Lin Zhao, a criminal investigation technician, dies in a car crash on a stormy night. Someone had tampered with the brakes. After his death, he enters the Underworld Tribunal, an adjudication System between life and death, and becomes a “witness.” His task is to enter the dying memories of the dead, experience their final moments, uncover the truth, and deliver a complete testimony before the court. If his testimony is true, he earns days of rewind. If it is false, the backlash will strike.
From a high school girl who fell from a building to a farmer’s wife who drowned, from a secret room in a cult’s manor to a hospital ward embroiled in a pharmaceutical scandal, Lin Zhao and the lawyer Su Wan travel through one death instance after another. They gradually discover that every case points to the same name: the Lu Group, and the “Cleaner” controlling the Underworld Tribunal from behind the scenes. The deeper truth is even more chilling: twenty-three years ago, Shen Yi, the System’s designer, was trapped in the witness stand by the very System she created. And Lin Zhao’s fate is bound to hers by a connection deeper than death.
This is a journey of testimony that crosses the boundary between life and death. Physical evidence never lies, but people do. Lin Zhao will speak, one sentence at a time, the words every silent victim never got to say, and make the world hear them.
