[A thousand-year-old ancestor spends every day finding new ways to die.]
Li Nantian, a new forensic examiner at the city bureau, is aloof, fussy, and sharp-tongued. He’s always spot-on when examining corpses, yet in private he keeps trying to slit his wrists, poison himself, or freeze himself to death.
No one knows he’s a monster who has lived for a thousand years. He’s mastered ancient forensic techniques and is immune to every poison, yet he sees immortality as a curse and wants only to find a way to escape it.
Then one eerie murder case after another begins to surface.
A staged suicide by falling from a height, a dismembered body on a rainy night, a string of “natural deaths” at a nursing home… Hidden traces of drug testing and an ancient acupuncture technique on the corpses form a tightening net. A “longevity” organization that has slept underground for a thousand years is using living people in its schemes, closing in step by step to force him out of hiding and seize his blood of immortality.
“You don’t want to live, but we’ll make sure you live on as medicine.”
Captain Fang Beimo of the criminal investigation team initially thinks the new forensic examiner is creepy and impossible to deal with. Later, he realizes the man is always sporting fresh injuries that make no sense, looks at life and death as if flipping through an old newspaper, and keeps throwing himself into the flames when no one is watching.
Fang Beimo covers for him on surveillance footage, alters reports, and drags him back from the abyss like a madman.
“I can’t stop you from wanting to die, but you can’t keep jumping into the fire while acting like you couldn’t care less!”
A thousand-year night, cold bones chilled to the core.
Li Nantian thought that all that remained of his long life was bidding people farewell, until someone took hold of his knife and shielded him from the storm.
“When you don’t want to live, I’ll stay by your side and see it through. When you want to live, I’ll be there to see what comes next.”
