[Crime investigation, suspense, ensemble cast]
[Strange folk-crime cases | Secrets from years past | A deadly fate spanning generations]
[High-stakes murder cases in every arc | No romance | A fractured ensemble confronts its foes]
“They pursue justice, yet live among the ruins of sins committed by the previous generation.”
In Nangang City, one unsolved case after another stirred the whole city. A civilian cold-case team quietly emerged.
[Gu Huaixu] Associate professor of criminal psychology
Twelve years ago, his mentor’s strange “suicide” left him obsessed with the truth, his determination sealed beneath a silver ring.
[Lin Shuangjiang] Archivist at the Local Gazetteer Museum
An inheritor of the family coroner tradition, she carries the stigma of her father being branded a “feudal fraud.”
[Chen Chuan] Top forensic pathologist
She deciphers the body’s secrets and has spent ten years searching for her persecuted younger sister.
[Xia Fanxing] Reclusive hacker
She digs for the truth in a sea of data, while her origins are tied to a shocking human-trafficking scandal.
All four carry deep trauma. Their clashing beliefs and mutual distrust leave them no choice but to work together.
[Psychological profiling | Traditional forensic methods | Decoding the body’s secrets | Tracing digital evidence]
Every crime scene bears a hidden ouroboros-and-scales mark.
As they follow the clues and dig deeper, a shocking secret comes to light.
Their fathers and mentors belonged, decades ago, to a secret vigilante organization called the “Balancers.”
They fought evil with evil, using extrajudicial punishment to judge the powerful.
The tragedies, obsessions, and fates of all four were part of a trap laid by those who came before them.
Will they repeat the past and fight darkness with darkness?
Or will they break the cycle, uphold the law, and tear apart the lies passed down from generation to generation?
Reason and folklore collide fiercely, trust repeatedly crumbles, and every volume plants clues to the main plot.
What is the truth?
