Twelve years ago, his father Lin Xuan and Lin Shen's twin younger brother fell to their deaths on a mountain road. The case was hastily ruled a one-sided traffic accident.
A crucial voice recorder mysteriously disappeared, and the chain of evidence was deliberately torn apart. All that remained was half a work notebook, with seven cryptic names written at the end.
With their family shattered and their parents gone, the Lin siblings managed to grow up only with help from the twenty-five households in their old neighborhood.
At twenty-six, Lin Shen returned after eight years away.
He had worked as a mobile phone repair apprentice, an emergency room orderly, a law firm clerk, and an assistant with the traffic police, honing practical, hard-won skills.
With forty-three yuan in his pocket, he returned to the city that held the buried case.
There are no golden fingers here, no supernatural powers.
Lie detection through microexpressions, labor arbitration, digital forensics, accident liability, injury assessment, negotiation and game theory... Everything he relies on comes from knowledge and logic learned in the real world.
The neighbors had once shown his family the smallest kindness. Now, every household was mired in trouble.
Loan-sharking schemes, collapsing P2P Ponzi schemes, corruption in old-neighborhood redevelopment, and one street-level scam after another came crashing down on them.
Lin Shen is no saint, and he doesn't act on impulse. He doesn't pity the helpless. He believes only in evidence and the law, and he tackles each crisis in turn.
Hanhai Capital has laid a vast web of traps. His opponents are full of tricks, and the capital game's every move hides deadly risks.
He doesn't rush into a fight. His fists are used only to stop harm in progress.
The negotiating table, the arbitration court, case files and archives: those are his battlegrounds.
The family motto still rings in his ears: A lamp is meant to light the way, not burn itself up.
When the two torn halves of the accident report are pieced together, the truth buried for twelve years will finally come to light
