In 1897, London was shrouded in the shadow of the "Iris Killer". The first deceased, Dr. Wilkin White, was found dead in the study, holding a blue iris tightly in his palm. Three weeks later, medical examiner Charles Burse was murdered in the autopsy room, with the same petals scattered across the wound in his throat.
Yu Jin, a mixed-race psychologist, was suspected of having contact with both deceased persons, but he showed a mysterious smile during the interrogation: "The reporter should be next." Sure enough, reporter Flair Bai was found dead in the newspaper office that night, with Iris pinned to the third fatal wound.
Detective Charles Lan has been calmly pursuing the murderer until he found a manuscript written by him among the reporter's belongings: "How to play another person perfectly". The last page contained a fresh irises - the same one Lan had pinned to her chest this morning.
Intent: In this world built of appearances and lies, the most dangerous enemy is not the obvious villain, but the narrator himself who we trust and represents reason and order. Through the extreme setting of "the detective is the murderer", the story tears apart the hypocritical respectability of the Victorian era and reveals the instability of identity and the cruel price paid for protecting secrets in the depths of human nature.