A student is murdered, and the truth is buried. A USB drive draws teacher Wang Jianfei into the case...
A vast conspiracy built on forged DNA reports used as false evidence, bodies switched to conceal the truth, and power woven into an impenetrable web.
He runs, he hides, and he risks his entire family's lives to hunt down the killer. Only on the night they exhume the coffin to gather evidence does he realize that he was never the hunter, just a pawn.
The real player sits in the very position he has spent half his life looking up to, using his life to make one final move.
The Pursuit: How a small, ordinary man smashes his own chessboard in a game of power.
Theme: When power weaves a net that covers the sky, an ordinary person stakes his life as a pawn to break the game. In a fate that seems set in stone, he relies on the principles of decency to smash the chess player's board.
