When a loved one turns into an unsolved case number, someone spends eleven years writing despair into a missing person notice.
When Li tide was fourteen, the family fell apart. In court, she chose to follow her cheating father, but in her heart she sentenced her mother and brother to life imprisonment. It wasn't until the bad news came that her mother had fallen from a building and her brother was missing that she realized that she had become a "relic" - alive but with nowhere to go.
Lu Youfeng's childhood ended at the age of five. His younger brother Lu Wu disappeared out of thin air in the hospital, leaving only a rusty biscuit box and a pile of numbered files. In eleven years, he grew from a boy to a teenager, turned his despair into a criminal investigation report, and stubbornly searched for the identity of an "elder brother" in the darkness.
Two people left behind in the ruins of fate became step-brothers and sisters in a reorganized family. He showed her the files he had accumulated over eleven years to find his younger brother, and she recognized the same hands that abducted her younger brother in the files he compiled.
So they stood side by side——
He stood in front of her before the violence, and she lit up the clues before the trafficking network.
He taught her: "Be sensible, sober, calm, and take care of yourself."
She replied to him: "You are not alone."
When the brother who has been missing for many years appears under another name and in another life;
When unsolved cases spanning fourteen years are tracked together;
When the perpetrators are finally judged, the survivors learn to bloom on the scars——
They finally understand:
Family is not inevitable by blood, but the glimmer of light that identifies each other in the darkness.
Love is not a miracle of redemption, it is two wounded people deciding to bandage their wounds together and move on.
This is an eleven-year search and a two-way rush towards the light.
Purpose: Rebuilding in the brokenness, walking together in the dark night - blood is not the only family, choosing each other is.