1998, Hong Kong.
The financial crisis has swept through Victoria Harbour, and the city under the neon lights is half decent and half dirty.
Cen Xubai is the youngest senior investigation director of the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Her faith is engraved in her bones, and the search warrant in her hand is her knife. The people she checked ranged from wealthy businessmen to high-ranking police superintendents, and no one slipped through the cracks.
Until she met Zhan Lin.
The real talker of the Zhan Group is a person who no one dares to mess with in the darkness of Hong Kong Island. On the surface, it is a decent consortium of real estate, shipping and finance, but secretly it controls half of the city's gray business. Vicious, melancholy, and bottomless, smiling makes people more hairy than not smiling.
She wanted to find out his crime.
He said, OK, I'll wait for you to check.
On the day the search warrant was taken on the executive desk, he looked at the photo on her work ID and said slowly: Investigator Cen, if you can't find anything, you have to give me an explanation. [Investigator Cen, if you can't find anything, you have to give me an explanation. ]
She thought it was a cat catching a mouse.
Later I found out that the mouse was willing to wait for the cat to catch him - he wanted to use her hand to get rid of people who were dirtier than him.
But he missed one thing.
He will fall in love with her. And she will, too.
ICAC investigators and gray power lords are natural enemies. The heartbeat is original sin from the first second. Between legal principles and personal relationships, which side should she stand on?
He was willing to be caught, but he refused to let go.
It rained all night in Victoria Harbor, and no one knew the answer.
Intention: The game between legal principles and personal feelings, the pull between faith and love. In the gray area, there are still people who choose to stand in the light; and those who choose to stand in the dark may not all be in darkness. Sin and love are never black or white, and the ending is left to each reader to judge for themselves.