The Sound of Embers

The autopsy room and criminal investigation team of Jiangcheng Public Security Bureau are separated by a short corridor, but it seems to straddle the boundary between life and death. The twenty-four-year-old criminal police officer Shuang Yanxu always knocks on the heavy door at dawn, waiting for the twenty-one-year-old forensic doctor Lu Qingtang inside to raise his head - her cold eyebrows are stained with the smell of formalin, and her fingertips still have the strength to suture the corpse, but when she sees Shuang Yanxu, there are ripples in her pupils that no one else has ever seen. They are sisters in name only, and their fate began with the fire that devoured everything twelve years ago. When the old building of Shuang Yanxu's house collapsed in the flames, Lu Qingtang was wandering out out of anger. When he looked back, he only saw the light of the sky and the injured Shuang Yanxu in the arms of his adoptive parents. That disaster took away Shuang Yanxu's parents, but the fate of the two girls was closely intertwined. Lu Qingtang became a forensic doctor, looking for the truth on the cold corpse, as if to make up for the guilt of not being present that year; Shuang Yanxu put on a police uniform, used action to fight the darkness, and instinctively protected Lu Qingtang behind him. However, when they inspected the scene side by side again and again, they found that this "sister's care" had already deteriorated. In the charred corpse case at the chemical plant, Lu Qingtang identified the real culprit from the subtle scars on the deceased's bones, and Shuang Yanxu blocked the flying glass for her during the pursuit; the victims of the serial murder case all wore the same tail ring on their fingertips, Lu Qingtang touched the cold skin on the autopsy table, and Shuang Yanxu always subconsciously rubbed his knuckles when squatting in the bar - where Lu Qingtang had once grasped tightly when he was nervous. The victim of a transnational smuggling case lost his kidneys. The two followed the clues to the dock. In the shadow of the container, Shuang Yanxu kissed Lu Qingtang for the first time, with the saltiness of the sea and the trembling of not knowing where to go. Captain Zhang's acquiescence, Wen Jingran's reminder, and the adoptive parents' acceptance ranging from shock to sighing, could not stop this relationship from growing wildly on the edge of taboo. But the flames left not only scars, but also the paranoia and uneasiness in Lu Qingtang's bones, and Shuang Yanxu's inability to help himself when facing the darkness. When Lin Hao's knife cut through Shuang Yanxu's carotid artery, Lu Qingtang was holding the scalpel, looking for the last clue he left on another corpse. The moment the blood filled the white coat, she finally understood that some wounds could never be closed, just like the fire that burned away the past was destined to burn away the phantom called "home" they spent the rest of their lives putting together. The light at the end of the corridor flickered on and off, as if words had never been spoken between them. One is looking for evidence of survival in death, and the other is guarding the warmth of dying while alive, but in the end they both become the hottest and most scorching embers in the other's life. Intent: Forbidden emotions breed in professional bonds and the shadow of fire, and eventually become an embers that cannot start a prairie fire.