——When the stars fall, there are always people guarding the ashes looking for the remaining warmth.
The sky in H City is always shrouded in haze, like an old scar that cannot be removed. In the dark corners of this city, sin spreads silently like mold that grows in damp places.
Xia Yan of the Criminal Investigation Detachment has been troubled by several difficult cases recently. First, a body that died mysteriously was found in the locust forest. During the investigation, the old grudges about child labor in the toy factory ten years ago were revealed, and there seemed to be a complicated web of interests hidden behind it. Then, the bloody police uniforms unearthed at the flea market pointed to the dusty paintings in the art gallery and the missing police officers. These seemingly unrelated things are actually inextricably linked.
On the way to pursue the truth, strange corpse cases, mysterious missing persons cases, and confusing secret room murder cases come one after another. At the scene of the corpse case, the body parts of the deceased were brutally cut up and scattered around the city, with a strange digital code left next to each limb; in the case of missing persons, the missing persons disappeared without warning, and they only received an anonymous phone call before disappearing; in the case of secret room murder, the victim died in a sealed room, with the doors and windows intact. There were no traces of a fight at the scene, only strange symbols written in blood on the wall.
From the fire in the locust forest to the secret room of the art museum, from the faded account books to the blood-stained police uniforms, to the digital code of the mutilation case, the anonymous phone number of the disappearance case, and the mysterious symbols of the secret room case, they chased the fragments of the truth into the darkness, but they felt the warmth of each other - it was the birthday wontons given by Xia Yan when he picked the lock, Lu Chen's back that blocked him when the mine exploded, and the photo of two pairs of young hands overlapping in the old case file.
It turns out that some stars fall, but they will light up again in the eyes of another person.
This is a pursuit that spans ten years, about crime and punishment, about promises that have been betrayed, and about how two people side by side in the darkness use each other's light to piece together the truth in the ashes into a complete starry sky.
Purpose: Using the cases that span ten years as a mirror, it reflects the game of crime and punishment, the entanglement of truth and lies, and also focuses on the bond between the two pursuers to redeem each other in the dark - even if the past is like ashes and the promises are covered in dust, there are still people who use faith as a torch to touch the temperature of humanity in the texture of the case, allowing the glimmer of justice to penetrate the long night, so that every betrayed soul can wait for the echo.