Phoenix of Fire

Late one night in the winter of 1987, an arson incident occurred in the courtyard of an agricultural machinery factory in Yuanchuan County. The house of the factory director was burned down and collapsed, killing the factory director. Chang Rong, his neighbor to the south, was also killed by a wooden rafter that was torn down by the fire. After on-site investigation and autopsy, it was determined that it was a major arson case! After investigation, it was found that the secretary of the Agricultural Machinery Factory and the deceased had a conflict over the room allocation; moreover, the driver made two mistakes while driving, and the factory director wanted to replace him; Hou Xiaokui had been pursuing the factory director's daughter, Chunge, and was humiliated when he proposed to Gu's house twice. On the night of the incident, Hou Zeng went to the back window of Gu's house and shouted Chunge after drinking. There was a kind of footprint at the scene which was identified as being left by Hou Xiaokui. Deputy Director Luo, who is in charge of criminal investigation, has just retired from the second line, and criminal police captain Zhou Ruojie is the best successor. He was eager to solve the case, and when all kinds of information about Hou Xiaokui were gathered to him, Hou Xiaokui was detained criminally. Ouyang Jian raised an objection to Captain Zhou. Zhou argued on the basis of five suspicions about Hou Xiaokui and submitted the case file to the procuratorate for arrest. Soon, the prosecutor's office returned the case on the grounds that the facts were unclear. After listening to Ouyang Jian's analysis of the case, Director Fang felt that this was a wrong case and immediately transferred the original investigators and reorganized his forces to investigate the case. One Sunday afternoon, Ouyang Jian found the same type of "water cup" in the office of his classmates at the sports school, and used this as a clue to finally solve the case. The culprits were actually her and him!