The Missing Focus

Meng Xia has been a full-fledged criminal investigator for more than nine years. All this time, she has been pursuing the theft case from years ago, hoping to make up for the mistake she made back then. Just after resolving another theft case and returning home, she gets another call from the station: a woman named Qiu Jingya has died by suicide at Green Bamboo Garden. Fifteen days earlier, another residential community in Haizhu City saw a suicide in the same manner, with paper ash left at the scene as well. As the investigation proceeds, more deaths follow. Meng Xia carefully pieces together the clues, gradually uncovering the lives of women who have lost their balance. Just as her obsession made her forget her loved ones and commit an unforgivable mistake, the people in these serial cases have done the same. Some lost their humanity for money, some made grave mistakes by blindly following others, and some cast off moral restraint in their anger. At what moment did the scales of their lives begin to tip, sending them into a loss of balance from which there was no return?