Yan Zhiyu

A falling case from a villa on the outskirts of the city closely intertwined the fates of ace detective Lin Yan and famous architect Shen Zhiyan. The deceased was a real estate tycoon who had been involved in a demolition murder case but escaped unscathed. The scene seemed to be a perfect suicide, but Lin Yan smelled traces of homicide from an unusual shoe print and a backwards-opened architectural mechanics book. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that the suspect points to the gentle and elegant Shen Zhiyan - ten years ago, Shen Zhiyan's sister committed suicide after being sexually assaulted by a powerful man, but the murderer went unpunished due to lack of evidence. Now those who die in "accidents" are all "evil people" who escaped punishment back then. Lin Yan approached Shen Zhiyan in the name of investigating the case, and the two saw each other's loneliness in their confrontations: Lin Yan was trapped by the constraints of procedural justice, while Shen Zhiyan was obsessed with lynching trials. They are detectives and murderers with opposing positions, but they see similar struggles in each other's eyes. When Shen Zhiyan frankly showed how he used architectural structures and light and shadow angles to design a seamless "accident", when Lin Yan held the evidence but was shaken by the justice that has not been served by the law, this battle about truth and trial has long gone beyond simple crime and punishment. In the end, caught between the law and humanity, how will they bring this "design" to an end in the name of justice?