City of Undercurrents 1996

March 1996, G Province. At three o'clock in the morning, cleaner Lao Li discovered a female body in the ruins of an abandoned textile factory. The deceased was a 19-year-old girl, her hands were tied behind her back with a red rope, and she had a yellowed old food stamp in her mouth - with "1968" printed on it. Shi Zhengxi, deputy captain of criminal investigation, took over the case. As the investigation deepened, he discovered that the food stamp was numbered "00741" - a number that had never appeared in any circulation records. Why does a ticket that never existed appear in the mouth of a corpse? The investigation pointed to Lao Zhao in the archives, to the secretive events of the 1960s in Province G, and to Shi Zhengxi's own family secrets. At the same time, Zhang Yuanfei, a female reporter from the "Evening News", is also investigating the disappearance of her mother eighteen years ago - a food stamp left behind by her mother before she disappeared, with the number exactly "00740". The two threads converged in 1968. That year, an incident occurred in G Province that has been deliberately forgotten until now. Three people disappeared on the same night, and three consecutively numbered food stamps became invalid. And those who made all this with their own hands are still sitting at the top of power in this city thirty years later. Shi Zhengxi and Zhang Yuanfei worked together to dig out the truth, but found that the deepest darkness was not under the ruins, but in the heart of the city - those people in suits and ties, those who hold power, and those who shake your hand with a smile. To uncover the truth, the price they have to pay is far more than their own lives.