Reflection of Evil

Three serial murders occurred in Haicheng. The dead were all ballet dancers. Gu Shen, a criminal psychology consultant, discovered that all the ways of death pointed to a dance drama that had never been staged. Five years ago, Gu Shen's fiancée drowned in a rehearsal hall in the same city. The water is less than twenty centimeters deep. The case remains unsolved, and that was his only profiling failure. The protagonist Gu Shen follows clues and traces a club called "Altar of Eros" deep in the dark web. There are people who turn murder into art, put a price on death, and design every crime scene into a work for viewing. The serial murders in Haicheng are nothing more than a "creative competition" between higher-level members of the club. Every time Gu Shen thought he was getting close to the truth, the truth would take a step back. And his memory of his fiancée's death is showing cracks that he can't even explain. The deepest malice is not to hide in the darkness, but to stand in front of the mirror and find that the person in the mirror seems familiar, but dare not confirm it. Gu Shen must find the answer before his memory completely collapses - is he chasing a murderer, or is he chasing a self he doesn't even know? Every murder is a mirror. When you stare at a murderer long enough, what's reflected in the mirror is yourself. Dark web, memory tampering, identity inversion, multi-layer inversion. You think you are chasing the murderer, but in fact you have been chased by yourself.