Scapegoat 2026

Are people who are treated as trash really worthless? Chen Mo, 47 years old, is a former accountant of a construction company. He was designed to take the blame, be fired, get divorced, go into debt, and be treated as "trash" by everyone. On a stormy high seas boat, he woke up from vomiting and found strangulation marks on his wrists and a note in his pocket that said "Scapegoat". Someone is asking him to "die as a scapegoat." He returned to land and found himself in the news as the only suspect in the murder of real estate developer Lin Zhaohui. The timeline doesn't match up. He retrieved the ledger he had hidden in his mattress five years ago and found that the numbers at the end were regular - three "material payments" matched the sequence of an offshore account. He realized that the five years of depravity were all designed by others, and the "waste" label itself was the reason for being selected. He discovered that the "deceased" rich man's account was still moving money after his death - the murder did not exist at all. And his former apprentice Zhou Ziheng was the mastermind behind all this. On a tower crane at a construction site on a rainy night, a forty-seven-year-old accountant used an old calculator to calculate the counterweight, defeating the thirty-three-year-old Violence with numbers. In the end, he got the evidence to clear his name, but chose not to make it public. He disappears into the storm with a new identity—no longer a scapegoat, but his own shepherd.