Fatal Sleep

For 1,002 nights in a row, lawyer Li Ran has jolted awake at exactly 4:17 a.m. She thought the nightmares were a lingering trauma from a wrongful conviction, but then she discovered that her sleeping pills had been switched long ago and that she had been living through a secret human experiment that had lasted three years. To uncover the truth, she ventures alone into Yunqi, a place disguised as a sanctuary for healing. Underground cages, aerosolized sedatives, bone-conduction hypnosis, and brainwashed puppet-like patients: there is no healing here, only deadly sleep. She joins forces with survivors pushed to the brink, gathering evidence and deciphering coded messages inside a prison monitored at every turn, all while taking on the hypocritical doctor Zeng Yu. But Yunqi is only the tip of the iceberg. The Qingwu Healing Base and a bribed forensic institute soon emerge, and a thirty-year-old unsolved case in Linjiang resurfaces. The villains are experts at exploiting the law, using legal procedures to carry out psychological plunder. As the evidence gradually comes together, Li Ran realizes that ever since the lawsuit three years ago, she has been trapped in the game of a master strategist. The investigator herself was the perfect specimen her opponent had been waiting years for. When sleep becomes a shackle, staying awake is a crime. In the depths of despair, a group of people who refuse to succumb take up reason as their blade and declare war.