Money Reporter

Shen Yan, 25 years old, is an investigative reporter for the weekly "In-depth Observation" in Jiangzhou. On his twenty-fifth birthday, he received a letter from a lawyer. His father, Shen Chongshan, who had been missing for thirteen years, left him a trust fund of 50 million yuan - 5 million yuan a month, earmarked for special use. Money can only be spent on investigative reporting: buying leads, buying evidence, buying the silence of informants. But this money comes with two sets of shackles. One is called "write-off": each transfer must fill in the project name, and the project must be publicly published in "In-depth Observation" within three months, otherwise double deductions will be made. The other one is called the "truth tax": every time something is exposed, money will be deducted from the account based on the influence - the muddier the water, the more severe the deduction. The lawyer concluded: "This money is not for you, it is lent to you to investigate the case. Every payment must be repaid with the truth." Shen Yan began to use money to investigate the case. He discovered that in Jiangzhou, the truth was a business - some people offered 500,000 yuan to sell evidence of a human life, and some people spent 5 million yuan to let the manuscript die on the typesetting table. The size of the account quietly increased with the influence of each of his reports: from 5 million to 10 million, to 50 million, to no upper limit. The account is shrinking, the manuscript is being suppressed, and the cause of my father's death is like a thickening fog. Shen Yan finally understood that what his father left to him was not an inheritance, but a game - a game that used money to price the truth. But once the price is put on the truth, how long can this pen write? My father left a letter with only one sentence: Don't trust anyone who gives you money, including yourself. He didn't believe it. He wanted to find out who was giving him money behind these words.