The Hidden X

The novelist Qiu Tong walked into the Luyang City Police Station and turned himself in, claiming that he had murdered He Lian and her son, who had been missing for days.

Detectives Ye Feng and Li Tao were assigned to investigate.

During questioning, Qiu Tong confessed that the real culprit behind the murders of He Lian and her son was her husband, Niu Bo.

Qiu Tong and He Lian had been college classmates and each other's first love. He Lian's current husband, Niu Bo, had always abused her. Unable to endure it any longer, she had no choice but to ask Qiu Tong for help, hoping to escape her husband's clutches.

But along the way, Niu Bo and his accomplices seized them. On a cliff, Niu Bo forced Qiu Tong to push He Lian and her son over the edge. He watched his former lover fall into the sea, where black waves churned below.

But Ye Feng, who was skilled at reading people, suspected Qiu Tong was hiding something about the case. Though he insisted that Niu Bo was the "real culprit," his behavior clearly suggested he was trying to downplay his own guilt, conceal his mistakes, and even make himself look better. Li Tao, who had been abused by his biological father as a child, considered the abuser Niu Bo the most suspicious suspect and began investigating him in secret on his own.

For a time, truth and lies were impossible to distinguish. They became entangled, and the fate of He Lian and her son turned into an impenetrable, inscrutable haze, a Rashomon-like mystery.