Silent Undercurrents

A deafening blast rang out at the gates of Fuxing City Hall. Sixty-five-year-old Zhao Yunshan ended his life with a homemade bomb. The official report said he suffered from severe mental illness. The aftermath was handled swiftly, and compensation was paid that very night. Everything was taken care of properly, and public opinion remained calm. No one noticed that before the explosion, the old man had recorded a video.

By chance, the video fell into the hands of four strangers: Chen Lu, a reporter whose false report four years earlier about someone being falsely accused of helping an elderly person had ruined a young man's future; Gao Jin, the machine operator whose life she had destroyed; businessman Liu Xiaokun, who had been secretly searching for the benefactor who saved his life; and a female prosecutor determined to uncover the truth. These four people, who had never had anything to do with one another, began piecing together a puzzle spanning twenty years, all because of an old case that seemed to have nothing to do with them.

But as their investigation deepened, threats followed one after another. Their homes were ransacked, their cars tailed, witnesses beaten, and they were told to