Zhou Qiankun, a veteran who had forged an iron will in the military, joined the treacherous Discipline Inspection Commission of Huanglong County.
To his colleagues, he was the unfeeling “Cold-Faced Yama.” He had once slain corrupt official He Jing, but while investigating County Magistrate Li Daguang, he stumbled upon his wife’s sordid dealings with the powerful. Then he was framed for taking bribes, and overnight he went from enforcing discipline to becoming a prisoner.
When the stolen money under his bed and the compromising videos on his phone became swords hanging over his head, when the greed of his once-virtuous wife and mother-in-law was laid bare, and when his immediate superior used Li Daguang’s suicide to force him out, Zhou Qiankun finally understood: beneath the muddy waters of the political arena, a tangled web had long since taken root.
Just as he was about to head into the countryside and fend for himself, a phone call suddenly changed his fate.
The Discipline Inspection Commission’s blade may have been temporarily dulled, but a soldier’s blood and principles had never gone out.
