Chapter Summaries

On his first day at the Xiguan Detachment, Wang Yue tried to learn more about the 714 warehouse shooting but found that officials would not share details and the nearby surveillance footage had been overwritten. He also examined a family murder case, took Chen Rui into his care, and ended the day proposing a police recognition and warning system to Old Master Wang.

• Wang Yue asked school guards to watch Chen Rui, then visited Zhao Xincheng, who described a shadow leaving the 714 warehouse but offered no useful clues.
• After learning that Qin Chi was investigating the murder of a family of four, Wang Yue questioned the crime scene evidence and pointed out that the family photograph might suggest tensions between Wu Xiaoyun and the others.
• Wang Yue asked Hu Yibiao who was investigating the 714 case, then searched archived surveillance footage but found no usable recordings.
• Wang Yue asked Xiao Li for ten years of major case files and read them until Chen Rui called for a ride home.
• Wang Yue brought Chen Rui to Old Master Wang's compound, arranged for her to stay there, and tutored her before returning to the case files.
• Wang Yue told Old Master Wang about Chen Rui and proposed an automated recognition and early warning system, which Old Master Wang agreed to help test.

Wang Yue challenged the handling of Qin Chi’s appointment and the stalled 714 Case investigation, then discovered he was being followed after work. He confronted the masked pursuer near the warehouse, but the attacker fired a gun and grazed Wang Yue’s shoulder.

• Lu Mingjia brought Wang Yue preliminary findings on the Zheng Family massacre, and Wang Yue agreed with Qin Chi’s suspicion that Wu Xiaoyun might have been the killer.
• At a meeting about Qin Chi’s fitness to serve as deputy detachment leader, Wang Yue challenged the officials for scrutinizing Qin while neglecting the mysterious figure and the 714 Case.
• Wang Yue demanded information about the 714 Case warehouse, but Director Lu refused to provide details, and Wang Yue stormed out.
• Wang Yue asked Xia Yutong whether psychological suggestion could make someone commit crimes, and she dismissed the idea as something from novels.
• After work, Wang Yue noticed a car following him, avoided Chen Rui’s school, and drove to the 714 Case scene to confront the pursuer.
• The masked attacker dodged Wang Yue’s ambush and fought him with a knife; when Wang Yue kicked the dagger away, the attacker fired and grazed his shoulder.

Wang Yue survived an armed attack at the warehouse linked to Case 714 and believed the assailant was connected to the case’s third group. After revealing a painful possibility about Chen Rui’s parents, he returned to the Wang family estate, where Old Master Wang advised him to stay the course; Wang Yue expected the attack would clear the way for him to investigate Case 714.

• Wang Yue escaped a gunman at the warehouse, then called Qin Chi to report the attack and request an investigation of the scene and the assailant’s car.
• Wang Yue told Qin Chi he suspected the third group in Case 714 had followed him, and said he had DNA evidence and could identify the attacker’s appearance.
• Wang Yue left Qin Chi in charge and drove to Chen Rui’s school to pick her up.
• Wang Yue told Chen Rui that her parents may have been kidnapped and killed because of Chen Xi’s underworld connections, and Chen Rui returned to the Wang estate and cried in her room.
• Wang Yue told Old Master Wang about the attack and Chen Rui’s discovery; Old Master Wang urged him to stay the course, and Wang Yue expected to face no more objections to investigating Case 714.

Wang Yue and Qin Chi tracked down Cheng Yan, who had threatened Qin Chi over a recording connected to Chen Xi and the warehouse. As Cheng Yan began to reveal the mastermind, a sniper fired, leaving his fate unknown.

• Wang Yue asked Su Yong to question A Hai about why Chen Xi had come to Jingang and warn him that Chen Xi’s men might be targeted.
• Qin Chi told Wang Yue that the car used in the assassination attempt had been found abandoned with fake plates, and that his firearm application had been rejected.
• Qin Chi played Wang Yue a recording in which an unknown caller demanded that he retrieve something Chen Xi and his men had left in the warehouse.
• Wang Yue traced the caller to Cheng Yan and went with Qin Chi to a park, where they chased and cornered him.
• Cheng Yan accused Qin Chi of pretending to have lost his memory and began to identify the mastermind, but a gunshot rang out and Wang Yue kicked him aside as Qin Chi sought cover.

Wang Yue and Qin Chi encountered Cheng Yan and a gunman trying to silence him, and Wang Yue captured the attacker after Cheng Yan was killed. The police connected the gunman to the 714 Case, and Wang Yue told Guan Hongfeng that he believed the attacker was the person who had fled that crime scene.

• Wang Yue retrieved his bow and arrows as the gunman rushed to shoot Cheng Yan again, but the attacker fired a fatal shot before Wang Yue could stop him.
• Wang Yue shot the gunman repeatedly, pinning arrows in his limbs and hand until he dropped his weapon, then kept watch while Qin Chi summoned the police team.
• Qiu Dongyang and other officers arrived, and technicians reported that the gunman had fired nine rounds and had an unhealed dagger wound on his right arm.
• Wang Yue explained to Hu Yibiao and Qiu Dongyang that he and Qin Chi had come to question Cheng Yan about the 714 Warehouse Shooting and that the gunman had tried to silence him.
• Guan Hongfeng and Zhou Xun arrived, and Wang Yue described how the attacker had killed Cheng Yan and insisted on finishing him off.
• Guan Hongfeng asked whether the gunman was the person Zhao Xincheng had seen fleeing the 714 Case, and Wang Yue said he believed he was.

Wang Yue and Qin Chi kept Jiang Huai, a suspected Case 714 accomplice, in custody while they tried to draw out the hidden boss. Chen Rui recognized the bat tattoo on Jiang Huai and asked to visit a kind older brother from her childhood, though she could not yet remember where she had seen the man.

• Guan Hongfeng left with Captain Zhou after the suspect was murdered, while Wang Yue and Qin Chi discussed the possibility that the killer had returned to finish off the wounded at the 714 warehouse.
• Wang Yue, Qin Chi, and Hu Yibiao took the wounded suspect back to the Xiguan Detachment, where technicians identified him as Jiang Huai, a retired boxer and fugitive.
• The captains arranged to keep Jiang Huai at the detachment, search for his contacts, and wait for the boss behind him to make a move; Jiang Huai refused to speak during interrogation.
• Wang Yue told Chen Rui that Jiang Huai might be connected to Case 714, and she became interested when she saw his image on the local news.
• Chen Rui recognized the bat tattoo on Jiang Huai and said she thought she had seen him when she was little, then asked Wang Yue to let her visit a kind older brother the next day.

Wang Yue learned from Peng Peng how Chen Rui’s parents were killed and why Chen Xi had returned to Jingang, then arranged to keep Chen Rui safe while investigating Gong Yongnian. The chapter left Wang Yue planning to reopen the nine-year-old case as he drove Chen Rui home with her new puppy.

• Wang Yue took Chen Rui to the dog market, where they ran into Peng Peng.
• Peng Peng told Wang Yue and Chen Rui that arms dealers had killed Chen Rui’s parents after Jiang Huai blocked Chen Xi’s attempt to trade drugs for them, and that Chen Xi had returned to seek revenge on Jiang Huai and his boss, Gong Yongnian.
• Peng Peng revealed that his former boss’s surname was Gong, and Wang Yue persuaded him to report any major underworld activity because Gong Yongnian might target him or Chen Rui.
• Peng Peng bought Chen Rui a golden retriever puppy, and Wang Yue left with her after learning more about the nine-year-old stadium case.
• Wang Yue warned Chen Rui to stay home and said he would reopen her parents’ case to find leads and draw Gong Yongnian out.
• As Wang Yue drove Chen Rui home, she remembered seeing him outside a Western restaurant before but did not tell him.

Wang Yue solved the old gymnasium shootout case but found no lead to Gong Yongnian, then began investigating whether information about Case 714 had leaked from the Xiguan Detachment. He asked Feng Xiao to check the finances of the barbecue shop owners across from the station, suspecting an outsider might have passed along confidential details.

• Wang Yue inspected the gymnasium and suspected Gong Yongnian had arranged the meeting to obtain evidence against the Xishan gang and might have been behind Chen Xi's parents' deaths.
• Wang Yue arrested Yuan Zhenhua, who confessed to providing the gymnasium for the deal and helping clean up afterward, but the case only added another crime to Jiang Huai's record.
• Su Yong told Wang Yue that Chen Xi had been waiting for Cheng Yan to notify him about a deal and warned that the timing of the warehouse operation suggested information might have leaked from the Xiguan Detachment.
• Wang Yue learned that officers had eaten at the barbecue shop across from the station before heading to the warehouse and worried that its owner, Liu Hanshen, could have learned confidential details.
• Wang Yue asked Feng Xiao to investigate the finances of Liu Hanshen, his wife, and their son, preferring to investigate outsiders rather than immediately suspect someone inside the detachment.

Wang Yue uncovered suspicious ties between Liu Mi and the dead loan shark Cheng Yan, suggesting the Liu family may have helped arrange the 714 Case. He recruited Hu Yibiao and Su Yong to test the family’s reaction, and Hu Yibiao was startled when Su Yong appeared disguised as Cheng Yan.

• Wang Yue learned from Feng Xiao that Chen Xi had received the timing of the warehouse operation only after arriving in Jingang, then traced Liu Mi’s suspicious loan from Cheng Yan.
• Wang Yue found two million yuan in an unclaimed safe deposit box under Cheng Yan’s name and sent his findings to Feng Xiao.
• Lu Mingjia reported that Lou Yi’s son might be involved in murder, corpse disposal, and drug trafficking, but declined Wang Yue’s request for help.
• Wang Yue told Hu Yibiao that Cheng Yan’s loan to Liu Mi could connect the Liu father and son to the 714 Case, and they planned to test their reaction by having someone impersonate Cheng Yan.
• Wang Yue recruited Su Yong for the plan, and Hu Yibiao climbed into their car without realizing Su Yong was disguised as Cheng Yan.
• Hu Yibiao saw Su Yong in the back seat and exclaimed that Cheng Yan was supposed to be in the morgue.

Wang Yue, Su Yong, and Hu Yibiao interrogated Liu Mi and recovered photographs of files implicating Gong Yongnian in the July 14 incident. They planned to use Liu Mi to lure in Liu Hansen, and the chapter ended with Wang Yue calling Liu Hansen and demanding that he come pick up his son.

• Su Yong impersonated Cheng Yan to frighten Liu Mi into revealing that he had taken Gong Yongnian's files from Xiao Lu.
• Hu Yibiao pressured Liu Mi, who said he had handed over the files but kept photographs in an email account.
• Wang Yue retrieved the clear photographs from Liu Mi's email and concluded the police could move against Gong Yongnian.
• Su Yong tied Liu Mi up while Wang Yue and Hu Yibiao planned how to summon Liu Hansen without alerting Gong Yongnian.
• Wang Yue called Liu Hansen using Liu Mi's phone and demanded that he come collect his son.

Wang Yue lured Liu Hansen to the No. 1 construction site and played Liu Mi’s recorded confession, prompting Liu Hansen to attack Qin Chi before Wang Yue subdued him. The aftermath left Qin Chi unconscious and Lu Mingjia misled at the detachment, while Hu Yibiao prepared to leave for the site with his own intentions still concealed.

• Liu Hansen agreed to meet Wang Yue at the construction site and secretly brought Qin Chi and Lu Mingjia with him.
• Wang Yue arranged for Lu Mingjia to leave, then played Liu Mi’s recording implicating Liu Hansen in betraying the detachment and stealing files.
• Liu Hansen knocked Qin Chi down and tried to hit him with a brick, but Wang Yue intervened and beat Liu Hansen unconscious after Qin Chi also passed out.
• Wang Yue carried Qin Chi toward the hospital, while Su Yong tied up Liu Hansen and later questioned him with Hu Yibiao.
• Lu Mingjia went to the detachment after Hu Yibiao falsely warned him that Jiang Huai might be rescued, then learned Qin Chi was unconscious and headed to the hospital.
• After Lu Mingjia left, Hu Yibiao told the officers the situation could be a diversion and set out for the construction site.

Wang Yue pushed to secure city bureau support for an operation against Gong Yongnian while keeping Qin Chi hospitalized. At the same time, Su Yong and Hu Yibiao tricked Liu Hansen into revealing his knowledge of Gong Yongnian’s crimes, then Hu Yibiao exposed that their exchange had been recorded.

• Feng Xiao told Wang Yue that Liu Mi’s account was linked to Cheng Yan and that she had found two million in cash in a locked case.
• Wang Yue returned home and asked the Old Master to support a large-scale operation against Gong Yongnian; the Old Master agreed to submit the files and request assistance.
• Chen Rui told Wang Yue she hoped to study law at Qingcheng University, and the Old Master said Xishan would test Wang Yue’s planned police software.
• After Wang Yue left, Su Yong threatened Liu Hansen while posing as Cheng Yan, and Liu Hansen pleaded for his and his son’s safety by offering information about Gong Yongnian.
• Hu Yibiao arrived and pretended to arrest Su Yong, who left to take Liu Mi into custody; Hu Yibiao then handcuffed Liu Hansen.
• When Liu Hansen denied understanding why he was being arrested, Hu Yibiao revealed that he had recorded Liu Hansen’s conversation with Cheng Yan.

Wang Yue’s team pursued Gong Yongnian while trying to prepare a proper operation, but the search was interrupted when Fan Kai escaped from the hospital with the unconscious Qin Chi. Wang Yue and Qin Hao stopped Fan Kai near a chemical pool, and Qin Chi woke amid the rescue.

• Liu Mi and Liu Hansen confessed, and Wang Yue sent Hu Yibiao to question Gong Yongnian’s mistress while he directed Lu Mingjia to improve his skills and expedite the operation paperwork.
• Hu Yibiao questioned Jin Yan but learned nothing useful, so Wang Yue ordered the team to trace phone records and locate Gong Yongnian through proper channels.
• Feng Xiao told Wang Yue that Qin Chi had vanished from the hospital, and the officers soon discovered Fan Kai had escaped as well.
• Wang Yue tracked Fan Kai’s stolen car toward the chemical pool, where Qin Hao helped him intercept it and Fan Kai charged at them with Qin Chi trapped in the passenger seat.
• Wang Yue and Qin Hao shot Fan Kai as he tried to use Qin Chi as a hostage, and Xiao Zhao rammed Fan Kai’s car before Qin Hao freed Qin Chi.
• Qin Chi woke as Wang Yue pulled Fan Kai from the wrecked car, leaving Qin Chi awkwardly reunited with his father.

Jingang’s citywide cleanup operation arrested Gong Yongnian’s key associates, but Gong Yongnian lured Wang Yue and Hu Yibiao away from the Xiguan Detachment before attacking Su Yong’s safe house. Wang Yue, Qin Chi, and their allies held off the assault until reinforcements arrived and trapped Gong Yongnian’s remaining men.

• After Lu Mingjia filed his request, Jingang began a sweeping cleanup operation that arrested many of Gong Yongnian’s associates, though Gong Yongnian remained missing.
• Wang Yue realized the changing coordinates were drawing him and Hu Yibiao away from the Xiguan Detachment and suspected Gong Yongnian planned to attack elsewhere.
• Wang Yue rushed to Su Yong’s safe house, where he fought Gong Yongnian’s gunmen and discovered Qin Chi was defending the building.
• Su Yong arrived with Wang Yue’s bow and arrows, and Wang Yue used them to stop attackers from climbing into the building.
• Hu Yibiao and other field teams arrived, surrounded Gong Yongnian’s remaining men, and called for them to surrender.
• Gong Yongnian realized Qin Chi was not in the hospital and believed the ambush had been designed specifically for him.

Wang Yue helped dismantle Gong Yongnian’s criminal network, completed his identification software, and learned that Qin Chi had agreed to surgery. He comforted Chen Rui after her family’s funeral and cleared Peng Peng to leave his criminal past behind, while Peng Peng and Chen Rui considered what to do next.

• Wang Yue shot Gong Yongnian when the bandit leader exposed himself, and the Xiguan Detachment subdued the remaining men and arrested the suspects.
• Wang Yue completed his automatic identification software, and Su Yong took it to Xishan for Bureau Chief Zhou.
• Qin Chi hinted that Wang Yue had helped charities and Lou Yi’s school receive money recovered from Gong Yongnian’s overseas funds, while Hu Yibiao took on Liao Yong’s case.
• Hu Yibiao urged Qin Chi to have surgery, and Qin Chi agreed to get it done in a few days.
• Wang Yue comforted Chen Rui at her family’s graves, then told her he had come to ask her parents to entrust her to his care.
• Wang Yue told Peng Peng that his past offenses would be put behind him if he stayed out of the underworld, and Chen Rui said she hoped to study law at Qingcheng University.

Wang Yue helped Peng Peng leave the dog trade by buying a barbecue shop for him, then investigated the stabbing murder of lawyer Liu Haotian. The chapter ended when Peng Peng reported that Guan Hongfeng was unconscious and two suspicious men were dragging him into a building.

• Wang Yue offered to buy the barbecue shop near Xiguan Detachment so Peng Peng could run a legitimate business, and Old Master approved the plan.
• Wang Yue bought the shop and put it in Chen Rui's name, and Peng Peng opened the Old Friends Barbecue Shop across from the detachment.
• Liu Haotian was found stabbed to death in an alley, and Wang Yue began investigating whether the killer had mistaken him for his partner, Xue Dong.
• Lu Mingjia reported that Liu Haotian's wife had heard someone call out Xue Dong's name during their last phone call, and Wang Yue ordered the team to investigate their acquaintances, enemies, and movements.
• Peng Peng called Wang Yue to report that one of his men had found Guan Hongfeng unconscious near Shuguang Community while two suspicious men dragged him into Building Four.

Wang Yue and Lu Mingjia investigated a bloody scene in Shuguang Residential Community, where they found Guan Hongfeng unconscious beside a murdered family and two armed suspects had fled. Xiao Liuzi’s account that the streetlights went out before Guan collapsed led Wang Yue to suspect Guan suffered from a condition such as nyctophobia, and the investigation continued toward the Forensic Center.

• Wang Yue and Lu Mingjia rushed to Shuguang Residential Community after Peng Peng warned him that Xiao Liuzi had spotted trouble, and they encountered two masked men fleeing the area.
• The masked men shot at Wang Yue as he pursued them, so he used Time Reversal and returned to Building 4 rather than risk delaying help for Guan Hongfeng.
• Wang Yue and Lu Mingjia broke into Room 301 and found five people dead and Guan Hongfeng unconscious beside a dagger.
• Wang Yue called Hu Yibiao for backup, and officers prepared to secure the scene and take Guan to the Forensic Center for examination.
• Xiao Liuzi told Wang Yue that the streetlights had gone out just before Guan suddenly passed out, prompting Wang Yue to ask Lu Mingjia to contact Xia Yutong and consider whether Guan feared the dark.
• Wang Yue arranged to drop Xiao Liuzi at Xiguan Detachment before going with Guan to the Forensic Center.

Wang Yue learned that Guan Hongfeng had a severe fear of the dark rooted in Wu Lingling’s death, which could force him off active duty while Internal Affairs investigated the incident. With the Shuguang Complex murder case proving difficult, Wang Yue and Hu Yibiao moved to recruit Guan Hongfeng as an adviser for the Xiguan Detachment.

• Xia Yutong hypnotized Guan Hongfeng and confirmed that he had a severe fear of the dark stemming from guilt over Wu Lingling’s death.
• Wang Yue asked Xia Yutong to send her findings to the relevant departments, and she said Internal Affairs would need to be notified.
• Lu Mingjia reported that Director Liang had assigned Qiu Dongyang to investigate the case.
• Hu Yibiao reported that the Shuguang Complex suspects had likely been the killers, but poor lighting and a lack of cameras left few leads.
• Wang Yue and Hu Yibiao decided to bring Guan Hongfeng to the Xiguan Detachment as an adviser, and Lu Mingjia agreed to seek Director Lu’s support.

Guan Hongfeng joined the Xiguan Detachment and helped Wang Yue solve the attempted murder of Xue Dong by secretly watching him. After Gao Tiansheng was arrested for hiring the killer, Guan Hongfeng and Wang Yue headed to help Hu Yibiao with the other case.

• Guan Hongfeng arrived at the Xiguan Detachment, where Wang Yue and Hu Yibiao asked him to advise them on two active murder cases.
• Guan Hongfeng suggested secretly watching Xue Dong after withdrawing his visible protection detail, and Wang Yue disguised Guan Hongfeng by covering his scar.
• Wang Yue and Lu Mingjia caught a man in black attempting to kill Xue Dong at his villa.
• The investigation revealed that Gao Tiansheng had hired the killer because he resented Xue Dong for not helping him arrange an operation for his son.
• Guan Hongfeng explained that Gao Tiansheng's resentment came from his own narrow-minded expectations of friendship, and Wang Yue then went with him to help Hu Yibiao.

Wang Yue, Guan Hongfeng, and Hu Yibiao investigated Wu Zheng’s family’s murder and considered whether Wu Zheng had been an undercover officer connected to a plot against Guan Hongfeng and his brother. With surveillance footage yielding little, they pursued a clumsy but workable lead by identifying people near the crime scene and questioning them.

• Wang Yue arranged for Peng Peng to move informant Xiao Liuzi to Xishan for protection and asked Peng Peng’s people to discreetly monitor the case.
• Wang Yue, Guan Hongfeng, and Hu Yibiao suspected Wu Zheng might have been an undercover officer and considered whether criminals were targeting Guan Hongyu’s logistics company.
• The three officers visited Guan Hongyu, who said he had no dealings with Wu Zheng and explained that his logistics company had been founded with former comrades spread across the country.
• After finding no useful surveillance footage, Wang Yue proposed checking shops near Shuguang Residential Community and identifying people who had been there on Lunar New Year’s Eve.
• The Xiguan Detachment brought dozens of people in for questioning, and Guan Hongfeng and Hu Yibiao began handling the interviews as Wang Yue offered to learn from them.