Recaps

Wang Cuihua tried to keep part of the money sent for Li Hu, but a man connected to Lin Feng made her deposit it all. At the detention center, Scar realized Lin Feng had arranged the money and offered to serve him.

• Wang Cuihua took the money to the bank and secretly set aside about half, intending to deposit the rest into Li Hu's account.
• A man in a blue cap called her sister-in-law and mentioned Brother Scar, frightening Wang Cuihua into depositing all the money.
• On visitation day, Wang Cuihua told Scar about the money and the man who had watched her at the bank.
• Scar connected the money and surveillance to Lin Feng, reassured Wang Cuihua, and told her to obey anyone connected to Lin Feng.
• Scar returned to cell 107, thanked Lin Feng, and offered to arrange anything he needed with the money in the account.

Lin Feng used money from his account to improve his living conditions in Cell 107, while Scar’s deference and the other prisoners’ rumors made him seem increasingly powerful. He waited for his next summons, Zheng Qi’s release from solitary confinement, and news from outside.

• Lin Feng told Scar to spend the account money on purchases for him while keeping the arrangement discreet.
• Scar arranged better meals for Lin Feng, selecting thicker porridge, more substantial vegetables, and a fresh steamed bun.
• Scar obtained cigarettes and basic toiletries for Lin Feng, who used the soap and lotion during washing time.
• Scar bragged to prisoners from other cells about Lin Feng’s resources, while guards largely overlooked Cell 107’s extra comforts.
• As the account money dwindled, Lin Feng waited for his next summons, Zheng Qi to finish solitary confinement, and news from outside.

Zhou Wenyuan offered to represent Lin Feng for free, and Lin Jianguo and Zhang Fen verified that he was a reputable lawyer before accepting his help. Zhou warned them that weak evidence and Officer Zhang Qian’s approach could keep Lin Feng detained for months, while Lin Feng ordered him to preserve the evidence and await his next plan.

• Zhou Wenyuan introduced himself to Lin Jianguo and Zhang Fen and offered to defend Lin Feng without charge.
• Lin Jianguo and Zhang Fen checked Zhou Wenyuan’s credentials and, convinced he was a respected lawyer, went to meet him at the Jin Jiang Hotel.
• Zhou played a recording in which Sun Tingting and her friend discussed framing Lin Feng, but explained that its legal flaws limited its usefulness as evidence.
• Zhou told Lin Jianguo and Zhang Fen that Officer Zhang Qian might prolong the investigation and keep Lin Feng in custody for more than half a year.
• Lin Feng spoke with Zhou through their mental connection, learned that counter-suing Sun Tingting and accusing Zhang Qian would be difficult, and ordered Zhou to preserve the evidence.
• Zhou promised to submit his appointment paperwork, request a meeting with Lin Feng, review the case files, and seek help shortening the process.

Lin Feng met with Zhou Wenyuan and his parents at the detention center, reassuring them and learning that his lawyer saw serious problems with the evidence. Zhang Qian cut the meeting short with a threat, but Zhou Wenyuan challenged her obstruction as Lin Feng returned to his cell.

• Zhou Wenyuan secured approval to meet Lin Feng after his initial request was rejected and the meeting was delayed for three days.
• Lin Feng reunited with Lin Jianguo and Zhang Fen behind glass, reassured them that he was safe, and listened as Zhou Wenyuan described the weaknesses in the case.
• Lin Feng sent Zhou Wenyuan their agreed signal, and Zhou Wenyuan promised to review the case file and protect Lin Feng's rights.
• Zhang Qian ended the meeting early and threatened Zhou Wenyuan with an inquiry into Lin Feng's treatment in detention.
• Zhou Wenyuan challenged Zhang Qian's interference, while Lin Feng reassured his parents before Officer Wang escorted him away.

Zhou Wenyuan used legal channels and personal connections to challenge the case against Lin Feng, while investigator Zhang Qian responded by trying to prolong his detention. Lin Feng accepted that his release might take months and began building an information network inside the detention center as he waited for an opportunity.

• Lin Feng noticed that Zhou Wenyuan's visit had raised his standing among the prisoners, and Scar spread rumors about the lawyer's influence.
• Zhou Wenyuan submitted a legal opinion challenging the evidence against Lin Feng and contacted officials and a legal newspaper to increase scrutiny of the case.
• Zhang Qian grew angry at the pressure on the investigation and planned to strengthen the case and extend Lin Feng's detention through supplementary investigations.
• Zhou Wenyuan told Lin Feng that a non-prosecution decision was possible but that the process could take more than half a year.
• Lin Feng asked Scar about influential prisoners and arranged for him to gather and pass along information from across the detention center.
• Lin Feng let Scar distribute gifts and cigarettes equally among the cellmates, gradually making cell 107 a hub for information and strengthening his influence.

Lin Feng endured a third interrogation by Zhang Qian, who tried to pressure him into confessing and threatened to prolong the investigation. After he calmly asked why she was so angry, she lost control and sent him back to his cell, leaving him convinced that her resolve was close to breaking.

• Officer Wang brought Lin Feng from Cell 107 to the interrogation room for another questioning by Zhang Qian.
• Zhang Qian confronted Lin Feng with his written confession and pressured him to admit guilt, invoking his future and his parents.
• When Lin Feng remained silent, Zhang Qian threatened supplementary investigations and said she would keep him detained until he broke.
• Lin Feng asked Zhang Qian why she was so angry, and the question made her recognize her own loss of composure.
• Zhang Qian ordered the young male officer to return Lin Feng to his cell, where Lin Feng believed her breaking point was near.

Lin Feng summoned prison guard Wang Lei and used him, along with outside agents, to gather intelligence on Deputy Supervisor Zhao Jianguo and his family. With Zhao’s daughter’s troubles identified as a possible opening, Lin Feng prepared a subtle way to approach the family and left the plan waiting for the right moment.

• Lin Feng summoned Wang Lei, a guard assigned to Cell Block Three, and ordered him to discreetly monitor Deputy Supervisor Zhao Jianguo.
• Wang Lei reported on Zhao’s work, his growing pressure from a standards inspection, and Zhang Qian’s meetings with the detention center director.
• Wang Lei used small opportunities to ease Lin Feng’s conditions, while Lin Feng sent Zhou Wenyuan and outside deathsworn to investigate Zhao’s family and connections.
• Wang Lei reported that Zhao’s daughter, Zhao Xiaoyu, was struggling at school and clashing with her parents, and that Zhao had recently refused a businessman’s request to favor a prisoner.
• After outside intelligence corroborated the reports, Lin Feng sought a natural way to approach Zhao’s family and ordered the search for a gentle woman with counseling or educational experience.

Liu Mei met Wu Man, a psychological counselor who listened to her troubles about her family and left her a business card. In the detention center, Lin Feng learned that Wu Man had made contact and planned another encounter near Xiaoyu’s school.

• Liu Mei shopped at Wanjiafu supermarket and sat alone with coffee, thinking about her strained relationship with Xiaoyu and Zhao Jianguo.
• Wu Man sat beside Liu Mei, comforted her, and introduced herself as a psychological counselor.
• Wu Man gave Liu Mei her business card and left, while Liu Mei kept it close and considered contacting her.
• Lin Feng received Wu Man’s report from the detention center and told her to wait for Liu Mei to contact her before arranging another encounter near Xiaoyu’s school.

After a furious clash between Zhao Xiaoyu and Zhao Jianguo left their family in crisis, Liu Mei called Wu Man for help. Wu Man explained the pressures of adolescent rebellion and suggested ways Liu Mei could reconnect with her daughter and work with her husband, leaving Liu Mei with a small measure of hope.

• Zhao Xiaoyu came home late smelling of smoke, fought fiercely with Zhao Jianguo, and shouted that she hated her family; Zhao Jianguo stormed out after punching the wall.
• Liu Mei called Wu Man in despair and told her about the argument and her worries for Zhao Xiaoyu.
• Liu Mei met Wu Man at a book café and described Zhao Xiaoyu's worsening behavior and Zhao Jianguo's strict, confrontational response.
• Wu Man explained how adolescent rebellion and Zhao Jianguo's command-driven habits could worsen the conflict, and advised Liu Mei to build communication with Zhao Xiaoyu and speak to Zhao Jianguo without blame.
• Wu Man reassured Liu Mei that their conversation was informal, and Liu Mei left with the details for a formal appointment and renewed hope.

Wu Man heightened Liu Mei’s fear about Zhao Xiaoyu staying out overnight and advised her to contact her daughter and unite with Zhao Jianguo over her safety. Lin Feng judged the family’s tensions ready for intervention and instructed Wu Man to suggest a professional family discussion.

• Zhao Xiaoyu left home for an overnight KTV outing and shoved Liu Mei aside when she tried to stop her.
• Liu Mei called Wu Man in a panic, and Wu Man warned that the outing could expose Zhao Xiaoyu to serious dangers.
• Wu Man advised Liu Mei to contact Zhao Xiaoyu, ask where she was, offer to pick her up, and seek Zhao Jianguo’s cooperation.
• Wang Lei told Lin Feng that Zhao Jianguo had been irritable at work after arguing on the phone with someone at home.
• Lin Feng instructed Wu Man to suggest an informal family discussion focused on safety boundaries the next time Liu Mei asked for help.

Lin Feng explained to Scar how unequal power made certain relationships immoral while secretly receiving information from Wang Lei’s perspective. Wang Lei pressured Zhao Jianguo into agreeing to give Lin Feng’s friend’s child better treatment by threatening to expose Zhao’s secrets.

• Lin Feng told Scar that relationships between people with unequal power were immoral because one party could control the other’s fate and emotions.
• Wang Lei asked Zhao Jianguo to improve the conditions of a friend’s child at the detention center and offered him an envelope.
• Zhao Jianguo rejected the bribe and warned Wang Lei not to try underhanded tactics.
• Wang Lei revealed that he knew Zhao had arranged a transfer for his nephew Little Li and hinted that Zhao’s medical-parole favor for an outside friend could damage his career.
• Zhao Jianguo accepted the envelope and asked for the young man’s name and cell number.

Wang Lei pressured Supervisor Zhao Jianguo into agreeing to give a prisoner a separate room by revealing his secret dealings with the director’s wife. Zhao Jianguo proposed an unused reading room and began planning how to arrange it.

• Zhao Jianguo asked Wang Lei for the prisoner’s name and cell number after agreeing to improve the prisoner’s conditions.
• Wang Lei asked Zhao Jianguo for a quiet, private separate room, prompting Zhao Jianguo to angrily refuse.
• Wang Lei revealed that he knew Zhao Jianguo had given the director’s wife a VIP card for the Tranquil Mind Garden.
• Zhao Jianguo understood that Wang Lei could expose his secret dealings and reluctantly agreed to help.
• Zhao Jianguo led Wang Lei to the detention center floor plan and suggested an unused reading room for the prisoner.

Lin Feng was moved from Cell 107 to a luxurious private room disguised as a storage room, where he used unrestricted internet access to coordinate his case and intelligence operations. He made the room his new command center as his plans against his remaining targets advanced.

• Officer Wang took Lin Feng to a secluded room labeled as an old storage room and locked him inside.
• Lin Feng found a clean private cell equipped with a bed, laptop, phone, and toiletries, and Wang Lei told him Supervisor Zhao had arranged it.
• Wang Lei brought Lin Feng a restaurant meal, and Lin Feng told him to report any outside news.
• Lin Feng checked for news about Sun Tingting, Li Jing, and Zhang Qian, then coordinated with Zhou Wenyuan to advance the case using Zhao Jianguo's connections.
• Lin Feng sent orders through the Deathsworn Network to intensify surveillance and intelligence gathering on the remaining targets.

Under pressure over the weak case against Lin Feng, Zhang Qian met Sun Tingting and proposed fabricating stronger evidence to secure a conviction. Sun Tingting secretly recorded the conversation as Zhang detailed the plan.

• Zhang Qian worried that the evidence against Lin Feng was too weak to support a conviction and that pressure from Zhou Wenyuan and higher-ups was growing.
• Zhang Qian decided to meet Sun Tingting and use her to strengthen the case.
• Zhang Qian met Sun Tingting at a café and persuaded her that they needed to stand together against Lin Feng.
• Sun Tingting secretly started recording after suspecting Zhang Qian's proposal might not be lawful.
• Zhang Qian described how they could coordinate their accounts and fill gaps in the evidence against Lin Feng.

Sun Tingting posted a tearful video accusing Lin Feng of molesting her in the Municipal Normal University library, and online outrage surged after the Safe City Bureau discussed a similar case in a legal education video. The story left Lin Feng and his family doxxed and targeted as the online mob spread their private information and abuse.

• Sun Tingting uploaded a video accusing Lin Feng of groping her in the university library and claimed her complaint had stalled.
• Viewers shared the video, condemned Lin Feng, and attacked people who urged caution while some began cursing his family.
• The Safe City Bureau posted a legal education video mentioning a similar ongoing case, which netizens treated as official confirmation of Sun Tingting's accusation.
• The accusation became a trending topic, drawing influencers and independent media accounts eager to profit from the attention.
• Netizens illegally exposed Lin Feng's personal details and his family's workplaces and address, then flooded them with abuse and threats.

Lin Feng learned that his trial had been set for three days and tried to understand why Zhang Qian had suddenly accelerated the case. Unaware of the public-opinion storm outside, he trusted his evidence and lawyer to secure his release as the storm closed in.

• Wang Lei told Lin Feng that the court had scheduled his trial in three days.
• Lin Feng contacted deathsworn watching Zhang Qian and learned she had privately met Sun Tingting, who went home afterward and remained inside.
• Lin Feng could not determine why Zhang Qian had expedited the trial and did not know about the public-opinion storm outside.
• Lin Feng told Wang Lei to keep things running as usual and prepared to face trial, confident in Zhou Wenyuan and his evidence.

Zhang Qian reassured Sun Tingting about the upcoming trial and disclosed her close relationship with the judge, believing she had secured Tingting’s cooperation. After the call, Sun Tingting revealed that she had recorded the conversation and planned to keep it as leverage.

• Zhang Qian called Sun Tingting the victim and dismissed online criticism as a tactic by Lin Feng’s family.
• Sun Tingting voiced doubts about their plan, and Zhang Qian promised the judge was her close friend and would handle the case impartially.
• Zhang Qian instructed Sun Tingting to appear frightened and wronged at trial while remaining firm.
• After ending the call, Sun Tingting stopped her recording and saved the conversation, including Zhang Qian’s remarks about the judge.
• Sun Tingting considered using the recording against Zhang Qian if she failed to help her win.

Lin Feng’s criminal trial began, and he denied assaulting Sun Tingting while explaining that he had written the letter of repentance under pressure from Teacher Li Jing. Presiding Judge He Jing cut off his explanation and rejected Zhou Wenyuan’s objection, leaving the defense facing a hostile courtroom.

• Presiding Judge He Jing opened the trial and ordered Lin Feng to stand for identity verification.
• Prosecutor Chen Ming read the indictment, accusing Lin Feng of forcibly indecent acts against Sun Tingting.
• Lin Feng denied the charge and said Teacher Li Jing had urged him to write the letter of repentance to resolve the matter.
• Chen Ming questioned Lin Feng about the letter, and Lin Feng began explaining the circumstances in which he wrote it.
• Presiding Judge He Jing interrupted Lin Feng and rejected Zhou Wenyuan’s objection to the restriction on his testimony.
• Lin Feng answered “No” when asked whether he acknowledged the letter’s contents.

Lin Feng and Zhou Wenyuan faced a trial in which Presiding Judge He repeatedly favored the prosecution, obstructed the defense, and treated Lin Feng as guilty. After Lin Feng accused her of having already decided the verdict, she ordered the bailiffs to take him away and adjourned the court for ten minutes.

• Lin Feng rejected Zhou Wenyuan's suggestion to submit the secret recording, deciding it was too easy to challenge and would likely be excluded.
• Sun Tingting gave an emotional account of the alleged assault, but her answers faltered under Zhou Wenyuan's questions about why she had not called for help and how the matter was handled.
• Li Jing testified that she had advised Lin Feng to write a confession, claiming she had hoped to settle the matter quietly and that Lin Feng had agreed himself.
• Presiding Judge He interrupted Zhou Wenyuan's attempt to seek voiceprint analysis of the recording and refused to consider the application.
• Presiding Judge He questioned Lin Feng as though he were guilty, and Lin Feng accused her of having already decided the verdict; she angrily ordered the bailiffs to take him away and adjourned the trial.

Lin Feng was sentenced to three years for forcible molestation after Presiding Judge He delivered a verdict Zhou Wenyuan recognized as unjust. In detention, Lin Feng learned how Zhang Qian and others had used online outrage to influence the case and decided to stop playing by their rules.

• Presiding Judge He resumed the trial, heard the closing statements, and sentenced Lin Feng to three years in prison.
• Zhang Fen fainted at the verdict while Zhang Qian secretly celebrated, and Lin Feng remained calm.
• Lin Feng told Zhou Wenyuan through their consciousness link to appeal and investigate Presiding Judge He and Zhang Qian.
• At the detention center, Zhou Wenyuan reported the online accusations, official commentary, and harassment of Lin Feng's parents.
• Lin Feng concluded that his opponents had manipulated public opinion and the court, and resolved to set the rules himself.

After Lin Feng was sentenced to three years, Sun Tingting celebrated the verdict online and enjoyed the surge of support, while a few doubters were drowned out by the internet’s backlash. Lin Feng learned of the online carnival in prison and calmly vowed to repay everyone when the truth came out.

• Sun Tingting celebrated the verdict with Zhang Qian and her supporters, then recorded videos presenting Lin Feng’s three-year sentence as justice served.
• Sun Tingting posted her videos, prompting a wave of congratulations, denunciations of Lin Feng, and viral coverage across social platforms.
• Anonymous forum users questioned the evidence and sentence, but hostile commenters attacked and silenced them.
• Sun Tingting watched her popularity rise and imagined becoming an internet celebrity, convinced Zhang Qian had helped her succeed.
• Lin Feng learned about the online reaction through Zhou Wenyuan and silently promised that those celebrating would pay when the time came.

After Lin Feng secretly arranged for an audio recording exposing Sun Tingting’s false accusation to be released, public opinion turned against her and she was flooded with online abuse. Lin Feng watched the reversal from detention, observing that the public cared more about dramatic twists than the truth, as he prepared for the story to continue.

• An anonymous account uploaded a dorm recording in which Sun Tingting admitted to framing Lin Feng to secure a graduate recommendation and exploiting the counselor’s fear of trouble.
• A popular legal-education blogger shared the recording with a warning that its authenticity was uncertain, and it spread rapidly online.
• The audio platform removed the recording over privacy complaints, prompting netizens to accuse it of covering up the truth and target Sun Tingting’s social media accounts.
• Lin Feng learned through Zhou Wenyuan that public opinion had reversed and Sun Tingting had become a target of widespread abuse.
• Lin Feng reflected that online crowds followed dramatic reversals rather than truth, and concluded that Sun Tingting was only the first sacrifice.

Sun Tingting discovered that her confession had spread online and, after Zhang Qian abandoned her, used recordings of Zhang Qian to force her into helping contain the scandal. Lin Feng listened from prison and reflected on Sun Tingting’s resourcefulness.

• Wang Meng showed Sun Tingting a viral video containing Sun Tingting’s recorded confession, and Sun Tingting accused Wang Meng of secretly recording her.
• Wang Meng left after Sun Tingting threw a pillow at her, and Sun Tingting found that Zhang Qian had blocked her number.
• Sun Tingting called Zhang Qian from Wang Meng’s phone, played recordings exposing Zhang Qian’s involvement, and threatened to reveal her misconduct.
• Zhang Qian proposed that Sun Tingting blame the audio on AI fabrication and promised to use her connections to steer public opinion.
• Lin Feng listened to the exchange through a hidden listening device and admired Sun Tingting’s ability to turn the situation around.

Sun Tingting tried to discredit the leaked recording as an AI fabrication, but hacker K released three recordings exposing her conspiracy with Zhang Qian and their plan to manipulate the trial. Public outrage surged toward the authorities while Lin Feng watched calmly from detention and kept the evidence source protected.

• Sun Tingting posted a tearful video claiming the recording was fabricated by AI, while paid commenters and small-time science bloggers backed her story.
• Less than two hours later, K released three recordings that exposed Zhang Qian coaching Sun Tingting to make a false accusation, boasting of her connection to the judge, and yielding to Sun Tingting's threats.
• Netizens turned against Sun Tingting and Zhang Qian, and calls to investigate the officer, the judge, and the wrongful conviction spread across social media.
• Zhou Wenyuan told Lin Feng that public pressure had reached the authorities, and Lin Feng ordered him to protect the evidence's source and let the uproar continue.

After the anonymous account released recordings exposing Sun Tingting and Zhang Qian’s schemes, Sun fled the dorm in fear while Zhang Qian faced the collapse of her career and support. Zhang Qian shut off her phone and was left alone with the consequences.

• Sun Tingting heard the three recordings exposing her deals and threats with Zhang Qian, then discovered Zhang Qian had cut off contact with her.
• Fearing that someone had been secretly recording her, Sun packed a few belongings, disguised herself, and left the dorm for home by taxi.
• Zhang Qian’s uncle told her that the recordings might be difficult to use as direct evidence in court but that her conduct would bring severe disciplinary consequences.
• Zhang Qian learned that her career prospects were effectively over and that her uncle would also suffer professional repercussions.
• Overwhelmed by calls and messages, Zhang Qian powered off her phone and sat in silence.