Who Whispers the Night

In the summer of 2006, a luxury villa in Guangzhou reveals a wall-embedded treasure case: 200 million and a charred teenage corpse. Jiang HeZhi (third son of Jingchen Group), the newly appointed police captain, and Sheng Ning, head of the Anti-Corruption Bureau’s investigation division, clash as they jointly investigate. The case exposes ex-district chief Han Shu’s corruption network and connects to a decade-old demolition scandal in Changliu Street—vanished funds, mysterious deaths of village cadres, and violent suppression of residents. The victim’s birth control implant points to a hidden brothel “Little Plum Mansion,” while developer Liao Hui’s involvement in a deadly factory fire unrav...