As a prison records archivist, Jiang Ling is intimately familiar with the criminal files she has handled.
She had seen too many criminals, heard too many stories behind their crimes, and understood all too well the complexity and unpredictability of human nature.
Some people are born wicked, their crimes unforgivable.
Some take one wrong step, then another, until there is no way back.
Some act in a moment of impulse and regret it far too late.
And some were shaped by their upbringing, and that led to tragedy.
…
One day, Jiang Ling was reborn in 1993.
Fresh out of the police school, she is assigned to Jinwu Road Police Station as a community officer.
In the police service hall, an altercation is being handled. The officer in charge was lecturing two teenage boys: “Qian Darong, stop bullying Liang Jiushan all the time…”
The two names were far too familiar. Jiang Ling froze on the spot.
Liang Jiushan, born in 1978, was imprisoned for murder in 1999.
The person he killed was named Qian Darong.
The case had shocked the entire city back then.
Liang Jiushan had dropped out of school and spent six years tracking down his sister’s killer, all to personally take revenge. In court, he said only five words:
—I do not regret it.
Now… was his sister still alive?
She could only hope it wasn’t too late.
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