A Criminal Investigator's Life in a Courtyard House

In August of 1960, a year marked by severe natural disasters, Li Xiangyang, dragging his emaciated body, slowly made his way to the moat outside Deshengmen in Beijing.

Looking around, the moonlight at dawn illuminated the earth and the now shallow jade belt.

In a few quick movements, after stripping himself naked, Li Xiangyang leaped and plunged headfirst into the moat.

What? You're saying Li Xiangyang committed suicide? Well, thank you so much! He was just taking a shower.

Li Xiangyang, disheveled and filthy, has to meet someone tomorrow. If he's taken to the resettlement point looking like this, it'll be a tragedy.