★Multi-award winning indicator writer Chen Xue's new full-length suspense masterpiece has launched a new pattern of Chinese genre creation.
★Both literary depth and entertainment value, probing the core of their own, family, historical dilemma.
★Many of the author's novels have been adapted for television. This book is also tailored for film and television.

‘Only when he has started looking for the truth about someone’s mysterious death can he reconcile with his questioning on his own fate.’

In order to get over the breakup of a relationship, writer Wang Meng-lan accepts the commission to write the biography of the legendary painter Liu Guang. As a result, she arrives at Haishan Township, where she meets Chen Shao-gang, a private detective who comes to Haishan to investigate a case. Wang finds herself attracted to Chen who looks lonely and pensive but that also reminds her of the nightmare of her father drowning himself in the sea when she was little. Although the aims of their tasks are different as one is to gather.

They all try to move on to the future but are forever haunted by the past. The disappearance of Chui Chih-shan, the daughter of a local councillor, triggers their anxiety accumulated over the years. Wang follows Chen to solve the mysteries and to search for the missing girl while trying to reconcile with her own past and piecing together the truth about her father’s death.