The filming continued, and as Ding Hui's investigation progressed, the various truths discovered after peeling off the cocoons became increasingly shocking.
The most exciting part of the script is the plot's repeated twists and turns, which make the audience completely unable to grasp the direction of the plot. Whenever they think they have grasped the truth, the subsequent twists and turns make things even more confusing.
The process of revelation is like peeling a freshly unearthed onion, which becomes more and more eye-catching towards the end. As the mystery is peeled off layer by layer, the darkness of the incident becomes deeper and deeper, and people's hearts become more sinister.
Characters who were initially thought to be little white rabbits were skinned one after another to reveal their true nature as big bad wolves.
Everyone is evil!
Until the clues identified the car repair boss, Ding Hui watched helplessly as he fell from the roof of the building, and everything spiraled out of control.
All the evidence points to one case, the kidnapping of a rich man's daughter nine years ago. A man and a woman, addicted to drugs, kidnapped and blackmailed the rich man. After receiving the ransom, they returned and planned to release the hostages, only to find that the hostages had been killed by a third accomplice.
The kidnapping instantly escalated into murder. The two were so frightened that they quickly took the money and drove away. Their accomplices pursued them on foot without mercy, and eventually a car accident occurred.
The murderer is still at large, the abyss is right in front of him, and Ding Hui is falling deeper into it step by step.
Fortunately, the goddess Maggie never gives up and goes all out to help find the truth. This is the main motivation to persevere until...
I saw her with my own eyes with the editor-in-chief who was so kind to her!
The two of them have been lovers for a long time!
Ding Hui collapsed instantly!
Everything suddenly became clear, what a one-night stand, what secret investigation, what pursuit of the truth...
all fake!
Maggie has only one purpose, and there is only one person she really wants to help, and that is the editor-in-chief.
From this moment on, Ding Hui began to darken, his whole temperament gradually darkened, his eyes became numb, and all that was left was a dark abyss.
"Do you know why the newspaper fired you?"
"Do you think I did it?"
The once hostile deputy editor looked at Ding Hui and said word by word: "Let me tell you, it was Maggie who proposed it at that time!"
Ding Hui was struck by lightning.
"Why did you even betray me?"
"Why!"
Ding Hui looked at himself in the mirror, with a ferocious face and fierce eyes. He gritted his teeth and swore: "Just wait!"
"I must find out the truth!"
Completely immersed in madness, like a hunting dog, desperately chasing clues. Now the truth is no longer important. Revenge, Ding Hui wants to take revenge on all those who have wronged him.
The second female lead, played by Ding Yu, appears on the scene. She is the woman who escaped from the kidnapping gang back then and has been hiding incognito until today.
She was finally found through tea leaves. Faced with Ding Hui's questioning, Ding Yu remained silent, as if she was afraid of something?
Then suddenly and mysteriously disappeared again!
"Yes, I was the perpetrator of that car accident nine years ago!"
Ding Hui looked at the former editor-in-chief, now a senior official, and the teacher who had supported him for many years...
"You can choose to expose it." The editor-in-chief looked calm, like an outsider, and said confidently: "You can choose to expose the so-called truth."
"But what's the gain in the end?"
"What can be changed?"
"I need a propaganda minister now!"
"Your talent is enough for the job. Are you interested?"
Faced with the choice, Ding Hui remained silent. Upon seeing this, the editor-in-chief showed a confident smile and asked: "Think about it carefully."
"Is it about the future of the next few decades?"
"Be a hero for fifteen minutes!"
Ding Hui finally compromised, facing a bright future and compromising again, just like he did nine years ago.
From now on, everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope. No one is clean and they are all vested interests. Do you already know the outcome before you even showdown with the editor?
The editor-in-chief who seemed to appreciate young people and support his younger generation actually rose to prominence through marriage and his wife's relationship. He secretly supported his mistress, concealed the perpetrator of the car accident, destroyed evidence, killed and framed the owner of the car repair shop.
Maggie, who had been secretly in love for many years, was just trying to save herself by adding insult to injury. She won Ding Hui's trust through sex, and claimed to help investigate the case, but in fact she was a two-faced person who tipped off the editor.
Finally, there is Xu Aiting, who looks weak and has lived on the run for so many years, but the previous kidnapping case proved that she is not a victim either.
All characters are bad guys!
After painstakingly pursuing the truth, I finally found that the truth is crueler and more naked than lies.
Ding Hui remembered a famous saying: A true warrior dares to face the dripping blood and face the bleak life.
Too many film and television dramas like to portray the characters in black and white stories. Zheng Ze is full of righteousness, with the blood of justice flowing all over his body, and there is no sand in his eyes.
On the contrary, pus will ooze from the soles of the feet, sores will appear on the top of the head, and every pore on the body will be filled with the smell of sin.
The reason why it is set up like this is that the extreme opposition between good and bad is to hit the audience's point of enjoyment. Old men like to watch good people beat up bad people and bad people die happily.
It's just that the story has a twist, making the bad guys smarter, and making the good guys encounter some bumps in the fight...
But in the end, it’s the plot and reunion ending where justice will eventually defeat evil, isn’t it?
The routine has won people's hearts since ancient times, and I have seen bad guys do all kinds of despicable things, using their power to bully others, oppressing the people, and doing all kinds of evil, making the audience hate them to the core and want to kill them.
Then the protagonist appears in person, carrying the audience's high expectations for him to punish evil and promote good. Just like fighting monsters and upgrading, he passes through many obstacles, refuses all kinds of temptations, breaks through various levels set by the villain, and finally punishes the villain.
Feeling relieved, he clapped his hands and cheered.
But what happens after you feel good?
Just feel good and that's it, whatever you want comes next!
However, there are not so many clearly defined good and bad, black and white in reality. The complexity of society largely comes from the complexity of human nature.
Unfettered human nature cannot withstand the test. If you and I are placed in a torrential rainy night, there is no monitoring and no signal, all traces will be washed away, and wealth like a mountain is at your fingertips. How many people can remain unmoved?
How many people can resist taking action?
Life is like this, everyone has hidden sin deep in their heart, some are lingering, some are suffering, some are dripping with blood, some are drifting with the tide...
Drifting between muddy water and pure water with no clear distinction, swaying from side to side, trudging along. You are like this, I am like this, everyone is like this.