Detective Yuan Feng Liang investigates a mass killing after eighteen-year-old Jin Xi Cheng unexpectedly confesses and receives a life sentence. Seven years later, another bizarre case causes an entire special-operations team to disappear, bringing Liang back to the prisoner he never fully understood. Taking the now-adult Cheng into his custody, Liang learns that the young man is a powerful wizard who regards his inherited abilities as a curse, and the two begin investigating whether the old and new cases are connected.