Thirteen Years of Dust – Chen Jianbin, Chen Xiao, Chuo Ni

In 2010, a vicious murder occurred in Nandu City. Seeing the death of a young girl, the captain of the criminal investigation detachment, Lu Xingzhi, remembered a case from thirteen years ago. In 1997, Lu Xingzhi had just joined the police force. His master Wei Zhengrong had a bold personality and didn’t like his bookish apprentice. The first victim was similar to the one in 2010 in that they both had strange postures and there was an HB pencil at the scene.

The victim in 1997, Liu Meng, was a dancer in a nightclub. The deceased Wang Nannan in 2010 was also a dancer. The unsolved case is still a hidden pain for the police, and Wei Zhengrong is no longer in the criminal investigation detachment. Lu Xingzhi and his wife Yang Man divorced and have a sixteen-year-old daughter named Lu Anning. The first suspect in 1997 was Hong Kong superstar Huang Jiajie.

In 1997, after investigation, Huang Jiajie was found not to have committed the crime. Wei Zhengrong had just divorced and had a relationship with Bai Xiaofu, a university researcher who helped the police inspect physical evidence. In 2010, a hair was found on the victim Wang Nannan’s body. The DNA matched that of Liu Meng in 1997, and it was determined that the murderer from that year had committed another crime. Wei Zhengrong is now an ordinary police officer in a police station. Lu Xingzhi asked him to return, but he refused.

In 1997, someone reported that Liu Meng’s pursuer Yao Le, a down-and-out rock singer, was the murderer and had gone into hiding. When Lu Xingzhi and his wife Yang Man were having dinner with their high-ranking parents, they met Yang Man’s childhood friend Yang Zhe, who was also a high-ranking child and had a crush on Yang Man. In 2010, although Wei Zhengrong refused Lu Xingzhi’s request to return, he couldn’t help but inquire about the case.

In 1997, Lu Xingzhi learned unexpectedly that Yao Le had returned. When Wei Zhengrong was taking his son to eat KFC, he ran into Yao Le and captured him. Yao Le refused to admit to the crime because he really liked Liu Meng. At this time, another murder occurred. In 2010, Wei Zhengrong finally couldn’t help but come back to help. He and Lu Xingzhi went to find Yao Le together. Now he is Wang Nannan’s boyfriend.

The second victim in 1997 had the same cause of death as Liu Meng. Yao Le was ruled out as a suspect. The deceased Du Mei was a female worker in a bicycle factory and had a three-year-old child named Ningning. In 2010, Yao Le said that Wang Nannan had a QQ netizen named HB, whose IP address was in an Internet cafe. One of the suspects in 1997, Ma Chengqun, was found from the Internet cafe’s surveillance footage. Ma Chengqun had pursued Du Mei and was threatened after being splashed with paint.

In 1997, Ma Chengqun was a famous nail household. He caused trouble by pouring gasoline on the roof and fell through the roof. He confessed that Du Mei was killed that night and he was building a house at home. He also said that Du Mei used to be not a worker. In 2010, Ma Chengqun had six houses. He likes to drive big cars and travel around. Wei Zhengrong guarded him in the bathhouse.

Du Mei used to work in a bathhouse and resigned three years ago when she was pregnant. Wei Zhengrong asked the bathhouse boss “Daoge” Guo Shengli, who denied knowing Du Mei. Lu Xingzhi and his wife decided to adopt an orphan girl Ningning. In 2010, Ma Chengqun said that he saw a person wearing a bird’s head mask and riding a small motorcycle that night. When Wei and Lu were searching, they found Daoge working at a motorcycle repair shop.

In 1997, Daoge admitted to Wei Zhengrong that he had a good relationship with Du Mei. He wanted to help the police catch the murderer. In 2010, Guo Shengli had just been released from prison and became old and timid. He believed that the murderer was his rival Bai Xiaowei and had already taken care of him. When he learned that he was wrong, Guo Shengli fainted. The girl Lu Anning began to have nightmares and seemed to remember that terrible night.

In 2010, Lu Anning searched the murder case online and met Wu Jia, a student of Yang Man. Wei and Lu found that Qu Zhenxiang, Guo Shengli’s subordinate “Xi Chong”, was now a star entrepreneur. In 1997, the special case team detective Lao Du was deliberately hit by a Toyota Crown and suspected to be Guo Shengli’s car. Wei Zhengrong went to catch people but heard that Bai Xiaowei was chopped by Guo Shengli.