About the book: 2024 / FROM THE LEADING AUTHOR OF THRILLERS IN CHINA. AN EXCITING AND DARK GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE. THE FILM Adaptation of "BAD CHILDREN" INSTANTLY BECAME AN INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON AND UPON FUCKED IN NETWORKS A RECORD NUMBER OF TIMES. The perfect crime. One fine morning, math teacher Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy relatives off the observation deck of Sanmingshan National Park. Everything is calculated to the smallest detail. The police considered it an accident. Close people. Zhu Chaoyang is the best student in the school. Due to his thirst for knowledge, Zhu is endlessly lonely. Everything changes when his childhood friend Ding Hao unexpectedly returns into his life with his adopted sister Pupu. They escaped from a shelter for children whose parents were convicted of murder, and are now desperate for money. Blackmail. While walking in the park, the teenagers accidentally filmed the murder committed by Zhang. And now they offer the killer to buy incriminating evidence, ready to do anything to achieve their goal. But Zhang does not intend to dance to someone else’s tune. And then the darkness begins... “The perfect noir for modern China!” – Crime Reads “Brilliant! One of those books where I desperately wanted to know how it could end, but didn’t want to get to the end!” – Jackie McLean, author of the Detective Donna Davenport series»