
At 28, Chu Yanxi was the youngest negotiation expert in the police force. Her world was black and white, with everything measured by the law. During her first solo negotiation, she faced a desperate housewife named Zhang Ya, who, after her husband's infidelity, had a mental breakdown and took his mistress hostage. Chu Yanxi strictly adhered to the negotiation process, calmly analyzed the situation, and tried to use logic to restore Zhang Ya's reason, but she failed.
The price for the failed negotiation was that Chu Yanxi transmigrated. She transmigrated into the female-centric crime novel "Break the Cocoon," where each story is heart-wrenching. In 1985, university student Qiao Zhaoran was abducted and endured four years of inhuman torture before poisoning an entire family of eight. In court, she only said four words: "They deserved it!"
In 1992, Chunni, a mountain village woman who suffered from her husband's domestic violence for years, killed her husband in a rage to protect her daughter from being sold. However, she was punished by village rules to be drowned in a sack. In 1998, Ruan Xiaofen, a laid-off female worker from a textile mill, stole technical data to raise money for her mother suffering from uremia. She was caught and received news of her mother's death while in custody, leading her to jump from a building in despair.
As Chu Yanxi travels through these lives, she gradually understands the complexity of human nature. They are daughters, wives, and mothers, but more so, independent souls who feel pain, anger, and不甘 (unwillingness). When systems and prejudices trap them in dark corners, and when oppression and indifference push them to desperate straits, tragedy screams out in the form of crime.
Only when the light of the law shines into every silent corner, and only when the weak can obtain dignity without becoming "bullies," can we truly redeem this flawed world.
One-sentence synopsis: The world is tattered and broken; I am here to patch it up.
Moral: Only those who live on have hope.