A poor young man had just experienced the frustration of being fired by his boss and was feeling dejected. Suddenly, he found himself transported into a novel he had been avidly reading, titled Republican Detective: The Hunt for the Killer. To his astonishment, he had become the renowned detective Zhou Chenlong.
Coincidentally, a murder case had just occurred in Dongping City—the mysterious death of Zhu Manyu, a dancer at the Phoenix Dance Hall. As Zhou Chenlong led his team to investigate, they uncovered connections to another case from six years ago. Watch as this down-and-out man rises to fame, transforming into a legendary detective and solving the case step by step…