In the torrential rain, the Zhao Family Village villagers caught a rapist, but the rapist was beaten to death in the chaos. The dead man was Liu Cheng, the young master of the Liu Family Corporation, a notorious playboy who had tried to rape Zhao Yining, a young girl from the village. When the police arrived, led by detective Li Gang, they found the village united and ready to fight. Zhao Xiaopang initially claimed responsibility, but the oldest ancestor of the village, Zhao Xiangdong, stepped forward. He was a frail, white-haired man in a worn military uniform covered in medals. He declared himself a demobilized veteran from the Jingnan War Zone and said he killed the evildoer to protect his descendants. He surrendered himself to the police.At the Zhoulian Police Station, the chief was furious, believing Zhao Xiangdong was faking his identity as a soldier and desecrating the uniform. She interrogated him personally. Zhao Xiangdong claimed to be 118 years old and refused to cooperate, insisting he was the killer. He seemed intent on dying. Meanwhile, the Liu Family Corporation chairman, Liu Long, pressured the police for justice. The village learned that Zhao Xiangdong had only a short time left to live and had sacrificed himself to take the blame and protect the village from retaliation. Zhao Yining was given a medal by Zhao Xiangdong before he left.Back at the station, Li Gang recognized the medal on Zhao Xiangdong’s chest as a Demon Hunter Medal, awarded for hunting 500,000 foreign demons in the Jingnan campaign. Only 79 such medals were ever awarded. The chief was skeptical, but the serial number on the medal indicated Zhao Xiangdong was the first recipient, code 101. This baffled the chief, as such a decorated veteran should have been a high-ranking figure, not a dying old man in a remote mountain village. The chief decided to detain Zhao Xiangdong for further questioning.The news of the case spread online, sparking intense debate. Some defended Liu Cheng, while others questioned the authenticity of Zhao Xiangdong’s medals. The Beihe Province Public Security Bureau Director was enraged and demanded answers from the Zhoulian Police Station chief. Meanwhile, in the capital, a man discovered that the person he had been searching for decades had finally appeared: Zhao Xiangdong. The story sets up a mystery around Zhao Xiangdong’s true past, his mysterious medals, and his sacrifice to save his family.
