Under The Skin

Seven years after his paintings landed him in the middle of a police case gone wrong, Shen Yi joins the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Beijiang Branch as the new portrait artist. But Captain Du Cheng is less than welcoming to the new transfer.

When a plastic surgeon dies of cyanide poisoning, Du Cheng must find the five plastic surgery clients whose hidden tapes are missing. But to make a match to medical records, Shen Yi must restore the faces from the videos to the way they looked before surgery.

After wrapping up the plastic surgeon’s murder, the team is called to investigate the discovery of a skeleton in a school field. Meanwhile, Du Cheng is puzzled and suspicious about why Shen Yi disappeared from the art world seven years ago and now has become a policeman.

The Bureau continues to investigate the mysterious classroom skull. When Ren Xiaoxuan's mother hands over a high school diary that her daughter had left at home, they must use the clues in the diary to find those close to her as soon as possible.

The diary and a painting may hold the truth to what happened to Ren Xiaoxuan. More secrets of Shen Yi’s past come to light as Du Cheng meets an old friend of the artist.

An old case is revived involving a suspect claiming she was coerced by an accomplice to commit the crime. Several portraitists have tried to draw the accomplice, but each has resulted in a vastly different picture.