Drama Info:
Title: The Long Night (沉默的真相) Chen Mo De Zhen Xiang
Episodes: 12
Release Date: September 16, 2020
Film Location: Chongqing
Summary: The Chinese drama is is based on Zi Jin Chen’s novel “The Long Night Is Difficult to See” and tells the story of prosecutor Jiang Yang who has paid countless prices to find out the truth of the case over many years.
Plot Synoposis:
Hou Gui Ping is a teacher in the Miaogao Township. While teaching, he discovered the crimes of the Ka’en group.
In order to protect his female students, he resolutely opposes the dark forces and is wronged to death. Hou Gui Ping’s girlfriend Li Jing found that things were not that simple, and asks her old classmate Jiang Yang for help.
Jiang Yang graduated from the Department of Political Science and Law of Jianghua University. When he was young, he was handsome and righteous.
He’s a prosecutor of the Pingkang County Procuratorate. With the help of Li Jing and the encouragement of his girlfriend Wu Ai Ke, he starts the Hou Gui Ping case. Jiang Yang and others investigate for 10 years.
10 years later, Jiang Yang suffers from illness and plans a subway dumping case with Li Jing, Zhang Chao, Zhu Wei, Chen Ming Zhang, and Zhang Xiao Qian.
Yan Liang, investigates the subway murder case, and is the deputy team leader of the task force. His has a different style of handling the case, does not play his cards according to common sense, and has a keen insight into details.
The suspect killed and threw the body, but is arrested on the spot due to an accident in the public. There are at least a few hundred eyewitnesses at the scene, and the suspect also confesses to the entire crime.
Witnesses, physical evidence, oral confession – there is a complete evidence chain. Just when the prosecutors officially convict the suspect, the circumstances of the case suddenly change.
They begin to receive the so-called “jiu gong ge” photo letters and little by little the truth about the case 10 years ago surfaces.
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Cast & Characters:
Liao Fan 廖凡 as Yan Liang 严良
The deputy team leader of the “Subway Corpse Case”. He has a keen insight into the details.
Bai Yu 白宇 as Jiang Yang 江阳
Graduated from the Department of Political Science and Law of Jianghua University. When he was young, he was righteous and handsome. At that time, he didn’t know that the truth had a price.
Supporting Characters
Tan Zhuo 谭卓 as Li Jing 李静
Former girlfriend of Hou Gui Ping, classmate to Jiang Yang. She waits silently in the dark, just to let her deceased get the justice they deserve.
Ning Li 宁理 as Zhang Chao 张超
One of the planners of the subway murder case.
Huang Yao 黄尧 as Zhang Xiao Qing 张晓倩
One of the planners of the subway murder case.
Drama Posters:
Airing Schedule
Start: September 16, 2020
Frequency: 2 episodes every Wednesday to Friday
End: October 1, 2020
