On a stormy night, a woman's corpse is discovered on a remote suburban road. The only witness claims to have seen a mysterious woman holding a red umbrella at the scene. When Detective Huo Ran is assigned to the case, the investigation takes a startling turn—the body might belong to Lin Qian, a girl who vanished seven years ago in a brutal family massacre.

The narrative follows Detective Lin Zhe and his partner Li Chen as they race to solve a baffling string of murders. Over five days, four corpses are discovered across the city—each with different causes of death, but sharing a chilling similarity: a distorted smile frozen on their faces and a King of Spades playing card clutched in their hands.

Deep within Lake Ling lies an invisible door—the boundary between reality and the “mirror world.” When the first corpse is pulled from the lake, a sealed letter clenched in its hand contains only one chilling sentence: “You were never the first.” Initially believed to be an isolated suicide, everything changes when a second body and a third letter appear. The timeline fractures, the clues intertwine, and the case descends into a fog of the supernatural.

He is Lying is a suspenseful and psychologically charged detective novel, telling the story of the protagonist, Song Ye, who, while investigating an ordinary case, gradually uncovers the complex conspiracy behind it. Initially just a regular investigator, Song Ye finds himself drawn into a secret global information control project after a bizarre death case. As the investigation deepens, he discovers not only that he has become a suspect, but also that he is entangled in an invisible web from wh