Burning Ice

Burning Ice (simplified Chinese: 无证之罪; traditional Chinese: 無證之罪) is a Chinese original crime drama television series, adapted from the novel The Untouched Crime by the author Zijin Chen (紫金陈), broadcast on iQiyi in September 2017.

Guo Yu, a member of a radicalized group called the "Ant Tribe," gets drawn into a homicide case involving his ex-girlfriend, Zhu Huiru. She's accused of murder, with evidence suggesting a link to a past serial killer known as The Snowman. Ex-cop Luo Wen, implicated in both cases, inadvertently aids Huiru and Yu by covering up evidence.

Crooked cop Yan Liang takes on the case to regain trust but faces a dilemma as his ex-partner, Luo Wen, is implicated. As Yu and Huiru race to clear their names, they encounter obstacles from both the real killer and a copycat. With tough choices ahead, including sacrificing each other to save themselves, their bond is tested.

Navigating the underworld, they uncover the truth but face limited options. As they confront the conclusion, sacrifices must be made for their survival.

Born into a family of detectives with a storied history, Liang was the typical mischievous teenager, at times forgetting who his family was, but always still able to fall into trouble. Under his father's aggressive guidance, and watchful eyes, he graduated from the police academy at the top of his class. After a few years on the force, the “rule breaking” attitude from his youth came back. But now directed towards his superiors, Liang was eventually demoted for an “aggressive” behavior coupled with “extra-curricular” activities while on duty. While trying to regain trust from the police department, he stumbles upon a mysterious “cold-case” that has similarities to a killer he has been chasing, who calls himself “The Snowman." He pursues the theory that they are.

Huiru is a woman seeking freedom from her family and hometown, and exit to a calmer life. Beauty, coveted by many women, brought her the wrong type of attention, becoming a catalyst to events that forever change her life. Dragged against her will into a world she doesn't, and cannot, control... bridged together by past relationships with men and a homicide investigation, while under the watchful eyes of a serial killer.

A gifted forensic medical examiner and ex-cop, and who also happened to be Yan Liang's ex-partner in the police force. Many years ago his wife and daughter went missing while he was away on a business trip, and now he is hell-bent on finding out the truth, and revenge towards who is responsible. Without the bodies or any clear evidence, the police declare it as a missing person case, and consider it closed due to lack of evidence. Not satisfied with the outcome of the investigation, he decides to investigate on his own. When an unknown fingerprint, suppressed in the original investigation, is found at his home, he discovers similarities to his case and the infamous Snowman killer.

Guo Yu is a typical member of an “Ant Tribe” - a group of radicalized low-income college graduates – as a college-educated graduate trying to find his own place in a city he barely recognizes anymore. Then one day, his already fragile world is turned upside-down when he is accidentally drawn into a homicide case through his ex-girlfriend, who he is still madly in love with, even though she might not share the same feelings as he does. In a race against time to clear their names, his human nature is challenged as he faces his own demons of greed, vanity, and reckless ambition.