Mind Game

- Season 1

(2015)

3 young girls have been beheaded in a park. An-ni Zhao investigates. She discusses the case with psychiatrist Koo, who later turns out to be the consultant to these girls for bipolar disorders. An-ni amicably breaks-up with her boyfriend.

An-ni has to release a suspect, Fu-qiang, because there is no evidence. Suspicion of Koo is misplaced. Koo uses hypnotism to prevent a suicide. Wen-jie gets news that his lost sister is in China. A kidnap victim is saved by the police.

Li wants a divorce but his wife, Kai-Li, suspects infidelity. Wen-jie follows him and becomes suspicious that Li is an impostor. There is fear of harm to Kai-Li. A girl pretends to be Wen-jie's lost sister and tries to con his mother.

Wenjie is worried Kaili may be in danger. Before he can warn her, he learns she has been in an accident. At the hospital, he pretends to console Zhenbang and manages to get the latter's hair strands for a DNA test. Yongyan goes to the columbarium to visit May. Zhenbang, who is there, is surprised to learn Yongyan was May's psychiatrist. Yongyan hypnotises Zhenbang to make him reveal the truth, but the latter is too strong-willed to comply.

Wenjie and Anni manage to find Xuezhi. Xuezhi's heart stops for a moment, but is miraculously revived by a teardrop from Wenjie's eyes. Anni senses that he has special feelings for Xuezhi. Anni gets Wenqi to confront Zhenbang, who admits to swopping identities with Dawei and also killing May. Wenjie is relieved when Xuezhi finally comes round. Ke'er and Tony play games at an Internet cafe. Tony loses and accuses Mark of cheating.

Vivian suspects Tony was poisoned to death. Laboratory tests show his drink was laced with cyanide. Ziliang reveals Mark and Tony are the champion and first runner-up of the online game, Terminator. Anni asks Ziliang to find out who the second runner-up, Stranger X, is. Wenjie buys tonics for Xuezhi and goes to the flower shop.

The murder weapon was a sharp unidentified weapon. Anni consoles Ke'er while her team checks out the scene. Anni tells Wu Yuan the police suspect Ke'er may be involved in the murder and she may need to return for questioning. Wu Yuan is concerned about Ke'er's anxiety. As the top three winners of the Terminator online game are dead, Anni tries to get clues from the third runner-up, who is currently overseas.

Xuezhi is attacked. Anni saves her in the nick of time. Anni blames Wenjie for interfering in the case and hopes he will not do so again. Wenjie visits Ke'er. He is well aware how worried Wu Yuan is about his daughter. Ke'er speaks incoherently and does not even recognise Wu Yuan. Anni knows Wenjie visited Ke'er. She senses something amiss when a rumour spreads online about Ke'er feigning insanity to escape the legal process. Anni lays an ambush at the hospital. Sharon turns up and tries to kill Ke'er. She admits she killed Mark and Tony, so that Wenguang could become...

Wenjie is surprised when Anni proposes getting back together. Xinde is found dead and the police suspect a revenge killing. Anni learns he owed Chief Hong a large sum of money before he was arrested. She is about to question Chief Hong when she notices Yongyan with him. Chief Hong mistakes her for Yongyan's love interest and invites her to dinner. During the meal, Anni reveals her identity and makes Chief Hong very unhappy by questioning him. Yongyan promises he will keep his distance from her. Wenjie rejects the idea of reconciling with Anni. Another man, David, is ...

Xuezhi shows Wenjie her childhood photographs and relates details of their past together, which lead him to believe she really is Huixin. Anni has no leads on the murder cases. Attention zeroes in on Uncle Chen, who goes missing yet again when another person is killed. Yongyan suggests using hypnosis to make Caiyun recall the murderer's face. Uncle Chen learns of the plan and worries that the culprit is his son, Chen Yanbin. He threatens Caiyun and falls into Anni's trap. Uncle Chen admits he is the murderer, However, Anni uncovers loopholes in his statement. She is ...

Xuezhi has a premonition Wenjie will be in danger. She tells Anni, who gets her men to investigate. Mingxian chases Anni and Xuezhi out when they call on him. Xuezhi becomes increasingly anxious over her persistent sense of Wenjie being in danger. Anni learns Mingxian and Jessie seem to be selling all their assets. He lets Jessie collect the ransom. Anni sees through their ploy and arrests them. Jessie and Mingxian each blame the other and refuse to reveal Wenjie's whereabouts. Wenjie is bleeding and in a state of delirium at a junkyard. With Xuezhi's help, Anni ...

Jingxiang is unable to accept Qingwei's death. The police suspect she killed him because she did not want a divorce. Wenjie asks Wu Yuan for help. Anni is unconvinced by all the theories put forth. Junrong learns business at the flower shop is poor. He gets reporters to do a special report on the shop. Xuezhi's attractive face generates good publicity and many people turn up, hoping to befriend her. Wenjie and Wu Yuan find out that Qingwei had an affair. Wenjie goes to Qingwei's office, where he discovers Qingwei was in a relationship with Joanna, who is pregnant.

Trying to get into Yongyan's good books, Ke'er visits Professor Guo Zhipeng with him. Zhipeng urges her to give up and jokes that hypnosis can help her forget her attraction to Yongyan. Joanna reveals the poisoned red wine was from Wilson. When questioned, Wilson claims the red wine was from an overseas friend. After Anni leaves, he makes a phone call. Jingxiang drinks with Wenjie. When he falls asleep, she goes to the washroom before returning to wake him up to watch the sunrise. Anni learns Wilson has been killed and the surveillance camera recording makes Jingxiang...

Yongyan believes Junrong was hypnotised. He and Anni watch the bar's surveillance camera recording but find the incriminating portion erased. On her way back, Anni is hypnotised. Anni turns up at the flower shop and aims a gun at Xuezhi. Another call on her mobile phone makes her take Xuezhi to a designated place. Wenjie is worrying about Xuezhi when he receives a message from Yongyan.

Anni and Wenjie fail to stop Dick from jumping off a building and killing himself. Xuezhi claims she has no idea what is going on. Anni voices her suspicions about Xuezhi's statement. Wenjie loses his temper, and Anni reminds him to keep his cool on matters related to Xuezhi. Xuezhi feels bad, as she had counter-hypnotised Dick and caused his death. Junrong does not dare to greet Xuezhi when they meet. Chief Hong asks Junrong out for a meal, but it is Old Ke who turns up. Old Ke threatens to reveal what happened more than 20 years ago if Chief Hong does not give him ...

Wenjie catches sight of a woman before passing out.. Anni goes to a house in which there are many books and educational resources. Jason tells her Old Ke was jobless and had chalked up huge gambling debts in Macau. Chief Hong's steward, Zhong Daochen, was the last person who spoke to him. Uncle Chen learns Chief Hong sold his shares at a low price to raise more than $400,000 in cash. Just then, Daochen calls Anni and admits he killed Old Ke to silence him. When she asks him to surrender himself to the police, he hangs up. By the time the police reach him, he has ...

Posing as Tiancheng, Wenjie contacts Wanren to extort money from him. Wanren makes plans to kill "Tiancheng" to cover up his crimes. The police are ready for him and he is arrested. Wanren admits to his crimes, but Anni senses he has not revealed everything. Yongyan needs to go to Macau. Before he leaves, he expresses his feelings for Anni. He hopes she will put the past behind her and accept his love. She is taken aback. Yongyan sends messages to Anni every night. Though moved, she cannot being herself to enter into another relationship just yet.

Anni ignores the threat sent to her via email. Just then, she learns Sandy has been found dead, apparently strangled by fishing wire. A laptop bag and pollen were found at the scene. Anni begins to be suspicious of Xuezhi when she learns the pollen probably came from Xuezhi's shop. Furthermore, Xuezhi has the same bag as that which was found. Wenjie and Anni deduce that Xuezhi is keeping something from them. Anni takes medical leave and is moved when Yongyan takes care of her upon his return from Macau. He tells Wenjie he wants to court Anni and hopes Wenjie will make...

Anni receives a letter, warning her that the first attack was just a small gesture and she and her family would not be so lucky the next time. She realises the threat is not merely a prank and that the suspect could be associated with a jewellery robbery eight years before. There were three robbers at the time. Two were arrested; their chief was killed on the spot. One of the convicts, Qiangsheng, was released early for good behaviour.

Wenjie is disturbed by the trouble involving Xuezhi. Ke'er tries to cheer him up. Yongyan invites him out for a drink, and he asks Anni along. Anni and Yongyan feel awkward. Caiyun calls to say Xuezhi has left. Anni rejects Yongyan when he expresses his love for her. When leaving, she is attacked by an assailant. Yongyan rescues her and is injured. Ke'er meets her ex-classmate, Wang Ruoxi, who is pregnant but not married. After they have parted, Ruoxi is attacked and miscarries. Anni visits Cindy, who was beaten up by her new boyfriend, Qiangsheng. He had challenged ...

Wenjie manages to convince Xuezhi to stay. Gary denies all the allegations and hires Wu Yuan to defend him. Wenjie finds himself caught in between Anni and his work. Wenjie finds out Gary is having an affair with Sophia, a rich married woman. He tells Anni this fact can prove Gary's innocence. Old Ke's buddies turn up to confront Yongyan and Lida. Anxious about his family, Lida decides to off-load his assets. Junrong finds out and quarrels with his father. He confronts Old Ke's buddies and is annoyed when Yongyan ruins the discussion.

Anni is about to fire a shot at herself when Wenjie arrives. They work together to subdue Guo Xing, who is eventually killed. Yongyan sends a gift to Anni and is pleasantly surprised when she asks him out. Gary holds a press conference to clarify his relationship with Ruoxi. Anni puts him under protective custody, as she is worried Ruoxi's murderer might harm him. The culprit does turn up and he is Ruoxi's neighbour, Jacky.

Wenjie tells Anni he did drink on the night in question but was still sober. Even when shown the alleged evidence, he insists he could not have killed Mad Dog. Ke'er declares she had fainted and was not sure whether Mad Dog was killed on the spot. Caiyun almost passes out when she learns Wenjie has been arrested. He asks Xuezhi to take care of Caiyun and herself. Anni argues with Yongyan, who cautions her against being biased in her investigations. Hao, a loanshark, tells Anni he had issues with Mad Dog over money but did not know him well. Ke'er finds an elderly ...

Wenjie begins to be suspicious of Yongyan after the Mad Dog case. Ke'er steals Yongyan's computer records to help him find out more. Wenjie discovers that Guo Xing's wife used to be Yongyan's patient. He confides in Anni, who tells him not to break the law by stealing information. When questioned, Yongyan admits he had treated Guo Xing's wife, but had no idea Guo Xing was her husband. Anni chooses to trust him. Yongyan senses a familiar figure tailing him, but the latter disappears when he turns around. Hao's girlfriend, Coco, turns up and tells Yongyan she saw what ...

Yongyan asks Linda to stay by his side and hides her in an apartment. Annoyed when Anni questions him based on what Wenjie had said, he storms off. Wenjie and Caiyun visit Xuezhi in the hospital. She wants to be discharged. Knowing her days are numbered, she prefers to die at home. Wenjie has no choice but to agree. Xuezhi is happy Caiyun still regards her as her daughter, despite knowing the truth. Yongyan apologises to Anni for losing his temper at her. Moved, she forgives him.

Wenjie remembers his encounter with Coco and deduces that the secret lies in her mobile phone. He still suspects Yongyan. Anni, however, has been brainwashed by the latter. Wenjie goes about his own investigations. He stumbles upon Coco's mobile phone in Yongyan's place. Just when he is leaving, Yongyan returns. Wenjie comes round and finds himself at a bar. He is supposed to have taken an entire bottle of whisky. Back home, he feels bad that Caiyun has been waiting up for him. The next day, Wenjie asks Anni and Yongyan out. Anni is puzzled when Wenjie apologises to ...

Anni discovers she is pregnant. Yongyan takes Lida to the place where his parents were killed and questions him. Lida passes out when his failing heart acts up. Xuezhi suspects Yongyan is related to the lady who had bought flowers from her shop, as she could smell the same scent on Yongyan. She does a portrait of the lady for Anni. Anni is shocked, as the woman Xuezhi saw is Linda, who is supposedly dead.

Yongyan breaks down after listening to the recording Linda had left him. Wenjie is not dead. Anni had saved him before he hit the wall. Wenjie's plan was to lure the culprit out. Instead, Linda's death left Anni with a suspension. Ke'er meets Junrong at the hospital and urges him to stay strong. On the way back after driving Ke'er to the law firm, Junrong meets a conman and decides to check his car camera. He is taken aback by the images recorded. Junrong calls on Yongyan and hits him. The brothers have a falling out. Anni asks the professor to set Wenjie completely ...

Anni is injured when she tries to stop Wenjie and Jason from fighting. She needs surgery and decides to bear with the pain without anesthesia, as it would affect her baby. Ke'er is in Lida's ward with Junrong when Junrong receives a message. Her suspicions are aroused when Junrong rushes off. Junrong goes out to meet Yongyan. He still regards the latter as his brother and agrees to give him money to escape. Xuezhi's condition takes a turn for the worse and she suffers persistent nose bleeds. Wenjie is sad she may leave him soon. Unexplainably, she sees images of him ...

Yongyan locks Anni up and tells her that Wenjie killed Xuezhi when he attempted to kill Lida. Anni is utterly disappointed when Yongyan vows to let all her loved ones die one after another. Uncle Chen takes Wenjie to see Xuezhi one last time. Yongyan turns up and discovers it is a trap schemed by Wenjie. Xuezhi has merely feigned death. During the tussle, she is injured, but the police manage to capture Yongyan. Yongyan refuses to reveal where Anni is. Wenjie learns about Yongyan's real parentage and decides to use Lida to make Yongyan reveal Anni's whereabouts. ...