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A Life for a Life

iQIYI Ended Drama • Crime

1 Season · 13 Episodes · Premiered July 21, 2024 · Ended April 23, 2025

In the 1980s, the top student of the police academy, Du Xiang Dong, was assigned against his wishes to a detention center. Two suspects escaped from the jail; one died, and the other got away. Du Xiang Dong blamed himself and impulsively resigned. For the next twenty years, he found himself in a battle of wits with the escaped suspect, Xu Wen Geng. Both followed their own ways of life, engaging in a strategic duel amidst the tides of the times.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

13 episodes

E01

Episode 1

Fri, Apr 18 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 48 min

E02

Episode 2

Fri, Apr 18 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 49 min

E03

Episode 3

Fri, Apr 18 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 35 min

E04

Episode 4

Sat, Apr 19 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 46 min

E05

Episode 5

Sat, Apr 19 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 52 min

E06

Episode 6

Sun, Apr 20 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 41 min

E07

Episode 7

Sun, Apr 20 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 36 min

E08

Episode 8

Mon, Apr 21 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 51 min

E09

Episode 9

Tue, Apr 22 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 34 min

E10

Episode 10

Wed, Apr 23 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 41 min

E11

Episode 11

Wed, Apr 23 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 46 min

E12

Episode 12

Wed, Apr 23 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 33 min

E13

Episode 13

Wed, Apr 23 2025 12:00 PM GMT+0000 52 min

Cast

Qin Hao

Qin Hao as Du Xiang Dong

Han Geng

Han Geng as Xu Wen Guo

Elaine Zhong

Elaine Zhong as Liu Fen Fang

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