TV drama highlights real-life graft cases

In a luxuriously decorated big house, a prosecutor opens a refrigerator. Its cold interior, up to the farthest corner, is lined with wads of currency notes. He lifts the mattress of a double bed. Beneath it is laid out a bed of hard cash. Then he removes the front of a false wall only to encounter a neatly stacked up real wall of yuan.

This is a sketch from In the Name of the People, a popular TV drama that shows how a prosecutor investigated a corruption case and dug out all the suspects.

According to huan.tv, a domestic TV big data website, the very night it was first broadcast (on March 28), it got the top audience rating, breaking the monthly record. Its audience rating is twice that of the runner-up, the live China-Iran soccer match on the same day.