Jade Ash Pile

Jinhuidui, also known as The Female Coroner's Heart-Dissection Art

A sharp-tongued orphan girl x a scheming strategist

The former dynasty's princess returns to life in the body of a female corpse. As she cuts open her legitimate elder sister's dragon-patterned bodice, she catches a young strategist prying open her ribs with a silver needle to reveal a cinnabar birthmark. A secret capable of changing the world lies there.

"Your Highness, could this body of yours be worth a fortune?" He rubbed the plum-blossom scar at her severed wrist with a bloodstained fingertip.

"This corpse of mine..." Qin Suining pulled open her burial shroud, revealing the unhealed hole from a coffin nail at her waist. "It could buy the entire Jingguo Duke's estate."

When the Imperial Guards dug up the cellar, they found shadow puppets performing a heart-swapping ritual across its walls. Shen Yan's black robes swept past three wax pellets. The most poisonous one was called Virgin's Blood. The imperial jade seal burning in her palm fit with the yellowed edict hidden in his sleeve to form a complete dragon pattern. The Crown Prince whom His Majesty had betrothed to her back then... Qin Suining lifted the corpse of her legitimate younger sister, who had not even had time to change clothes. Whose catamite had he become now?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.