A Forensic Doctor Transmigrates to Become a Coroner, Solving Cases with a Modern Edge and Shocking the Court

In the Great Yin dynasty, the fifteenth year of Yong'an. Shen Mozhi, the lowest-ranking coroner at the Qingxi County Office, wakes up with a different soul inside him. A modern forensic examiner transmigrates into the body of a despised ancient coroner: no qualifications, no family wealth, and unable to read. Who in their right mind would take a job handling the dead? On his very first day, he's dragged off to examine a corpse. A paper effigy murder, a locked-room mystery, a River God festival... The whole city is steeped in superstition, and no one believes in science. Luckily, he has his wits about him. The principles behind microscopes, luminol, fingerprint matching, and estimating time of death from body temperature: he uses forensic knowledge to outclass the ancients in solving their mysteries. A paper effigy murder? Human hands. A River God apparition? Murder. A locked-room trick? Mechanical ingenuity. One by one, every eerie case is revealed as a matter of science and human nature. From Qingxi County to the prefectural city, then from the prefectural city to the capital, he solves cases and rises through the ranks. The Blood Lotus Cult's thirty-year conspiracy, a half-million-tael shortfall in the silver vault that exposes a vast web at court, a locked-room murder in a theater, a series of locked-room killings, a prefect's sudden death... The bigger the case, the deeper the waters. When he finally stands in the Ministry of Justice's grand hall, he discovers that the mastermind is closer than he ever imagined. A forensic examiner solves crimes; science delivers justice. There are no ghosts in this world, only people pretending to be ghosts. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.