Dayin Dynasty, Yong'an fifteenth year. Shen Mozhi, the lowest-level widower in the Qingxi County government office, woke up with a different soul.
A modern forensic doctor traveled through time and became an ancient coward with no fame, no property, and no literacy. Who would be a decent person to do the job of touching dead people? On the first day after waking up, he was taken to do an autopsy: paper man murder, secret room mystery, river god ceremony... The city is full of superstition, no one believes in science.
Fortunately, he had some brains. Principles of microscopes, luminol reagents, fingerprint comparison, corpse temperature estimation - using forensic knowledge to reduce dimensionality to combat ancient mysteries. Paper figures kill people? Man-made. The river god appears? Murder. A secret room conspiracy? Mechanism. A series of strange cases were restored to science and human nature under his hands.
From Qingxi County to Fucheng, and from Fucheng to the capital, he solves cases and gets promoted. The Blood Lotus Sect has been hiding a conspiracy for thirty years. A deficit of 500,000 taels in the bank led to a huge network in the court, serial murders in secret rooms on the stage, sudden deaths of prefects... The bigger the case, the deeper the water. When he finally stood in the lobby of the Criminal Department, he discovered that the mastermind behind the scenes was closer than he thought.
Forensic medicine solves cases and science solves prison sentences. There are no ghosts in this world, only people pretending to be ghosts
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.