The Healer's Ashen Schemes

A few important warnings: male protagonist's perspective, hard-core political intrigue, evidence-based mystery solving, and absolutely no romance! No romantic tension! The female lead is an independent power broker! Don't ship anyone!

If you were born in a slum in Jizhou City and couldn't afford treatment for a serious illness, what would you do?

Doctor Su, on the wild-grass slope north of the city, offers free medical care. He takes only evidence of corrupt officials' crimes.

No one knows that every injustice he investigates and every person he saves costs him a real piece of his lifespan. He knows better than anyone the day he will die, yet he still sets up his stall every day.

Until one day, a chipped bowl and a medicine spoon with a hidden groove lead to a massacre from fifteen years ago, in which an entire household was wiped out!

The powerful think they are hunting down a dying ant. Only at the very end do they realize he has used his own bones to forge ironclad evidence that will nail every last one of them!

A female traveling doctor, a poison-tipped rope dart strapped to her back, watches coldly. "You're risking your life to set this trap. What for?"

No romance, no System, hard-core political intrigue, high-IQ twists. See how a sickly, crazed man calculates the deaths of the entire court of powerful officials!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.