The Coroner Works Hard to Ward Off Evil Today, Too

Su Jiuli, the Court of Judicial Review’s newest forensic intern, has one fatal weakness: he’s afraid of ghosts. When he discovers that every corpse retains fragments of the deceased’s memories, he has no choice but to adopt his “eyes-closed autopsy” approach. Armed with modern forensic knowledge, he solves bizarre cases with ridiculous techniques like “corpse-calming feather duster” and “garlic exorcism.” Yet he gets drawn into an even stranger series of incidents: Is the courtesan’s corpse staying fresh because she secretly eats the offerings every day? Is the key evidence in the imperial examination cheating case hidden in the victim’s appendix? And the silver-haired prince who keeps appearing at crime scenes seems able to see the secret Su Jiuli most wants to hide...