The Coroner’s Record of Rising Through the Ranks

During the Zhenyuan era of the Tang Dynasty, Jing Wan'er is forced into the palace laundry as a servant after her father is falsely accused. Drawing on her family's medical knowledge, she becomes a secret "speaker for the dead," deciphering the final words of the deceased at mass graves. The cold-faced detective Pei Tan, seeking the truth behind his father's death, has this disgraced official's daughter brought out of the palace. Together, they form a "bone-detective duo," beginning with a string of palace maid murders and gradually uncovering a shocking conspiracy spanning seven years. When a silver autopsy needle points to a royal secret, and a blood-written letter from the previous dynasty implicates powerful figures of the present, these two pawns in one another's hands develop genuine feelings amid life and death. Faced with the "Seven Star Alliance," a force capable of toppling the Tang Dynasty, can the imperial physician's daughter and the deputy minister of justice clear their families' names amid the whirlpool of power?