When she woke, she found herself in a gloomy funeral home. Using her professional forensic knowledge, she saw through the magistrate's staged “suicide by hanging” and saved a scholar who had been falsely accused, but also drew deadly danger upon herself. At the critical moment, she was rescued by Pei Jingheng, an assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice passing through the area. This cold-faced powerful official was investigating a series of murders. Astonished by Su Zhi's forensic techniques, which were far ahead of their time, he took her along under the pretext of having her help solve the case.
