Her Body, His Case: 108 Days as a Female Coroner After a Straight-Laced Detective Transmigrates
This story follows the bizarre experience of Zhao Lei, a thoroughly straight-laced detective. A serious injury during an investigation sends his consciousness through time and into the body of Su Qingdai, a female coroner in ancient times.
During his 108 days in the past, Zhao Lei uses modern forensic methods to crack one strange case after another in the guise of a female coroner. From the locked-room mystery of a groom who hanged himself to the elaborate plot behind a deadly mushroom poisoning, his no-nonsense autopsies upend everyone’s ideas about female coroners. Along the way, he clashes with the icy Prince Xiao Jue, and the two go from mutual dislike to investigating side by side. As they unravel the empress’s poisoning and a cult’s sacrificial conspiracy, they gradually fall for each other. Zhao Lei also discovers that his transmigration is tied to a sacrificial ritual lasting 108 days, part of a conspiracy spanning past and present.
After foiling the plot, Zhao Lei returns to the modern world. On the 108th day after he awakens in the hospital, he meets a painter who is identical to Xiao Jue in looks, temperament, and even habits. Bound by a connection that transcends time, they make a promise to await their destined reunion.
In the end, Xiao Jue of the past vanishes after fulfilling his mission, while the modern painter Xiao Jue also journeys through time. When the two souls, weathered by years of hardship, finally break through the barriers of convention and time, they sit side by side beneath the sunset, their hair white with age. The cases of the past, the extraordinary journey through time, and the love buried deep within them all become the gentlest of lifelong companions. This legend, which began with “her body” and ended with “his heart,” is a moving testament to a love spanning a thousand years.
