The Corpse Whisperer: Deadly Clues in the Dead of Night

Two senior doctors at City No. 1 Hospital suddenly die one after another. Their deaths are bizarre, and the killer’s methods are chillingly precise.

In the hospital, gripped by fear, nurse Jiang Zhu clenches the stethoscope in her hand. Others see disputes between doctors and patients, but she detects murder in the faint contraction of the victims’ pupils and the button in a corner of the hospital room that doesn’t belong there.

She was supposed to inherit the family business and be a good nurse, but her deep-seated passion for criminal investigations makes it impossible for her to ignore the details everyone else overlooks. When criminal investigation captain Wen Zixuan seals off the scene with his major crimes team, the nurse who usually watches quietly from the sidelines suddenly hands him a note covered in suspicious details: “There’s wax under the victim’s fingernails, and someone tampered with the sedatives in the bedside cabinet.”

Wen Zixuan raises an eyebrow. This woman’s powers of observation are even sharper than a professional forensic pathologist’s.

As the investigation deepens, a link between the two murders emerges: both victims had been lead surgeons in the same failed plastic surgery. The female patient who disappeared had once written a blood-coagulated curse in her medical record: “I’ll make every one of you pay with your lives.”

The surgical theater’s shadowless lamps flicker, and the smell of disinfectant mingles with a rusty, metallic sweetness. Jiang Zhu looks at the bloodstained anesthetic needle in Wen Zixuan’s hand and suddenly remembers what the head nurse once said: “When they wheeled that female patient into the operating room, she wasn’t screaming in pain. She was screaming for help…”

When a serial killer’s blade turns toward its next target, Jiang Zhu realizes she has long been swept into this bloody revenge carried out in the name of “justice.” And behind the truth Wen Zixuan is pursuing lies a human heart more terrifying than death.