[Female Coroner × Imperial Guard | Mystery, Transmigration, and Crime-Solving]
Modern forensic pathology PhD Gu Tingxue blew up her lab and woke to find herself the daughter of a disgraced official, lying in a mass grave. Surrounded by rotting corpses, she used the body of a man disguised as a woman to unravel the bizarre truth behind a tribute girl’s disappearance three years earlier. She also unexpectedly activated the “Spring Lantern on Bone,” a device much like a UV autopsy lamp.
To clear her family’s name, she braved the accusations that “women performing autopsies bring ill fortune” and forced her way into the Bone Inspection Bureau, which only accepted men. She identified suicide by examining the hyoid bone, revealed strangulation marks with phosphorescence, and determined causes of death from maggots. Using modern forensic knowledge, she solved bizarre cases such as “a corpse giving birth” and “a series of flayings,” unaware that she had caught the attention of Shen Jue, the powerful commander of the Northern Branch of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
This obsessive, fastidious guard officer had an incurable aversion to filth, yet treated her as an exception. “Your knife understands bones better than my Embroidered Spring Saber.” When the daughter of a disgraced official meets a living King of Hell, the autopsy table becomes their battlefield and their only salvation.
The mastermind behind the Gu family massacre, “Mr. Jiu,” emerges from the shadows. His scheme to forge weapons from corpses throws the imperial court into turmoil, while Shen Jue’s mysterious affliction and origins, and the secret of Gu Tingxue’s mother’s golden bones, are all intricately bound up in this staggering conspiracy.
“The living can lie, but bones cannot.” She cuts through layers of mist with her autopsy knife, while he guards her with his Embroidered Spring Saber. From the mass grave to the Golden Throne Hall, they become each other’s scabbard and swear an oath in blood: they will make every skeleton speak and clear every unjust case beneath the spring lanterns!
