From the Start, I Performed Autopsies: My Scalpel Won the Young Marshal's Heart

Song Anning, a leading forensic pathologist of the 21st century, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Republic of China era, becoming the eldest daughter of the once-prosperous Song family in Shanghai, now fallen on hard times and jilted by her fiance. To make ends meet, she uses a scalpel to knock on the door of the police station and becomes a renowned female forensic examiner.

The "living corpse" bell ringer at the midnight clock tower, the "skinless" bride floating on the Huangpu River, the popular dancer found "cursed" to death backstage at the Paramount... One bizarre case after another appears to have the supernatural at its heart, but beneath her scalpel, each is revealed as a human conspiracy.

Wielding science as her spear, she pierces the false splendor of Shanghai's foreign concessions. But she unwittingly gets caught up in a deadly Game of Thrones with the mysterious Guixu Society, and draws the attention of the "Young Marshal" Fu Yunshen, a man whose power holds sway over Shanghai and whose identity is shrouded in mystery. At times he's a flippant chamber of commerce chairman; at others, a ruthless warlord. He repeatedly comes to her aid in moments of danger, yet seems to be using her to investigate an even deeper secret.

When the scalpel faces a Game of Thrones, and scientific reason encounters the depths of human nature, how will the two join forces in this sleepless city to speak for the dead and seek justice for the living?