The Corpse-Talking Hairpin: A Female Coroner’s Secret Cases in the Capital

She is the capital's most mysterious forensic examiner, able to make the dead speak. When she performs an autopsy on the Minister of Rites, she finds half of a dragon-patterned jade pendant inside his heart. It is a royal keepsake that went missing when the late emperor died suddenly twenty years ago! Late one night, the cold-faced commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard knocks on her door: “Would you be willing to strike a deal with me, miss?” From then on, she steps into the turbulent whirlpool of court politics, moving from the autopsy room to the imperial throne hall as she gradually uncovers a shocking secret about the imperial bloodline…