Modern forensic pathologist Chen Yan dies and wakes up in the Great Yong Dynasty, inhabiting the body of a disgraced constable in Shuntian Prefecture who is on the verge of freezing to death.
He opens his eyes in a ruined temple amid a blizzard. The corpse-handling officer declares that "evil spirits claimed the life" and hastily closes the case.
He carries an ancestral notebook of forensic medicine, the "Profound Light Forensic Notes." Modern test data appears on its blank pages, while its yellowed pages can be exchanged for tools from the future.
Poisoned with datura? Pine resin hidden under the fingernails? What you call hauntings and evil spirits are scientific evidence of crime, recorded in my notes!
Corruption and torture in Shuntian Prefecture? I’ll expose the lies with evidence!
The powerful reaching out to cover the sky? I’ll wield the truth as my blade!
In this ancient world, where people readily believe in ghosts and gods but justice is hard to find, Chen Yan relies on a strange notebook and eyes that see every hidden detail to pacify vengeful spirits and catch the real culprits. He will win a fair and shining world for the silent dead!
But as one cold case after another is solved, he gradually uncovers a shocking conspiracy powerful enough to shake the dynasty to its foundations...
The truth is often more terrifying than ghosts.
