The Blue-Robed Healer of Calamities (2025)

Princess Chu Zhaoning of Great Chu’s Yongning was sick of silks and jewels. All she loved was the gleam of the Dali Temple’s blades. So she disguised herself as a man, took the name “Zhao Ning,” and roamed the martial world. Her skill at examining bones and dissecting corpses surpassed that of many veteran coroners. On her first day disguised as a man, a refined young man in blue robes stopped her at a ruined temple. “A young woman joining a coroner’s ranks is still more capable than those men who do nothing but eat, drink, and be merry.” He turned out to be “Shen Yan,” the man implicated by a clue in the martial world’s command token. They started off at odds, but soon hit it off. One followed the token to track down leads, while the other examined corpses to clear the innocent. Amid their banter, they became partners in solving one cold case after another. Then an imperial decree demanding a political marriage summoned her back to the palace. The sight of civilians displaced by war on the border made her clutch the half of a cloud-patterned jade pendant hidden in her sleeve. She knelt in the Golden Hall. “I am willing to trade my status as a princess for the people’s peace.” At the palace banquet, the prince sent to negotiate peace from the enemy state stood alone in black robes. Chu Zhaoning’s fingertips trembled. Those swordlike brows and frosty eyes belonged unmistakably to the man in blue who had said he would clear his mother’s name...