Proof in Blood: The Cold-Faced Prince's Substitute Bride, the Forensic Doctor

Forensic pathologist Jiang Yunyao unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of the stand-in bride of the cold-faced Prince Jing, Zhou Yanheng. Faced with a string of murders in the prince’s estate, she uses modern forensic knowledge to solve one strange case after another, only to invite even deeper suspicion from the prince. When Zhou Yanheng grips her by the throat and demands to know if she is a “spy,” she smiles and presses a dagger into his hand. “If Your Highness doesn’t believe me, cut open my heart and see for yourself.”

The blade sinks three inches into her flesh, and his hand begins to shake. Thus begins a deadly game of trust and truth. Poison and weapons in an abandoned alchemy workshop, the remains of a noble consort in a villa on the western hills, a shocking conspiracy hatched by the empress dowager deep within the palace... When all the evidence points to a court massacre from more than a decade ago, they are forced to become allies in life and death.

Caught in the maelstrom of imperial power struggles, two people who don’t believe in love repeatedly risk their lives for each other. When the truth finally comes to light in the Xuanzheng Hall, they stand hand in hand atop the white marble steps, with shattered conspiracies at their feet and a kingdom restored behind them.

This is the tale of a forensic princess consort who wins over the ancient world with her expertise, going from deadly enemies to lovers with a cold-faced prince as they uncover the dynasty’s darkest secrets together.