The Bone-Painting Examiner: The Coroner Princess and the Cunning Heir
At a Southern Chu execution ground, blood spatters white bones as coroner Su Zhenfeng is wrongfully executed. Before he dies, he leaves behind a cryptic clue: a “white-bone cross.” His legitimate daughter, Su Ningwei, vows to clear his name. Disguised as a man, she enters Shuntian Prefecture under the apprentice name Su San. With her exceptional forensic skills, she solves one strange case after another, only to unexpectedly find herself betrothed to the cunning heir Lu Jingyuan.
Bound by a marriage contract, they each have their own agenda: she uses the prince's household to investigate the old case, while he relies on her to unravel the court's mysteries. Locked-room murders, trails of missing bones, and poison cases along the Silk Road: every corpse conceals a shocking conspiracy, and the cross-shaped mark keeps appearing, eventually leading to an old case of the Crown Prince's rebellion from twenty years ago.
She is a cool, sharp-tongued woman coroner who never fails to solve a case. He is the gentle yet calculating Heir of Jing'an, with a keen mind and hidden edge. From using each other to standing by one another through life and death, from court intrigue to pursuing criminals through the martial world, they join forces to uncover layer after layer of deception. But everyone around them proves to be more than they seem. Even the seemingly harmless secondary consort and the loyal guards conceal secrets of their own.
As the truth comes to light, the empress's uncle's rebellion, the family's wrongful conviction, and a palace coup unfold together. She uses bones as evidence, he wields political power as a blade, and together they defend justice and love amid bloodshed. Who says a woman can't be a coroner? Who says a marriage of convenience can't hold true love? Follow the coroner princess and the cunning heir as they use bones to uncover the truth and love as their shield, writing a legend in an age of peace and prosperity!
