For forensic pathologist Qin Xuanxuan, the scalpel is her pen and the autopsy report her testimony. Before the cold autopsy table, she listens to the dead's final, voiceless words. She believes that corpses never lie, and that every carefully disguised crime will be exposed under the scrutiny of science and detail. A body burned on a rainy night, bones in a park, a corpse floating on a lake, a frozen body in a cold-storage warehouse, a string of murders targeting models, a massacre at an old mansion... Ten horrifying cases and a hundred chapters of an intricately connected hunt for the truth. Every corpse conceals a truth someone tried to bury; every autopsy is a direct confrontation with evil. Faced with layers of baffling mysteries, from perfect alibis and locked-room tricks to bodies dumped after death and copycat crimes, Qin Xuanxuan draws on her formidable forensic expertise to find overlooked, fatal clues in charred remains, old bones, tiny puncture marks, trace fibers, and concealed poisons. She does more than reconstruct the process of death. Through the bodies, she comes to understand human nature, uncovering the greed, jealousy, resentment, and obsession in a killer's heart beneath lies and disguises. Behind every case, whether rooted in business rivalries, romantic entanglements, broken family ties, or an obsession with revenge, lies a complex and twisted human heart. She solves bizarre cases with her expertise and sees into human nature through the evidence. With science, she tears away the veil and lets the silent dead speak, bringing justice to those wronged. When the scalpel falls, no crime can remain hidden. She gives the dead a voice and wields evidence as a sword, holding fast to her respect for life and her eternal devotion to justice.
