Xie Yunshu, the capital’s most eligible young gentleman, flees an imperial marriage decree and becomes the county magistrate of Taoyuan County. He hopes for a quiet life, but instead meets a “young man” who is always found hovering around murder scenes: a coroner.
The coroner, Su Qing, examines corpses with uncanny skill. Calm and decisive, she treats him like a brother, and together they solve one strange case after another. Xie Yunshu admires her immensely, until one day he realizes: Why does his heart race whenever he looks at his “brother”?
Oh no. Could he be attracted to men?
The county magistrate flees back to the capital overnight and confesses his orientation to his parents. Sitting through a disguised matchmaking banquet, he suddenly sees his “Brother Su” in a flowing skirt, radiant as a figure in a painting. She is Su Qingyin, daughter of the former head of the Imperial Medical Academy.
Xie Yunshu: “...!!!”
Is there still time to explain that he’s actually straight?
