Lin Yan is a high school senior obsessed with mystery plots and schemes, a rebellious boy who sees the classroom as a prison. His greatest dream is to become a great detective, but he is trapped beneath an endless mountain of exam papers. One night, while staying up late watching a mystery drama, he suddenly transmigrates into the body of an obscure little eunuch in the imperial palace.
The inner palace is a treacherous maze, where case after unsolved case remains open and a sealed-room mystery has stumped the assembled officials. No one expects this seemingly meek little eunuch to possess the razor-sharp imagination of a modern mystery fan. With keen powers of observation and meticulous reasoning, he follows the clues and solves countless old cases that once seemed impossible to investigate. He even dares to analyze human nature and uncover the truth before the emperor. Step by step, he goes from being a nobody in a corner of the Cold Palace to becoming a renowned “Chief Palace Detective.”
More incredibly, while investigating a secret case within the palace, he runs into his high school deskmate, who transmigrated alongside him: the rival who used to fight him over mystery novels! His former deskmate has become a young physician in the Imperial Medical Academy. The two modern high schoolers, now posing as a eunuch and a physician, join forces to investigate cases in the strict confines of the imperial court. They must evade the suspicions of the powerful and overcome one crisis after another, all while their mismatched identities lead to countless ridiculous mishaps.
The court is rife with undercurrents, the imperial harem is full of intrigue, and humor intertwines with mystery as friendship goes hand in hand with danger. Watch this “detective duo” write a legendary tale of crime-solving in the ancient imperial court, at once hilarious and heart-pounding.
