A Handsome Young Genius at Solving Cases Joins the Dali Temple

At the autopsy table, she makes the dead speak; in the halls of power, she clears the names of the living.

One charcoal pencil, two lifetimes of memories, and a three-foot autopsy table where she solves the strangest cases in the land.

Ten delicate fingers, a hundred clever tricks, and a thousand palace chambers stirred into turmoil.

Gongsun Yan, a top modern forensic pathologist, opens her eyes to find herself the daughter of a disgraced official, awaiting execution.

Her family’s blood feud remains unresolved, yet the executioner’s blade already hangs over her neck. Amid the flames at the execution ground, she assumes the identity of the dead, ties up her hair, hides her womanhood, and enters a man’s world under the name Mu Yunyi.

In the imperial examinations, she uses chemistry to detect poisoned ink and psychology to break deadlocks. Her brilliance shines at court, where she is named the most “beautiful” top scholar in history and sent straight to the dreaded Court of Judicial Review.

There, she discovers that her superior is none other than Xuanyuan Hongyu, the “Living King of Hell,” whose power holds sway over the court.

The cold-faced prince commands the criminal courts and holds a vast army. The first time he meets her, he makes her run a hundred laps and subjects her to a relentless scolding.

But he gradually discovers that this “frail scholar” has a gaze sharp as a blade when examining corpses, uses methods no one has ever heard of to solve cases, and offers battlefield strategies that leave the entire army in awe.

Worse still, he finds himself harboring feelings for this “man” that he shouldn’t have!

As one mysterious case after another unfolds deep within the palace:

A gifted candidate at the examination compound bleeds from every orifice, while a blood painting on the wall horrifies all who see it;

Bones lie piled in a pit outside the capital, and young nobles die in bizarre circumstances;

Silver earmarked for the national treasury’s river-dike repairs vanishes without a trace, its trail entangled in a web of intrigue...

She dissects corpses, uses chemical reactions to reveal hidden evidence, and builds psychological profiles, wielding modern forensic science to unravel one seemingly unsolvable mystery after another.

With each case she solves, she comes one step closer to the truth behind her family’s tragedy, and one step closer to a deadly trap.

Meanwhile, on countless sleepless nights, he tosses and turns: