New Record of Clearing Wrongs

In the tenth year of Chunyou's reign in the Southern Song Dynasty, the "Collection of Cleansing Wrongs", which will be remembered for generations to come, has become famous. Its author, Song Ci, has been dead for more than half a year. Song Ci's only apprentice during his lifetime, he learned the skills of autopsy and case determination from his master for two years. The sentence he learned the most was: "Prison matters should not be more important than large-scale trials, large-scale trials should not be more important than first love, and first love should not be more important than examination." Master is gone, but cases are still coming. A strange case was reported in Yuhang County: a cooper disappeared. There was blood in the house, but no body. His wife had nightmares every night, and she dreamed that her husband told her that the murderer was a butcher from a neighboring village and that his body was hidden in the cellar. The county government went to search, but the cellar was empty. The woman hit the pillar in the courtroom and cried out for injustice, her head was bleeding - but without a body, she could not be convicted of murder. That was the first lesson he learned from his master: not everyone will lie, but everyone will miss it. And the truth is often hidden in those places that are missed. From this day on, Zou Zilong began to face one bizarre case after another alone...