The Coroner Who Reads Hearts Through Bone

Her entire family was sentenced to death, and she was the only survivor.

Clutching half a charred waist token, Shen Hegui crawled out of a pile of corpses at a funeral home in Suzhou. She became a female coroner whom everyone avoided.

People called her ill-omened, claiming that women who touched the bones of the dead offended Heaven. They blocked the gates of the Court of Judicial Review to keep her out. But she was determined to use her scalpel to dig the real killers out of the bones, find clues among the rotting corpses, solve bizarre cases, clear the innocent, and uncover the shocking massacre that wiped out the Shen family!

From a lone orphan at a funeral home to the Great Yong dynasty’s first female chief judicial investigator, she examined bones and hearts, and dispensed justice throughout the land.

Everyone feared her heart was as cold as iron. Only Gu Hengbo, the Defender General, stood by her for ten whole years.

Others urged her to let go of the past and move on. He alone stayed where he was. “However long you need to investigate, I’ll wait.”

She spent ten years overturning the case, and he waited ten years. When she finally laid down her armor and looked back, he was still there.