Huang Xiaodao is the most laid-back coroner in Daming Prefecture.
He inherited his father’s profession and has no lofty ambitions.
He doesn’t seek promotion or riches. He just wants to coast peacefully until retirement and collect his ten taels of silver each month.
Then one day
The wife of Prefect Niu Zhe died suddenly in her bedroom.
No one in all of Daming Prefecture dared take the case.
Everyone’s gaze fell on the young man wiping his knife in the corner.
“Huang Xiaodao, solve this case and I’ll recommend you for office and set you on the path to government service!”
“My lord, I just examine corpses. I don’t know how to be an official.”
“Then what do you want?”
“Overtime pay. Three taels of silver.”
The dead can’t speak, but Huang Xiaodao’s knife can.
He can make corpses talk and clear the names of wronged souls.
But no one can make him, enter politics.
AI article, the preface does not match the postscript