She was the 21st century's ace military doctor and forensic examiner, known as the “Cleaner.” Now she has transmigrated into the orphaned daughter of an official, sold into servitude. She has no golden finger, only a self-made bone knife, a wealth of professional knowledge, and a soul that refuses to bow in a troubled age.
He is the late emperor's youngest son and the current Prince Chen. His achievements inspire his elder brother's suspicion, and he has fallen from a god of war on the battlefield to an idle prince in charge of criminal justice. Cold and indifferent on the surface, he is secretly sharpening his blade in the dark.
At the Youyan charity cemetery, before three nameless corpses, she uses bone marks, bloodstains, and meticulous deduction to make Xiao Jue take notice for the first time of this young woman whose hands are covered in scars.
From then on, he becomes her scabbard, and she becomes his eyes.
Cases of child trafficking, an imperial examination cheating scandal ending in a massacre, the mysterious theft of silver from the national treasury, and a deadly poisoning in a brothel... Behind each bizarre case that shakes the court lies a fierce collision between modern forensic knowledge and the ancient power struggle.
She rises from coroner to female official, from adviser at the prince's residence to tutor to the emperor. Her professional respect for Xiao Jue grows into a bond of mutual trust with their lives in one another's hands. When foreign enemies invade, she joins the army to save the wounded and uses psychological warfare to pacify the borderlands. When a palace coup erupts, a single piece of bloodstained evidence brings down the chief minister's decades-long scheme.
She once took a strange poison to save him, yet even while unconscious she kept piecing together the truth.
He once held the command of every army in the land, but was willing to give it all up just to wake her.
A golden age is not won on the battlefield; it is built.
In the end, she turns down the position of empress and founds the Dasheng Academy of Forensic Science beneath a parasol tree, sowing the seeds of modern criminal investigation a thousand years into the past.
This is both a rigorous forensic detective saga about a woman who transmigrates into the past and an epic of love for country and family intertwined with romance.
She is the one who carries a lamp through the dark, and he promises her a world where she can burn freely.
The writing is clear and calm, and the logic is rigorous. It is worth following.