Lin An, a university student majoring in criminal investigation, wakes up to find himself an eight-year-old boy lying beside a desolate grave, covered in mud.
He has no memories, no idea where he came from, and only the forensic skills of someone from six hundred years in the future.
Seven years later, he is an apprentice corpse examiner scraping by in Jiangning County, known as “Little Coroner Lin.”
By chance, he clears an old man falsely accused of theft at the market.
He doesn't know the old man is Zhu Yuanzhang.
Nor does he know that his face is identical to that of Zhu Xiongying, the imperial grandson who died and was buried seven years ago.
From then on, a pair of unblinking eyes watches over the Ming court. Whenever his investigations lead him to powerful figures and he is about to be crushed, a mysterious force steps in to save him from a fatal blow.
He examines corpses and wounds, finding murderers in the dirt beneath their fingernails; he reconstructs crime scenes and identifies the culprit from the spray of blood.
From the streets to the county yamen, into the prefectural city, and on to the capital, he tears open the Ming's darkest cases one by one.
Yet two things remain beyond his understanding:
**Why is someone always secretly saving him whenever his life hangs by a thread?**
**Where did the broken jade pendant carved with a coiling dragon at his waist come from?**
It's a tie-breaking update in one go. It's quite interesting. I'm looking forward to getting into the plot of the Great Court.