The Frail Coroner Wants to Keep a Low Profile, but the Prince Keeps Unmasking Her

Pei Ran is frail, yet the last heir to the Pei family's herbal medicine shop. Disguised as a man, she slips into the Ministry of Justice and makes a name for herself in the “investigative selection” with her remarkable forensic skills, stunning everyone by identifying the truth behind a case of “charcoal poisoning” at a glance.

What she doesn't know is that the seemingly indolent clerk is actually Prince Mu, a member of the imperial family. Smelling the mugwort fragrance on her clothes, he smiles and searches the household registers across the city, only to find no record of her.

On a rainy night, he knocks on the medicine shop's door himself. “I've come to seek treatment.”

Pei Ran grips the charcoal pencil hidden in her sleeve, her thoughts churning. This isn't a request for treatment at all. He's here to uncover her secret identity...