Su He Ning's father, Su Zongming, was once the most upright coroner at the Huaining County Yamen. But after being framed in a silk merchant family massacre, he died with his name in disgrace.
Twelve years later, she returned under an assumed name and entered the Huaining County Yamen as the old coroner's niece. Armed with her mastery of ancient bone examination techniques, she went from an overlooked woman coroner to head of the Bone Examination Office, one step at a time.
A body floating in the Jin River, the Li family's poisoning case, a beggar's brutal death, a murder at the academy... Each minor case hides the malice in people's hearts, and every skeleton bears witness to truths left unspoken.
She wields silver needles like blades and uses bones as evidence, exposing disguises and tracking down the real culprits. With help from the sweet-natured constable A Lai, the incognito censor Shen Che, and the loyal servant Uncle Zheng, she also tears open the dark secrets behind the Lu family's trading house and its collusion with officials.
The world believes what it hears. She believes only the bones.
After twelve years of injustice, the truth is finally brought to light by white bones. In this small town, justice finally prevails.
Bones never lie, and the truth is never absent.
