On the first day after I transmigrated, Regent Xiao Lin pinned me to the rack.
He gripped my chin and demanded, "Who sent you?"
I said, "Your ancestor sent me to collect your corpse."
I was the illegitimate child the late emperor had left behind in Jiangnan, and on my first day back at the palace, they mistook me for a spy. The four powerful nobles who controlled the court treated me like a plaything, especially Xiao Lin. He imprisoned and humiliated me, forcing me to kneel and declaring that bastards like me deserved to crawl through life.
But they didn't know I had been a forensic doctor before I transmigrated.
I examined corpses, identified poisons, and dissected people's hearts. I turned the palace's cesspool upside down.
Later, Xiao Lin held the charred corpse he'd pulled from the fire, and his hair turned white overnight.
