Female-oriented mystery + forensic investigation + strong heroine + decades-old wrongful cases + layers of powerful protectors + serial murders + high-IQ crimes + workplace face-slapping
The trending topic across the internet calls it a suicide by jumping. The team's chain of evidence is airtight, and everyone is ready to close the case as quickly as possible. Only Su Yan, a rookie medical examiner on her first day at work, overturns everyone's conclusions in front of them, relying solely on subtle subcutaneous bruising and trace skin flakes under the victim's fingernails. This wasn't suicide. It was a carefully staged murder.
Zhou Qiming has worked as a medical examiner for twenty years, yet he repeatedly alters autopsy reports, willingly serving as a shield for the wealthy and powerful. Her mentor, who brought her into the field three years ago, had evidence of a series of staged suicides in his hands, but died mysteriously by suicide. Every clue points to the mastermind, Gu Mingshan.
Gas poisoning, a staged fatal fall at a construction site, drowning in a locked room... These seemingly unrelated accidents all bear strikingly similar methods. Behind them lurks a vast, corrupt network of vested interests that has spanned South City for years.
Someone secretly switches evidence and destroys case files. Anonymous threats keep coming, and the killer is skilled at perfectly recreating suicide scenes, even knowing police investigation procedures inside and out.
Public pressure, workplace exclusion, leaks from an insider, and assassins watching from the shadows.
Others believe only confessions and staged crime scenes. Su Yan alone lets the bodies speak, using her scalpel and the tiniest traces left on corpses to tear away layer upon layer of deception. She seeks overdue justice for her wrongfully deceased mentor and the countless victims whose cases were covered up. No supernatural powers, no golden finger: she solves a series of staged suicide cases using only her forensic expertise. The insider's foreshadowing is brilliantly laid.
