The Blind Female Coroner: A Lantern to Light the Long Night

[Mystery and Crime Solving + Female Ensemble + No Romance + Court Intrigue + Hard-Boiled Deduction]

A great fire wipes out the entire Shen family, a family of renowned physicians.

Shen Qingzhu, the family’s illegitimate daughter, narrowly escapes death but is left blind. Weak and sickly, she becomes a blind fortune-teller living in a ruined temple.

A bizarre series of murders rocks the capital, and the Dali Temple is at a loss.

A blind woman enters the morgue, leaning on her cane.

“The victim didn’t hang herself. There’s poison in the spaces between her bones. It was murder.”

Everyone laughs at her, wondering what a blind woman could know about examining a corpse.

But later, she uses her keen hearing to pinpoint locations and reads bones to uncover the truth, solving strange cases and clearing the wrongfully accused as she brings one powerful minister after another crashing down.

The Dali Temple’s female junior minister wields a sword for her, while a sharp-tongued shopkeeper gathers intelligence for her.

When Shen Qingzhu taps her cane against the ground, the entire court trembles.

The enemies who framed the Shen family all those years ago shake in their cells on death row.

Shen Qingzhu, her eyes covered with white silk, smiles faintly:

It’s not me who’s blind in this world. It’s your consciences.