When modern forensic doctor Shen Yan opened his eyes, he became the son of the most despicable gangster in Daqian.
My father was falsely accused of swapping corpses and was executed three days later.
In order to save his father, Shen Yan re-examined the body of the woman in red found in the river.
"She didn't drown, she was sunk into the river after her death."
"She is not a brothel girl, she has a government household registration card hidden in her belly."
"The strangest thing is - according to the Daqian household registration record, she died ten years ago."
From the nameless female corpse to the mysterious case of a ghost, from a small county widower to the prosecutor of Dali Temple, Shen Yan gradually discovered that the truly terrifying thing about this dynasty was never the dead talking.
But there are people who can make living people disappear from the world and let dead people continue to live under another name.
Many years later, Shen Yan stood in the court hall of Dali Temple, facing the dignitaries of the Manchu Dynasty, and said only one sentence:
"Corpses can't speak, so living people can't lie for them."
Even little people have spring