Jiutian Comics' original short play "I'm Reborn as a Detective in the Deep Palace" is an officially authorized adaptation of the novel.
The pig-killing girl Jiang Cuihua dies unexpectedly and travels back to time as Jiang Zhiyue, a scholar rushing to take the exam, and is caught in a life-and-death crisis for her father and daughter. In a desperate situation, she awakened to listen to the voice of all things, the Golden Finger, and became the number one scholar in high school, stirring up trouble in the court. She outsmarted corrupt officials, thoroughly investigated food corruption, uncovered the prince's poisonous schemes, and broke through the disguise of the eldest prince who was suffering from a black belly. The two work together to break the conspiracy, expose the shocking secret, save each other, and finally work together to calm down the storm, obtain the imperial decree to marry, and live together in a prosperous age.
