The Ancient Evidence Shop: The Dead Can Talk

After transmigrating, Gu Tingyun takes over an ancient evidence shop on the verge of closing. She can hear a fragment of a final utterance from a dead person's belongings, but that fragment is not the truth, and it can never serve as grounds for a conviction. An embroidered shoe dredged from a river leads to a death someone tried to cover up; a snapped mooring rope leads to a missing child and falsified wage records; an old copper lock brings her father's cold case back to the capital. Others fear the dead speaking. Gu Tingyun only fears the living leaving no evidence behind. Examining objects, tracing clues, checking accounts, gathering proof: she will turn every final word no one can hear into evidence anyone can verify.