An Eighties Forensic Pathologist Helps Her Family Get Rich

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Blurb:

After working as a forensic pathologist for five years, Yan Yuzhen wakes up in 1985.

The good news: She’s still a forensic pathologist.

The bad news: In this era, forensic pathology is an even colder bench than most.

The autopsy room is in the basement, the scalpels are secondhand discards from the surgery department, and outsiders trust the criminal investigation team but think forensic pathologists are “bad luck.”

Meanwhile, her poor relatives are so eager to freeload that they practically want to suck her dry.

It’s a hellish start. She’s destitute, and every kind of hardship is pushing her to quit and go into business, as the times demand.

Until she touches her first corpse.

The mangled limbs before her eyes reassemble themselves into the dead person’s intact body, like a hologram, replaying the cause of death right in front of her.

At that moment, she knows there’s no turning back.

From then on, her scalpel flashes, and she gives voice to the silent dead.

The case of two bodies burned together: She digs the hidden culprit out of the charred remains.

The corpse cooked in a restaurant: A single finger bone turns the whole case around.

The body dumped from a train: She reconstructs hundreds of pieces and finds the dead a place to rest.

One incredibly difficult major case after another is brought to light beneath her scalpel. The police station’s solve rate skyrockets, and the once-overlooked forensic team becomes the hottest department around overnight.

She leads her family out of hardship, step by step, and pushes the country’s forensic techniques significantly forward.

Under the glare of the media lights, a reporter thrusts a microphone toward her and asks, “Dr. Yan, how do you manage to find the crucial evidence so precisely in a corpse?”

Yan Yuzhen simply closes her eyes and says softly, “Listen! The body is speaking.”

[Reader’s Guide]

1. A feel-good power fantasy; the golden finger serves the plot.

2. The author is not a professional forensic pathology student. The forensic details in the story are sourced from books and the internet.

3. The blurb has been revised, but the central premise remains unchanged.

4. One true pairing, happy ending, a sweet romance by my own definition. The male lead isn’t just part of the scenery (probably?).

5. Remember to put Quagua somewhere sunny on your bookshelf. Raise me without a care, and I’ll blossom all on my own!

Theme: Forensic pathologists speak for the dead.