Shen Wan, a modern forensic doctor, transformed into the daughter of a widower. When she opened her eyes, she saw the first unjust case in the twelfth year of Qingyuan.
When the old man insisted that the corpse of the man floating in the river was "drowned", she took off the broken crystal by the river and grinded out the first magnifying glass of this era. There was a thread of blue-green silk between her fingernails, and not a grain of algae was visible in her lungs. She used the embroidery needle as evidence and pronounced the verdict in public: "This man was strangled to death with silk and then dumped."
Lu Zheng, the new judge of Dali Temple, Lema Riverside, his dark brown eyes reflected the girl's straight back. He watched her use ink mixed with sesame oil to show her fingerprints, cut bamboo as a ruler to measure the world; he watched her dig out the ash-free truth from the throats of scorched corpses in the ancestral hall, and use the growth of maggots to determine the three-month date of the murder in the dry well.
Summoned to the capital, she created a poison test paper and found arsenic in the throat of the imperial minister. She improved the prism and showed the ink marks on the imperial examination papers. Lu Zheng protected her from open and hidden arrows, and she broke the fog of injustice for the world.
From a sewing needle in Qingshan County, to a room full of copper and iron in the "Department of Punishments" in the capital. When an old case involved secrets in the palace, the Queen Mother was furious and sealed the Criminal Instruments Department. She wrote "Ten Methods for Re-investigation of Mysterious Cases" under house arrest in front of the moonlight through the small window.
During the interrogation of the three departments, she boiled the reagent in front of the court, and the poisonous residue bloomed like a bloody lotus flower. Amid the uproar throughout the court, Lu Zheng issued an imperial edict: "According to the imperial edict, Shen Wan is appointed as a fifth-grade criminal officer, responsible for re-investigating unjust cases in the world."
On the wedding day, the gift was eighty sets of tool improvement drawings. The red candle reflected the pattern of blood stains in the laboratory. He held her hand: "I am marrying the executioner Shen Wan." She smiled and pointed at the first female disciple peeking out of the window: "Did you hear that? Women can spend their whole lives as slaves - as long as we let the evidence speak and vindicate the injustice of the voiceless."
Intent: A story that uses reason to illuminate ignorance, uses professionalism to break prejudice, and uses evidence to challenge authority.