Wen Yu, a top modern forensic doctor who specializes in skeletal pathology and toxicological analysis, woke up as a "living corpse" next to a mass grave in the capital city of Dayin after a laboratory accident.
She was taken back to the autopsy shed by the old widower Wang Ruoshou and named "Wen Shigu" - to collect the truth from the bones of the deceased.
Dayinwu returned to a lowly family, and women were not allowed to enter the public domain. No one was ever willing to listen to what the dead said.
You can warm your bones and hear it.
A family of three died mysteriously in a mine. The man lost all his joints, the woman strangled herself to death, and the child was smiling. She peeled away the layers of disguise and read two lost poisons on the bones, a long-planned extermination. Under the stone slab, there is a mark of "Eye with Vertical Pupil", which leads to an old case of child exchange that was erased twenty years ago.
Since then, every corpse sent to the autopsy shed has the same symbol. Official family members who drowned, generals who died violently, palace maids who "died" of illness... Died in different ways, but the same chronic secret medicine implanted in the bone marrow was hidden in their bones.
Someone is using living people to test poison, using corpses to make medicine, and using the lives of an entire dynasty to feed an abandoned medicine cellar buried deep under the imperial city.
Wen Shigu went from the mass grave to the Dali Temple, and from a humble widow to a female imperial official. Standing next to her was Fu Yan, the minister of Dali Temple—the man who had spent seven years in a secret prison for his brother, was covered in old wounds, and was as cold as a knife.
He didn't trust anyone but every scar she found.
The living can lie, but the dead cannot.
And she is the mouth of the dead.
Purpose: The truth never loses its weight because of its humble status. A woman who was stepped on at the bottom, with the dirtiest hands and the coldest bones, spoke for all the silent dead - the sharpest knife in the world is not authority, but a person who refuses to shut up.