A coroner was a government official in ancient times who specialized in examining corpses, the precursor to the modern forensic pathologist. The practice dates back to the pre-Qin era. Song Ci’s Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified standardized examination procedures and formally established the ancient system for examining bodies and solving cases.
Crime lurks in the human heart, and the law has its gaps.
Bai Xi is specially invited to join a psychological investigation team. Jing Yuhan, who understands ancient coroner examination methods and also has modern forensic expertise, pursues the real culprit through evidence.
Together, they unravel one mystery after another, but come to disagree over the line between good and evil.
One holds fast to the limits of the law, believing the rules can save the world. The other breaks free from the shackles of convention, willing to become a judge outside the bounds of order.
Their ideas of justice clash, but their feelings are hard to sever. Fate brings them together, and in the end they stand on the same side.
Just as they are ready to shed their identities, retire to an ordinary life, and turn away from the world’s good and evil, an invitation quietly arrives.
Welcome, both of you, to the Special Operations Bureau of Another World.
Is the law a fair measure of right and wrong, or an invisible shackle that confines the good and evil in people’s hearts?
The author has no professional qualifications in forensic medicine or criminal investigation. The professional knowledge, case procedures, and examination methods in this story are drawn from online sources and public documents, and are fictionalized for the novel. They do not represent actual professional practice. Do not imitate them or apply them to real life.
Theme: None at present.
