The Beauty Asks About Bones

Feel free to check out my upcoming works, A Darling Turned Trouble and Springtime Darling, in my profile. Thank you. After the Yin family was executed, Yin Shu escaped the estate and was lucky enough to survive. Penniless, she fled to Liaodong and became a coroner’s assistant to make a living. If it paid, she’d do any dirty, exhausting work. Now, a triple murder rocks the city. Her skill at examining corpses brings the truth to light. Even the stern judge from the capital takes notice of her. “Come with me. Help me investigate the case.” Yin Shu takes one look at this devilish man and shakes her head. “This common woman is clumsy. I only know a little about examining corpses, and I have elders at home to care for. I really can’t...” Wei Xiang: “Two strings of cash for every corpse you examine.” “My lord, when are we leaving?” One pays for a service, and the other does the work for money. They have no further ties. Once Yin Shu has saved enough, she plans to leave. The man pretends to be nonchalant. “Suit yourself.” She returns to the capital and brings an old case back to light, only to be arrested and imprisoned as the daughter of a convicted official. When she sees him again, he is now a feared Imperial Guard, ruthless and all-powerful. She gives him a faint smile. “My lord, it’s been a long time.” He scoffs. “You really have no heart.” She thinks she’s doomed to die. But she isn’t tortured, nor does she die in prison. Instead, the man who was once impartial grabs her by the wrist. As she stares in shock, he parts his lips and says: “I’m getting you out.” After that, he stays by her side. “A Shu, just do what you need to do. I’ll be right behind you.” The lighthearted version: When Wei Xiang first meets Yin Shu, he dismisses her. “A female coroner? What can a delicate girl possibly do?” She’s nothing but a pretty ornament. Later, he sees with his own eyes as the supposedly delicate woman sleeps in a mass grave in the middle of the night, carries a corpse down the mountain alone, and steams and dissects bodies with ease. Wei Xiang: “...” Turns out he was the delicate one. (Because of work, I can only update on weekends. If I don’t have to work overtime, I’ll add extra chapters. I hope you understand. Thank you. This story will not be abandoned.) Notes: - Set in a fictionalized Ming dynasty. - The author is not a forensic medicine professional, so there may be gaps in the research. Please forgive any errors in the descriptions. - This book references The Washing Away of Wrongs and the History of Ming. Coming soon: Raising a Darling Can Be Trouble [The Liang Grand Princess, who thinks about killing the male lead every day, x the Qiguo hostage prince, who thinks about how not to die every day] Everyone lamented that Liang had fallen. Jianye had lost Xie Yanyi, the brilliant hostage prince of Qiguo, who ultimately died in a rebellion. And Li Jinan, the peerlessly talented Grand Princess, had gone mad, wandering the streets in a daze all day. Then fate changed overnight. Reborn at the time of their first meeting, Li Jinan doesn’t even look at the lantern someone gives her before tossing it aside in disgust and stomping it to pieces. At their second meeting, Li Jinan looks down at the hostage prince Xie Yanyi, forced to his knees, and gives a cold laugh. In her previous life, this man deliberately got close to her. She trusted him and depended on him, only to end up with her country destroyed and her family dead. This time, she’ll cut off the threat at its roots and leave no danger behind. The kneeling man slowly raises his eyes, an imperceptible glint of sharpness flashing in them. In his previous life, this woman had bewitched him and unsettled his heart. After years of keeping a low profile, he had ultimately ruined everything because of one moment of weakness. Damn it, he’d even let this woman stab him herself. She was more ruthless than he was, stabbing him right in the heart. This time, he won’t let that happen again. A menace like her must be eliminated. The entire capital knows the Grand Princess always glares at the Qiguo hostage prince, while he treats her with equal indifference and never lowers his head. No one knows when it happened, but one day someone passing the palace gates happened to see Li Jinan crouched in a corner, crying until her eyes were red. Someone knelt beside her, held her in his arms, and softly coaxed her. “I know I was wrong.” Passerby: “!” Why does that person look a little like the hostage prince... But no one will ever know. After the passerby leaves, someone slowly pulls the knife hidden in Li Jinan’s hand away and looks at her with an amused smile. “Grand Princess, done acting? Or do you want to kill me again?” Li Jinan wipes her tears and puts on an innocent expression. “No. You sounded so sincere just now, I wanted to see if you meant it.” He laughs, then lets go of her without another word and reaches to undo his robe. Li Jinan: “!” “What are you doing?” He smiles. “You wanted to cut out my heart, didn’t you? Go ahead.” (A story about two people who love and fight each other, until in the end they want to bare their hearts to each other.) Theme: Saving each other, growing together in love, and learning to understand and respect one another.