Modern forensic anthropologist Yang Weimo transmigrates into the Great Li dynasty and becomes Yang Weimo, the illegitimate daughter of a merchant family.
Unlike in the novels, though she is a concubine-born daughter, Yang Weimo is loved by her parents and gets along well with her brothers.
Her only trouble is that the high fever that nearly killed her original self left the Yang family terrified. They arranged a marriage to bring her good fortune:
Her betrothed is named Gu Qu'an.
He is a scholar, brilliant and gifted, like the reincarnation of the God of Literature.
At fourteen, he passed the provincial examination and went to Yunjing to take the metropolitan exam, but never returned.
Now Yang Weimo is already seventeen, and there is still no word from Gu Qu'an.
People outside the family say Gu Qu'an climbed the social ladder after passing the exam. Rumors are flying, but despite searching everywhere, the Yang family can't find any news.
Just then, word arrives from Dayang County: while suppressing bandits, they found Gu Qu'an's remains. It turns out he was robbed and murdered on the road to the capital. The county has sent someone to identify the body.
Yang Weimo is delighted. A painless widowhood? Such a wonderful thing really exists?! She packs her bags and hurries to Dayang County to claim her brand-new status as a widow.
But fate has other plans. A heavy rain traps her in a mountain shrine, where she meets Shen Pingyuan, a promising young official serving as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
A forensic expert and an investigator join forces, a match made in heaven.
The remains of an old acquaintance draw them into a decades-old conspiracy. The bones in Yunjing, a massacre and a whole family wiped out, a boy in a ditch... They inch closer to the truth, closer to danger, and closer to each other's hearts.
There is just one thing Yang Weimo can't figure out: why does Lord Shen look so much like her useless deceased husband? Could she be about to lose her widow status?
Theme: Justice will always find its way to you
