\"If Mr. Cui wants to try the needle, I can change the place to insert it.\"
Pei Zhaoxue, a concubine from a family of imperial doctors, was born with a photographic memory and suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder - she had to record everything she saw, including the old injury on the wrist of the Minister of Justice who always came to search her medicine garden.
Cui Zhi, the vice minister of the Ministry of Justice known as "Living Yama", has a disabled right hand but is an expert in solving crimes. He can taste the smell of lies, but he cannot taste the female doctor who always records the dosage of medicinal materials next to the corpse.
A series of "Laughing Corpse Cases" forced the two to cooperate: the deceased all had strange smiles on their faces, and the smell of bitter almonds remained in their throats. When Pei Zhaoxue picked datura powder from the nails of the corpse, Cui Zhi found that her autopsy technique was almost dangerously accurate——
\"Doctor Pei knows how to kill people so well, has he tried it before?\"
As the investigation deepens, the truth of the "arsenic case" in Taipei Hospital twenty years ago gradually emerged. The scar on Cui Zhi's right hand and the needle marks on Pei Zhaoxue's wrist came from the same conspiracy, and the medical records that were burned that year contained secrets that could overthrow the dynasty...
Concept: When the world uses rules to create defects, love is the only suturing technique.