The Female Coroner Detective

In the fifth year of the Shengqian Dynasty, a massacre took place in Shengjing: three princes were found dead in the rear hall of Luanfeng Palace. Emperor Shengqian was enraged and ordered Lin Yuanhang, Minister of Justice, to solve the case and apprehend the “Cuckoo Killer” within half a month. But when the deadline passed, the investigation had reached a dead end. Knowing he could not escape his fate, Lin Yuanhang entrusted his infant daughter, Lin Mo, to his loyal old servant, Uncle Lin, and told him to flee with her before he was convicted.

As his life ebbed away, Uncle Lin finally brought Lin Mo to Qinzhou Prefecture and placed her in the care of the renowned physician Bai Zhiyuan. To protect her, Bai Zhiyuan gave Lin Mo a new identity as his niece and had her study medicine alongside his young son, Bai Yixuan, hoping to keep her away from the life of a forensic coroner. But fate had other plans. Bai Yixuan, three years older than Lin Mo, had loved reading detective stories since childhood and often secretly studied the methods coroners used to solve cases. Influenced by him, Lin Mo embarked on the path of a forensic coroner…