The Powerful Minister’s Female Coroner

Everyone in the Great Yong court knows that Xiao Yan, the powerful Prince of Zhenbei, commands half the empire’s armies and is unfathomably shrewd. A cold-faced official feared by the emperor and avoided by every courtier.

No one knows that Su Wei, his fiancée hidden away in the depths of his residence, is a one-of-a-kind female coroner.

The Su family was framed and wiped out. She alone survived by chance, assumed a false identity, and mastered her family’s ancestral art of examining corpses. With her delicate hands, she can detect poison hidden in bones; with a single glance, she can see through false evidence. Among cold corpses and scattered bones, she pursues the truth behind her family’s massacre.

Strange cases in the palace, secret killings among the great clans, and nameless corpses on the frontier erupt one after another. The crimes entangle every faction at court, leaving the officials helpless. Su Wei tears away layer upon layer of deception with her forensic skills, yet with every step she is drawn deeper into the whirlpool of imperial power struggles.

When Xiao Yan first meets her, he takes her for an extraordinary woman unafraid of corpses. Only after spending time with her does he learn that she carries a sea of blood-deep hatred in her heart and an unyielding spirit in her eyes.

The world mocks female coroners as lowly, and the powerful regard her as a pawn to be used. Only Xiao Yan gives her a place where she can stand secure.

He wields his authority to keep her safe, while she uses the evidence in the bones to help him see through the mists at court.

Steel flashes, bones are stained, and schemes coil around them. One commands the truth of the criminal courts; the other holds the power of the realm.

She speaks for the wronged through the dead, and he uses his power to protect what is right. Together, they overturn the fabricated cases and restore justice to the world.