The Coroner's Wife: Case Files

Also known as Taking Off the Pearl Hairpin. A cool-headed female coroner and a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless prince. The mystery-solving takes center stage, while the romance is a slow burn that grows over time.

At eight years old, Lin Youqing witnessed the massacre of her family. Her loved ones were slaughtered, and the entire Qinghe Lin clan was wiped out overnight. Clutching the knife left behind by the Knife Peddler, she hid in Lin County for ten years, enduring humiliation and biding her time, all for the day she could repay blood with blood. Then Wei Yanchen, who appeared warm and mild but was unfathomably deep, came to her with a case involving a nursery rhyme. She knew the chance to go to the capital, overturn the verdict, and investigate the truth behind her family's slaughter had finally arrived.

By day, she worked as a coroner and solved bizarre cases. In secret, she gathered clues about old enemies. Blood-soaked nursery rhymes, a tangled mystery surrounding grain transport, a ghost bride... each unsolved case was closely linked to the massacre of the Lin family ten years ago. Her benefactor's mask was torn away, her enemy's identity turned out to be something else, and the old blood feud became entangled with layers of family ties. When the truth revealed its most merciless side, should she take up her knife for revenge, or let go of the past?

A paper boat carries wronged souls; a vermilion hairpin offers up the past. Lin Youqing removes the pearl hairpin her mother gave her and casts aside the life of a sheltered young lady. With a knife for her brush and corpses for her scroll, she refuses to be a caged bird. She seeks only to bring justice to the Lin family.

Wei Yanchen: "Every miscarriage of justice will one day be righted. I'll walk this road with you to the very end."