The Coroner's Wife: Case Files

Also known as Taking Off the Pearl Hairpin

A cool-headed female coroner and a deceptively gentle prince. The mystery-solving comes first, 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 overnight the entire Lin clan of Qinghe was wiped out.

Clutching the knife left behind by the Knife Seller, she kept herself hidden in Lin County for ten years, enduring humiliation and biding her time until she could avenge the blood debt.

Then Wei Yanchen, who seemed gentle but was in truth unfathomable, came to her with a case involving a nursery rhyme.

She knew this was finally her chance to go to the capital, reopen the case, and uncover the truth behind her family's slaughter.

As a coroner, she solves strange cases in the open while secretly gathering clues about her old enemy.

Bloody nursery rhymes, a mystery surrounding the grain transport, a ghost bride...

One unsolved case after another turns out to be closely linked to the massacre of the Lin family ten years ago.

A benefactor's mask is torn away, an enemy's identity is turned upside down, and the bloody feud of the past becomes entangled with layers of family ties.

When the truth reveals its most cruel face, should she take up her knife for revenge, or let go of the past?

A paper boat carries wronged souls; a pearl hairpin is laid as an offering to 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 a brush and corpses for pages,

she will not be a bird in a cage. She seeks only to win justice for the Lin family.

Wei Yanchen: "Every injustice in this world will eventually be cleared. I'll walk this road by your side to the very end."