The Forensic Pathologist Who Retrieves Bodies

Forensic pathologist Qin Zhao uses fragments of the “Corpse Retrieval Rhapsody” left by his father, Qin Tieshan, and the “Soul-Summoning Tune” to question the dead. The price is that dark patches spread across his right arm as his memories are stripped away layer by layer. He discovers that the nameless woman’s corpse pulled from the moat has a patch of missing skin on the sole of her foot and green moss beneath her fingernails. Six pages have also been removed from the crime-scene investigation records for the disappearance of his younger sister, Qin Xiaozhao, three years earlier. Following one forged death record after another, he tracks down Chen Yanhuai, who handled the cases at a restoration center; Shen Guan, a mortuary cosmetologist; and a living woman named “Qin Su,” who is none other than Qin Xiaozhao, officially declared dead in the household registry. To save his sister, Qin Zhao willingly signs an eighth record declaring himself dead, entering his own true name into the chain that has her locked away.

Recommendation: A forensic pathologist who questions the dead, at the cost of slowly forgetting who he is