Coroner's Notes

Xu San, an apprentice coroner at the county yamen, is about to lose his job to a replacement next month. In the hand of the first unidentified female corpse he examines, he finds half a piece of cloth, exactly like the fabric found at the scene of his elder brother's wrongful conviction three years ago.

Changing his report would save his livelihood, but writing the truth would offend his superior. He secretly kept the half-piece of cloth, and from then on, every case he handled pointed to the same group of people.