Modern autopsy researcher Gu Changfeng wakes up trapped inside the Great Qian Dynasty as an impoverished, ridiculed scholar surviving on copper coins. His mundane routine shatters when the prime minister’s heir turns up dead inside a barred chamber, leaving innocent servants facing swift execution under corrupt imperial decrees.
Employing modern pathology, wound analysis, and chemical tests, Gu dismantles fabricated evidence to track the real killer directly into the crown prince's inner circle. As court factions threaten his life to bury the truth, Gu wagers his head on cold scientific facts to defy royal tyranny.
