A Mistaken Marriage Match: Record of Washed Grievances

Zhuo Qing earned her spot as the youngest chief forensic investigator by trusting evidence over gut feeling, every case, no exceptions, and that habit is exactly what’s running through her head when she and her friend Gu Yun pull a strange artifact off a murder victim during a case that’s already been keeping the whole department up at night. That artifact is the last thing she touches before her modern life disappears entirely.

She wakes up centuries away from her lab, in a kingdom where power decides outcomes and courts don’t bother with proof, and she’s not herself anymore, she’s one of the Qing sisters, daughters of a family the political winds already destroyed, sent off as a bargaining piece to another kingdom with her beauty deliberately ruined so nobody looks twice at her. Her parents are already gone by the time she arrives in this body, and whatever happens to her next is entirely out of her hands, decided by people who see her as currency rather than a person.

What she carries with her is just the habit of looking at a scene and refusing to accept whatever story people want her to believe, and that instinct is what she leans on when suspicious deaths and buried conspiracies start surfacing in a court built on threats instead of law. She’s working from memory and medical knowledge alone, piecing together truths in a system that was never designed to let anyone find them, and somehow that’s still enough to make powerful people nervous.

Solving the mysteries around her turns out to be the easier half of the problem, because doing anything about her own fate in a world where being right has never once meant being safe is a fight she can’t out-deduce her way through.