Beneath the Traces

Corpses speak, and physical evidence does not lie. Shen Yan, former chief forensic expert of the provincial department, was removed from the front lines and labeled with 'procedural violations' and 'paranoid personality' after reporting the dark underbelly of the system—'evidence contamination, forensic fraud, and scapegoating'—through real-name reporting. He resigned in anger and became an independent forensic expert. He possesses only a set of high-precision portable micro-evidence analysis systems—it provides data, not answers; it does not warn of danger, nor does it identify the culprit. Serial killings on rainy nights, traceless poisonings, perfect crimes in sealed rooms, underground mass graves in the city... Everyone relies on confessions, experience, connections, and violent interrogation; he relies solely on trace evidence, bloodstain patterns, toxin isotopes, tool marks, and crime scene reconstruction. When capital and power collude to fabricate truth, destroy evidence, and frame scapegoats, he uses silent chains of physical evidence to tear apart the facade of perfect crimes. 'There are no perfect crimes in this world, only evidence that has not been understood.' 'True justice is not about ghosts appearing in dreams or solving cases with a sixth sense, but about letting silent evidence speak for the dead.' Science strikes with overwhelming force, and the truth never fails to arrive. — Description from novelcodex.org