[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner":3,"chapter-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-61":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Nation's Forensic Medical Examiner",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326756,4551,"Chapter 61: Good News","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>Afternoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pothos in the office looked wilted; its leaves lay limp on the water, with only the trailing stems curling upward, like a soft body lifting its buttocks—rather alluring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the corner of the windowsill, a feather duster stood slanted, its feathers bright and each strand stiffly upright, as if radiating some authoritative power, brimming with pride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun took a call, then called out to Jiang Yuan: “The person scheduled for the injury assessment has arrived. Let’s go together.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright.” Jiang Yuan promptly replied, grabbing his cap and standing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun watched Jiang Yuan neatly put on his police cap, gave a slight nod—his apprentice was good: not only technically skilled but also easygoing, rule-abiding, and pleasant to work with; he had every intention of mentoring Jiang Yuan more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Injury assessment was the most routine task for forensic medical officers, especially in smaller counties, where homicides and unnatural deaths were rare, but injuries were common.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, with increased public awareness, people now knew that if injured, they could lie on the ground and choose a vehicle; even if too severely hurt to use their phone, they could have someone else pick the hospital. The old-school types who used to casually wipe blood and keep drinking skewers had long vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, injury assessments could be done either in the county or at the city’s judicial appraisal center, spreading out the workload and reducing pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan had just joined and immediately encountered his Seventeenth Uncle’s corpse; later, he demonstrated exceptional skill in fingerprint analysis, so he’d had little opportunity to practice injury assessments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to forensic pathology involving corpse autopsies, forensic clinical work was relatively less complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If exams sometimes caused confusion due to the broad scope of forensic clinical knowledge, once on the job, nothing was an issue—whenever he forgot something, he could just turn to a textbook or search online. Those coming for injury assessments rarely had the ability to follow up and question the forensic officer’s methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you encounter any problems, tell me privately—don’t bring them up in front of the injured person or their family. Especially regarding injury severity ratings: don’t voice your opinion,” Wu Jun advised as they walked, adding: “The focus of injury assessment is the person—it’s easy for disputes to arise.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood, Master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun nodded and continued teaching: “Minor injuries carry no criminal liability, so the accompanying civil compensation is not on the same scale as minor injuries. Grade Two Minor Injury and Grade One Minor Injury are essentially similar, but in sentencing, Grade Two might lead to a one-and-a-half-year sentence, while Grade One could mean three years. So both plaintiff and defendant closely watch this report—that’s the most critical point to be careful about.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it.” Jiang Yuan nodded again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun smiled and led Jiang Yuan down to the injury assessment room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The injury assessment room of the Criminal Science and Technology Team was located in the annex building, only half the size of a classroom, divided into two rooms, each with its own door sign: the inner room was the examination room, the outer room the reception room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The examination room contained only a bed, a chair, and a movable large screen. The reception room had standard office desks, chairs, a computer, and a printer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overall design of the injury assessment room was primarily blue and white; if one had to describe it, it resembled a health room from a Japanese film—_-||.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Jun sat down in the reception room, turned on the computer, and instructed Jiang Yuan to fetch several forms for the injured person and their family to fill out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a while, once all required signatures were completed, Wu Jun led them into the examination room and had the injured person lie on the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The injured person was a man in his thirties, possibly forties; being alive, his age was harder to judge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared blankly at the door; only when he saw Wu Jun and Jiang Yuan did he lift his eyelids slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sit down,” Wu Jun said calmly, his expression similar to when performing autopsies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out gloves and silently put them on, then asked: “Where were you injured?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“His head nearly got split open,” the injured man’s mother, building up emotion, lamented: “My son’s a programmer. I told him to quit his job and come home to help build our hometown. Who knew he’d get into a traffic accident and then get beaten up…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where exactly on the head?” Wu Jun cut to the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right here on the head—look, it’s been stitched up. When first injured, the skin and flesh were all torn open, bloody and messy…” The mother stepped forward, removed her son’s hat, revealing a stitched scar above the forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A two-centimeter by three-centimeter area—about six square centimeters. Location-wise…” Wu Jun studied the man’s hairline and fell into thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan quickly understood why Wu Jun was hesitating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In forensic clinical assessment, the head and face are not treated as one area—they are separated. A facial wound of 4.5 square centimeters qualifies as Grade Two Minor Injury; a head wound requires 8 square centimeters to reach that standard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for distinguishing head from face, it’s simple for most people: anything within the hairline counts as head; anything outside is face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, here was a programmer with a receding hairline, sustaining a 6-square-centimeter wound just above the brow ridge—was this Grade Two Minor Injury or just a minor injury?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Wu Jun pulled out a ruler again and began measuring the distance from the man’s brow line to his nasal base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan silently nodded—yes, at this point, they had to treat him as bald.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a bald person, the hairline position is determined by the distance from nasal base to brow line—if that distance is eight centimeters, the hairline sits eight centimeters above the brow line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan watched as the wound was clearly placed within the facial assessment zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grade Two Minor Injury confirmed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Yuan’s lips twitched involuntarily; from his imprecise observation, this programmer’s forehead was noticeably narrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the standard of facial aesthetics is three equal sections: the upper third (hairline to brow), middle third (brow to nasal base), and lower third (nasal base to chin)—most people’s proportions vary slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This programmer’s upper third was clearly shorter than his middle third.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because his hairline had receded, this injury assessment had somehow worked out in his favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the victim had been the same face shape but with thick hair and no receding hairline, the wound would have been classified as head injury—only qualifying as a minor injury.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Misfortune may be a blessing in disguise!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For him, this was probably good news.\u003C\u002Fp>",1124,"2026-06-20T18:55:00.150Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","043f01d7b7a2cf2928974629305d155d037a427aae26b3b1599e6983d16b6e8a","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-62","the-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-chapter-60",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-nation-s-forensic-medical-examiner-cover.jpg"]