[Inspired by Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty + strong heroine + metaphysics + high intelligence + love that grows over time + martial-world mystery-solving]
Song Zhao is an orphan, adopted by her master, who taught her metaphysics and the skills of the martial world.
At sixteen, just after she has taken care of her master’s funeral, she suddenly receives a mysterious letter telling her that the father she has never met is actually the emperor!
Having grown up roaming the martial world, Song Zhao wants nothing more than to avoid being kept in the palace. She has no choice but to obey her imperial father and investigate unsolved cases across the provinces.
The emperor certainly has good taste in assistants. The man he assigns to her is not only as handsome as Pan An and highly skilled in martial arts, but also helps her clean the house and is a wonderful cook.
He is a little stubborn, but that’s fine. A little training should make him useful.
Then, before she knows it, she falls for him too.
As a nobleman from an aristocratic family, Yin Shijun has never met anyone so shameless.
They have only met twice, and she has already brought a strange man home and made him sleep on the floor. The nerve!
And this person is actually a princess? What an absurd joke.
Years later
Song Zhao: Ping'an, I can’t manage without you.
Yin Shijun (embarrassed): You’re a young lady. Can’t you be a little more reserved?
Song Zhao (plaintively): There’s no one to clean my house, no one to cook me delicious meals, no one to play music for me...
Yin Shijun (dropping the clothes in his hands): ...What am I to you?!
1. A fictional dynasty with institutions modeled on the Tang Dynasty.
2. One-on-one romance: a messy, laid-back heroine with sky-high intelligence versus a wolfish, domestically skilled hero with unmatched martial prowess.
3. An ensemble cast with multiple couples, but the story mainly focuses on the leads.
I actually came across a good-looking novel that is still being serialized. The author is very impressed. Chapter 19 is about Magistrate He shooting archery, but you wrote Magistrate Song.