This Lady Charges a Fee to Solve Crimes

Top criminal psychologist Ling Wei transmigrates into the past, only to become the prime suspect in an apparent suicide case?!

One moment she's profiling a psychopathic killer, and the next she's staring at a pair of trousers that may have been used for hanging in a chilly prison cell. The original owner was the unfortunate daughter of a minor official framed for a crime? No problem! Ling Wei, with her sky-high IQ and first-rate acting skills, says: Solving crimes and protecting myself are right up my alley. Modern criminal psychology, trace evidence analysis, logical deduction... bring it all on! It's just that her methods seem a little too “shocking” for the ancient world:

“Your Highness, look at the degree of dilation in the victim's pupils and the angle of the ligature marks. He was clearly hanged after he died. Suicide? His acting is worse than mine!”

“My lord, the suspect's pupils moved up and to the right while he was speaking. He's making it up. Grab him and bluff him into confessing!”

“Hey, the composition of this soil... It points to the killer's hideout, an estate belonging to a wealthy merchant in the south of the city. Hurry! And while we're there, ask if they need a consultant. I'll give them a discount!”

She only wanted to earn a little money and quietly uncover the mystery of her own identity, but each case turns out to be more bizarre and complicated than the last: a serial killer imitating an ancient legend? The mysterious disappearance of a wealthy heir from a locked room? A courtesan's murder by poison, tied to a map of the border defenses? Ling Wei's reputation, and her purse, grow in bizarre ways, catching the attention of a certain man.

Xiao Yu, the immensely powerful Prince Chen, who also oversees the Court of Judicial Review, is peerlessly handsome and almost demonic in his intelligence, yet keeps his true abilities hidden. At first, he thinks this woman's words and behavior are strange, that she's full of nonsense, and that her methods of solving cases are like some kind of spirit-summoning ritual. But later, he discovers,