The County Magistrate’s Little Dumpling Is a Detective

The day Chu Niannian arrived in this world, she was in the arms of her father, County Magistrate Chu Wenxuan, as he fretted over the body of someone who had supposedly died in an “accident.”

The original owner of her body was a frail three-year-old girl, doted on by her parents. She had stopped breathing the day before after being frightened. But Chu Niannian was a modern forensic prodigy who had solved a series of murders at just twenty-two.

Clutching her father’s collar with tiny hands, Chu Niannian pointed at the body and said in a babyish voice, “Daddy, that uncle’s shoes are on the wrong feet.”

Chu Wenxuan froze. “Little children shouldn’t make things up.”

The next moment, the coroner cried out, “My lord! There are ligature marks on the victim’s ankles. This was no accident!”

From then on, the people of Qingxi County realized something was unusual about the magistrate’s little girl.

When the Zhang family’s chicken went missing, she sniffed around the coop and pointed at the neighbor’s dog. “Woof-woof took it! There’s dog hair in the nest~”

When the Li family’s daughter-in-law was falsely accused of poisoning someone, she clutched her bottle and poked the brown sugar jar on the table. “The sweet stuff has bitter powder inside~”

Even when the prefect couldn’t solve an old case, she blinked her big eyes and tugged her father toward the back hill. “Daddy, the grass grows differently where they buried someone~”

Amazed and delighted by his daughter’s uncanny knack for “stumbling onto the truth,” Chu Wenxuan simply carried her into court and made her his “lucky star.”

But when a major case involving powerful people comes to light and the mastermind sets their sights on the little girl, Chu Niannian wraps her arms around her father’s neck and puts on a serious face. “Don’t be scared, Daddy. Niannian will catch the bad guys!”

The mysterious big shot secretly protecting her, a certain young lord, watches the fierce little bundle with affection in his eyes. “Need a hand? You can pick whichever of my guards you like!”