True or Fake Heiress + Palace Intrigue and Household Battles + Mystery and Crime Solving + Folk Oddities
Yun Zhaozhao's motto in life: If you can use your fists, don't use your words. If you can use poison, don't get emotionally involved.
After all, her brain is home to a nest of bugs, and they've already eaten all her fear.
When she was four, she nearly drowned. The imperial physician said her brain was dead, so the Marquis's wife sent her to Gu King Mountain to find a way to keep her alive.
Fifteen years later, she comes down the mountain to find the Marquis's wife showering her adopted daughter, Yun Xiao, with affection and gratitude. Meanwhile, she crouches beside a corpse to study its shed parasite shells, and casually solves a murder in the palace.
Delighted, the Empress names her a Court Judicial Commissioner, the first female civil servant in the history of the Daxing Kingdom.
The Marquis's wife: Get out of the capital!
Yun Zhaozhao: All right. Just let me finish investigating this case first.
(Three days later)
Yun Zhaozhao: I solved three more. Madam, please wait a little longer.
She only wanted to quietly find the "Thousand-Year Gu King" and prolong her life, but the villains are trying too hard.
The thousand-year-old monster Hou Wang is racking up his KPIs all over the country: the river ghost case in Jiangnan, the mummified corpse case in Mobei, the Ten Thousand Snakes' Den in Shu...
The Empress is so anxious she could jump out of her skin, urging her to go on assignments every day.
Yun Zhaozhao looks at the mountain of case files as the Gu worms in her skull buzz hungrily.
"Hou Wang," she says gently, teasing the worms, "are you making all these cases just to help me rack up promotion points?"
Reader's Guide:
The heroine has a sharp tongue. She sounds nice, but don't let her talk again. (Sharp-tongued heroine warning)
The cases are told with humor, perfect for readers who love stories even when they're not very good at solving them.
No fixed couple, but plenty of admirers who are completely outclassed by her.
