I'm a Suspect?!

(The entire novel is complete and updated daily. Paragraph comments are open, so you can follow along without worry!) (The next novel, 《My Wish Remains Unfulfilled, So I Regressed》, is now available to add to your list. Below is the blurb for this novel, 《I've Become a Suspect?! [Mystery]》.) Yu Jie thinks she ought to go pray for good luck. She's just a low-key little palace maid in the weaving bureau, suppressing her true nature every day. She's handled more fabric than she's eaten salt, and she has no idea how she managed to offend someone powerful, but somehow she's been named a suspect in the Imperial Study arson case?! There's no way around it. If she wants to stay alive, she'll just have to grit her teeth and do her best. As it turns out, she performs so well that the Empress takes a liking to her and orders her to sit for the civil service examination in a few months. She has to pass and become a female official. ...Once she has to study, everything becomes interesting. A theft at a mountain temple, a corruption case involving the sons of noble families, a playwright found dead, a case of corporate espionage: the threads all intertwine, and the deeper she investigates, the more she uncovers. By the time she realizes it, she has become one of Her Highness's favorites. Her Highness: “I happen to have a son around your age. He's handsome, has a lovely personality, and he likes you too. I'll decide your marriage for you.” Yu Jie: “?? But I already like someone!!!” If she solves one more high-profile case that draws the attention of the whole country and earns a great merit, will she be able to get out of this betrothal? Song Ju was orphaned at a young age and raised by his adoptive father, who found him and took him in. Having witnessed countless farewells and the many sides of human nature, he always adheres to the etiquette of “seeing through things without saying so,” wearing a smile that is warm on the surface but cold underneath. The arson case was simply an assignment from his superior, but he hadn't expected the suspect to be a girl who was exactly as she seemed. She has terrible judgment, she's a coward, and you can win her over with a single pastry... Can such an innocent girl really solve a case? He couldn't help worrying about her. Even his superior gave him a suggestive look, then casually assigned him to make sure she studied hard and took the civil service examination once the arson case was over. He worried about her so much that, in the middle of an investigation, she fell right into his arms. Sighing, he reached out to help her up... Wait, what was this soft thing that smelled so sweet? Why was his face getting hot?! Wait... Why was she being betrothed to someone else? Song Ju: “Aren't I the male lead?!” [Steady, reliable, caring, and devoted male lead x slightly tsundere, quick-witted, rabbit-like heroine who's afraid of the dark and ghosts] Theme: No one should be falsely accused without any evidence