[Double-standard, cool-headed, sharp-tongued, loyal heroine x hard-mouthed, soft-hearted, devoted hero who pursues his wife]
As a child, Zhao Meng'e witnessed her mother's murder, but the authorities couldn't catch the culprit, and the case files from that year were lost. In the depths of her grief, she awakened a System called Crime Master.
The System told her that if she solved 500 cases, she could restore the files on her mother's tragic death.
Zhao Meng'e did as it said, but people in the capital secretly mocked her as a madwoman. What young lady from a good family would go out all the time, even hang around the yamen, and spend every day dealing with corpses?
She was branded an ill omen and rejected on the spot by a prince.
Then a minister was murdered.
The case began with the death of a minister of revenue, but soon uncovered the truth behind the empress's rise to power decades earlier, as well as the truth about Zhao Meng'e's mother's death.
Zhao Meng'e secretly worked for the empress, rising steadily through the ranks and stepping into the turbulent whirlpool of factional strife at court.
At first, Ji Ruyue wasn't interested in the young lady of the Zhao family, having heard all the gossip about her. That changed when his imperial mother arranged a marriage for him in front of everyone, ordering him to wed a woman he'd never met.
Unwilling to become a political sacrifice, he put the wastrel persona he'd spent decades cultivating to use at last. He declared that he would never marry a madwoman.
Her reputation was none of his business.
But then he was framed and accused of murdering a court official, and forced to share a carriage with that young lady from the Zhao family.
Ji Ruyue, feeling guilty, tried to make nice. "Have you eaten?"
Zhao Meng'e: "You're annoying."
He kept trying to win her over, but she rejected every overture. She even used a bronze token from the empress to order him to inspect a suspect's chamber pot!
Later, Ji Ruyue clung to Zhao Meng'e like a shadow, and gradually discovered that she had a hidden past.
Zhao Meng'e looked at the man clinging tightly to her and expressionlessly pushed his face away, but he caught her hand and said, "Let me hold you for a little while. Just for a bit. I wish you could spend more time with me."
What a joke. After recovering her memories and learning the truth of how she had transmigrated, staying here at all was already the first compromise she'd made.
Love made up only five percent of her life. Apart from the time she spent with Ji Ruyue, she still had to attend court and help manage people's livelihoods.
In the end, Zhao Meng'e still stayed with Ji Ruyue until he fell asleep.
P.S. After the female lead transmigrates to ancient times, she loses her memory and mistakenly believes she is a native. Her memories only begin to return as she grows up.
Theme: Uncover the truth.
