She Solves Crimes by Reading the Air

[Traditional, logic-driven mysteries, with solving cases as the focus and romance as a secondary element]

Guan Yueling: Brother Rujin, are you in love with me?

Wen Wuxu: ..., no!

Guan Si Niang glared at Wen Si Lang. She watched a faint wisp of black mist slowly rise from his previously calm, steady aura.

Hmph, nice try. You think you can lie to me? Did you forget I can read the air?

Guan Yueling asked on purpose, "Really?"

Wen Wuxu blushed and turned his head away.

Right, he'd almost forgotten that Si Niang could detect lies!

Wen Wuxu gave an embarrassed cough. "Si Niang, let's solve the case together instead!"

Guan Yueling replied with a grin, "Sure!"

And the best case I ever solved was finding out that you were in love with me!

Content warnings:

1v1, both leads are virgins; alternate setting with original worldbuilding.

## Special Note ##: The female lead is a native of this world, and her ability to tell truth from lies comes from another source.

Case 1: The heir to the Prince of Wei's estate and his entire family are massacred while staying at Pilu Temple. Liu Erlang, the son of a minister who lodged there as well, vanishes without a trace. Just when everyone thinks Liu Erlang is the prime suspect, his body is discovered. Was it suicide or murder?

Case 2: Three years ago, the murderer behind the murder of the third young lady in the Grand Commandant Wu's residence could not be found. Two years later, the third young lady's close friend is unexpectedly arrested and confesses to the crime. A year later, another close friend steps forward to testify that the killer had no opportunity to commit the crime. When the case is reopened, they discover a mystery hidden within the mystery.

Case 3: The Suwen Medical Clinic, hounded by baseless rumors, is burned down, and Physician Liu's grandson is accidentally burned to death. But an autopsy reveals that he was actually poisoned. Who administered the poison?

Case 4: A scene of a crime committed by Xuanye suddenly turns up at Langgan Academy. A portrait reveals that the victim looks exactly like the woman found dead in the river. Two victims who look alike, killed at the same time in different places. Coincidence, or deliberate?

Case 5: Duan Dalang is suddenly brutally murdered by the family of a victim seeking revenge, and accused of belonging to a gang of kidnappers. Duan Erlang is devastated, but there is more to the story than meets the eye.

Case 6: ...

Updates daily. If you enjoy mystery and detective stories, please add this to your reading list!

I recommend my completed historical mystery, A Worthy Wife Is Hard to Find!

Please add my upcoming novel, The Fake Heiress Won't Put Up With It After Being Exiled, to your reading list!

Gu Ran failed her tribulation. When she woke up, she found she had transmigrated into the body of a fake heiress from a marquis's household.

After the real heiress returned, the original owner refused to become a farmer's daughter and used the marquis's wife's kindness to stay in the household.

She remained arrogant and domineering, throwing tantrums and making trouble, until she was used as a pawn and married to a concubine-born son of the Chancellor.

Two years later, Chancellor Qin was implicated in a major court case, and the entire household was convicted and exiled to the southern frontier.

On the way, the original owner succumbed to a serious illness and died full of resentment. That was when Gu Ran arrived.

When she survived, the women of the Qin household all looked at her with disdain. Knowing the original owner had been hated and despised, Gu Ran braced her frail body and, once they reached the place of exile, asked her husband for a divorce.

Gu Ran paid no mind to everyone watching coldly and mocking her, expecting her to bring about her own downfall.

As a former supreme rogue cultivator, what was the big deal about the little matter of staying alive?

She'd get healthy, earn enough money, build a big house, and live a comfortable, leisurely life.

Only then did everyone in the Qin household realize their mistake. Even her former husband wanted to rekindle their relationship.

Gu Ran: As if! I'm rich and free. Why would I go back to an old flame when there are so many other people?

Her dear younger sister Pei Xilan, whom she met on the way to exile, nodded sweetly in agreement. "Exactly!"

That night, the disgraced official's daughter Pei Xilan lay on the bed, baring her flat chest and beckoning to Gu Ran with a finger.

"Ran Ran, if you want a husband, how about me?"

Gu Ran: ⊙0⊙

They'd been traveling together for three years, and she hadn't known Xilan was a man!

My next novel will be The Striving Days of Miss Han. Please add it to your reading list!

Han Mufei was betrayed and killed in the apocalypse, then transmigrated into the body of a young woman from the Han clan.

She treasured the hard-won peace and stability, and only wanted to enjoy a life of luxury and leisure.

As for the original owner's despair over her cousin stealing her perfect marriage match, which drove her to throw herself into a river, that had nothing to do with her.

Marriage would only get in the way of her lie-flat life. Wasn't it great to be a single noblewoman?

What men? What fated matches? Whoever wants them can have them. She doesn't care!

Unfortunately, the court was in chaos and war broke out. The Han clan fell apart.

Han Mufei and her family were forced to leave their home and wander as refugees before finally settling in the mountains.

She had originally planned to save a little money, build a small house, and then go back to lying flat!

But then she started building towers and walls, reclaiming land for farming, raising livestock, fishing, and all kinds of other ventures!

Before she knew it, life was getting better and better, and the village had grown into the territory of a powerful lord!

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After the war, He Youlang met the down-on-her-luck third young lady of the Han family. He thought she was just another pretty face with nothing to offer.

But that didn't stop him from helping her move bricks, chop trees, build a house, butcher meat, cook meals, and store up food. He practically just stopped short of banging his head against a wall.

He Youlang was secretly full of himself, practically shouting with pride: Without me, how would she survive?

Later, he watched her build tall towers, host banquets for the whole town, and turn a deserted village into a prosperous city.

He Youlang clutched his thumping heart and wailed: Without her, how would I survive?

Theme: Solve cases, help people, and act with integrity.