Second-Rate Detective, First-Rate Embalmer

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[Happy-go-lucky, playful big sister who loves teasing kids x stray-cat younger brother, tough on the outside and fragile within, a scheming seducer]

Life rarely ends well, and evil wears a thousand different faces.

Blinded and willing to fall, good and evil wax and wane. The ending isn't always what the audience wants most.

-- Blurb --

You transmigrate into the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's household, whose mother is dead and whose father doesn't care for her. Forced to marry for good luck, you catch someone burying a body after a murder and are accused of the crime. What would you do?

Once a top funeral director in her field, now saddled with a murder charge and hunted down, Shen Yuyue has this to say: If she doesn't run, who will?

Who could have guessed that in her panicked flight, she'd wind up at the home of the man she'd been made to marry for good luck, and somehow set off on a path to solving cases?

Examine the bodies and clear her name, solve cases and catch the culprit, earn merit by cracking cases, then handle the funeral from start to finish! A shocking scandal is exposed in a case involving a newborn girl, flies and ghosts devour eyebrows to reveal a secret plot to rebel, and the cries of a Guhuo bird herald the death of a consort.

From an obscure nobody to the most sought-after funeral director, Shen Yuyue takes her pitiful little husband from the outskirts of the capital straight into the capital's aristocratic circles. What a rush!

The newly favored court official known for hunting down criminals was once a disgraced prince sent into exile. No one knows that when Feng Liuchen was nothing but a speck of dust, someone treated him with kindness.

The world feared and insulted him, but she told him his eyes held the amber glow of a setting sun and the rising tide of the sea.

She also told him that no one was born to live that way.

So whether she used him or deceived him, he didn't need to choose. He only needed to look at her, and he would never let her lose.

"When will you fall in love with me? What will it take... for you to spare me a little more of your affection?"

"At the next dawn, when you hold me."

[Reading Guide]

1. Fictional ancient setting, one-on-one romance, a sweet story of solving cases and leveling up, happy ending. Also known as A One-Stop Shop for Solving Cases and Preparing Funerals and A Clingy Boyfriend Is the Best Boyfriend (?).

2. The hero has a crush on the heroine. The heroine has a few emotional hang-ups. Once they're resolved, they fall for each other, with a focus on healing.

3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, but the heroine may have seen a pig run before.

4. Descriptions in this book draw on Forensic Medicine and The Washing Away of Wrongs, with citations. Please forgive any inaccuracies, as I'm not a professional. If you spot any bugs, feel free to correct me, dears. All reasonable criticism and corrections are welcome.

5. Updates follow the rankings. I'll try to update daily or every other day. Thank you, dears, for your love and support (prostrates dramatically!).

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Transmigrated: Poor, but Free from Period Pain

[Cool on the outside, warm on the inside, a wealthy beauty of a heroine x an uneducated, warmhearted, rough-and-ready hero]

1.

One day, Yan Rongyue transmigrated into a peasant girl who was gaunt and undernourished, with a flawed appearance, and still hadn't had her first period at eighteen.

After less than a day in the Yan household, she immediately decided to go it alone and run away.

But plans never survive contact with reality. On the night she was about to leave, the peasant girl's younger brother caught her out, forcing her to take two extra mouths to feed along with her.

Well, two extra mouths it was. Luckily, what she knew could help her make a living in ancient times, so she could afford to feed them.

After finally scraping together enough capital, Yan Rongyue had just set up a vat for traditional indigo dyeing, ready to give this era a little technological shock, when she woke up...

As a burly man, on the verge of death and lying in a filthy military tent soaked in blood.

2.

Li Shan, a lieutenant in the Northern Pacification Army, had a secret he didn't dare let his brothers know:

While recovering from his injuries after a battle, he had spent seven days experiencing life as a grown young woman with constant stomach cramps and blood running down between her legs! The girl even had two younger brothers, and the older one was the bookish type he hated most!

After those bizarre days passed, Li Shan slowly woke up, mostly recovered from his injuries. He assumed it had all been a dream.

But the very next day, the young woman from his dream stormed into the military camp, furious. Despite her petite frame, she punched him so hard he was dazed and sent him tumbling to the ground. Then she cried until he handed over the last ten taels of his military pay, the money he'd been saving to replace the camp's damaged equipment...

3.

Recently, the soldiers of the Northern Pacification Army noticed that their Lieutenant Li, who did nothing but fight, hunt chickens, drink, and eat meat, and was completely uneducated, would turn into a cultured person for a few days every month. As regularly as a woman's period.

He stopped swearing, stopped fighting, and developed a taste for heavier flavors. He even began chatting over tea with the commander-in-chief from a noble family and playing chess with the secretary, a man who had passed the imperial examinations...

The soldiers: Eek!

Meanwhile, Yan Danfeng carried a bowl of red date, goji berry, and longan soup into the room. He stared expressionlessly as the older sister he admired turned into an illiterate man picking his feet. Something inside him seemed to crumble. Give me back my sister, will you?

Li Shan (pitifully): It's not like I can control it...

I'm Not Love-Brained

[Important: The term "love-brained" in the title is meant to be in quotation marks. It refers to people supposedly "love-brained" because they've been disciplined and conditioned that way.]

Song Wanfeng grew up in a single-parent household with her mother, and was never an obedient little girl.

The boy next door excelled in both character and academics, and the neighbor's son was successful in his studies. Meanwhile, she was hot-tempered, chasing dogs and beating chickens, and drove away every lowlife who came to the door to collect debts, along with every swaggering mistress.

In the rundown apartment building where they lived, nobody said anything to her face, but they all secretly pitied her mother and warned their own children not to be like her.

But they couldn't deny that she made something of herself.

In her second year of high school, she switched from the humanities to the sciences after finding her calling, and beat the boy in second place by fifty points. She went on to top the college entrance exams.

Now she leads an all-women's team that reaches the company's top performance rankings every year. She earns enough to give herself and her mother a comfortable life.

Just then, she got bound to a gacha System called "Save the Love-Brained."

Song Wanfeng refused three times, but the System forced the deal on her anyway and told her that if she didn't complete the missions, she would fall into an endless sleep and never see her beloved mother, friends, or coworkers again. In short, she'd become a vegetable.

Song Wanfeng: I just sat bolt upright from my deathbed dream. Send me 50 yuan and I'll show you what I can do!

System (kicks her flying): Off you go!

And so the crazy office worker set out on an adventure with her gacha System.

First world: The Weaver Girl Herds the Oxen: I was born naked.

Second world: The Injustice of Dou E: A woman who knows how to fight and make use of her resources.

Third world: Lady Du Shiniang Sinks the Treasure Chest: She realizes she can only rely on herself.

Late-autumn maple leaves are at their reddest. The magnificent life Song Wanfeng lives is destined to blaze red for herself.

Theme: Amid the tides of life and death, the soul makes its way toward fire and sea.