The Three-Year-Old Beloved Little Detective

The Three-Year-Old Detective Everyone Dotes On:

Su Jiyao is the little daughter of Su Zhan, a junior official at the Court of Judicial Review. She's three years old, chubby and round, and everyone loves her.

Her father dotes on her, her mother spoils her, and her big brother adores her. She lives a carefree life.

Until one day, a tabby cat called the System appears before her.

The System says she lives inside a book, where she's a minor sacrificial character, and that it came early to take her away.

Su Jiyao tilts her little head, her eyes full of confusion. "Kitty, what's a sacrificial character? Is it tasty?"

Tabby cat: "...What?"

One day, Su Zhan returns from work looking troubled.

He says there's a series of disappearances that has gone unsolved for a long time. The people are terrified, and public resentment is boiling over.

The emperor is furious and issues an ultimatum to Su Zhan, the official in charge of the case: if he doesn't solve it within three days, he'll be stripped of his post and exiled.

The whole family sighs in despair, at a loss for what to do.

Su Jiyao says in her childish voice, "Papa, the bad guy is the heir of Marquis Jingyang. All the missing people are in the cellar at his country estate outside the city..."

After that, Su Jiyao helps her father solve several strange and major cases. She cracks all kinds of difficult mysteries, is personally named the Court of Judicial Review's Little Deputy Minister by the emperor, becomes everyone's darling at the court, and grows into a little detective famous throughout the land...

* Doted-on child, adorable kid, mind-reading, gossip, case-solving

* One-on-one / sweet romance / childhood sweethearts / happy ending

(Screenshot saved on March 15, 2025)

Theme: Love is mutual.