[Late Victorian Era / Sherlock Holmes-inspired setting]
Christine Allen is the stepdaughter of Robert Allen, a financial tycoon in Westminster. Cool-headed and exceptionally intelligent, she spends all day engrossed in law and criminal investigations. People are always mocking her for not being a proper lady.
Baron Edward Morton is renowned far and wide for his astonishing good looks. During his university days, so many people came to propose that they wore a path to his door.
But with his lofty ambitions for reform, he considers only Miss Allen special...
Until one day, when he arrogantly decides to defend Miss Allen by driving off a baronet who has been taunting her.
Miss Allen: Why did you chase off my research subject?
Morton: ...?
Miss Allen: Do you know that observing people with such typical class-based ideologies is one of my few pleasures in life?
Morton: Are you Hobhouse?
Allen: Actually, I admire Shaw more, and I plan to join the Fabian Society this year. Considering your annual net income and the time cost of the connections I established with that baronet, you can start by paying 500 pounds to my residence as compensation. I'll refund the difference once I provide a detailed assessment.
Morton: ...Huh?
From then on, Baron Morton begins his life as a stand-in. She investigates cases, while he appears in court as a lawyer.
Only then does he realize that Miss Allen can wield a sword, climb trees to pick fruit, kick down doors, and intercept and kill people. There's nothing she can't do...
And while Baron Morton has to act as the well-behaved lady's shield, he finds himself enjoying it more and more.
[Please note]
1. The male lead is weaker, the female lead is stronger; older woman-younger man romance.
2. The female lead is a scheming, sharp-tongued bisexual. The male lead can't decide between his rational mind and his lovestruck mind.
3. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
Theme: Rationalism
