The Yuanhe Detective's Chronicle of Rumors

[Coming soon: "Feng Xi Shi." Updated whenever inspiration strikes: "The Heavens That Were Destroyed and I Became a Model Couple"]

[This novel goes VIP on April 8. It starts at Chapter 21, so don't buy it if you've already read it.]

[Novel blurb:]

In history, Yuan Miao was both a chancellor and the most prominent celebrity in Chang'an.

By modern standards, he was a top-tier star.

Linglan transmigrates.

She transmigrates as the maid who accompanied Lady Pei Du, wife of the Duke of Jin, and is tasked by Duke Pei with keeping an eye on his beloved Yuan Miao. She infiltrates the Yuan household as a servant.

When Linglan enters the household, Yuan Miao is still an unknown junior official. His family is destitute, and he lives in the shadow of his famous cousin.

What annoys Linglan most is that he's a detective who loves sticking his nose into other people's business.

Following this eccentric detective, Linglan is dragged into one case after another...

Yuan Miao: From the very first day Linglan entered the Yuan household, I knew she was an agent sent by Duke Pei. I chose to keep silent. When I learned she was involved with the Four Seasons Society, I kept silent. When Linglan found her parents, I fell silent. Later, she said she was going to marry. I finally spoke up, but now she was the one who fell silent.

Linglan: I watched the Tang dynasty rise and fall with cold detachment, avoiding every pivotal moment in history and planning to live out a quiet, anonymous life. Only later did I realize that I had been written into history long ago. I was destined to leave a mark.

Help! A top-tier star just confessed to me. How should I reply? Waiting for answers online.

Top-tier star detective x triple-agent

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Both leads are chaste, one-on-one romance. The leads won't make any real progress before the original wife dies, and there will be a twist to the past later on.

Yuan Miao is fictional and does not appear in historical records. See the bonus chapters for details.

Bonus chapters will be updated gradually.

The Tang dynasty's institutions are fictionalized, but the story, character relationships, and organization names are almost entirely made up. Don't look for them in the history books.

[Contest entry reason]: Yuan Miao begins as an obscure, low-ranking official from a humble family. Thanks to his keen investigative skills, he solves countless cases, large and small, and steadily rises through the ranks until he becomes a distinguished minister of his era. Linglan begins as an anonymous maid in a chancellor's household and a spy who moves between the worlds of law and crime. She uses modern knowledge to overcome every challenge, finding success in both her career and love.

[Coming soon: Feng Xi Shi]

Historically, the chancellor Xiao Yanqiao was upright and incorruptible in his early years and should have been remembered as a great statesman. Later, however, he colluded with an evil princess, and in the end he died when a palace coup failed.

People of the time all lamented: "Nine generations of high officials, brought to ruin because of love. A tragedy indeed!"

A husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly apart. And all the more so for a shameless, faithless couple joined by a fleeting affair.

The cold-hearted Princess Changhua refuses to attend his funeral, saying only that he had once deceived her.

While sorting historical documents in the library, Li Fangxi, a female college student in the Republican era, comes across this story.

She can't help thinking: What love? Wasn't he just the princess's backup option?

One day, Li Fangxi wakes up in Dayao in the third year of Yong'an, transmigrated into the past. Xiao Yanqiao is only a county commandant in Luoxi that year.

In a narrow, rain-soaked alley, Li Fangxi slips beneath his umbrella and warns him:

"Don't go to the Huri Banquet in the third year of Qingluan. And as for Princess Changhua, she will never love you."

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In the third year of Qingluan, during a fine and auspicious month, the Empress Dowager Regent holds the Huri Banquet to choose a new husband for Princess Changhua, whose husband died two months earlier.

Xiao Yanqiao attends the banquet. When he sees Princess Changhua dressed in mourning white, he can't help thinking of the little girl who, across two lifetimes, had hidden under his umbrella, soaked to the skin.

He lived his previous life in confusion. Only after being reborn did he realize that the girl who had warned him in the rain was the cold princess Li Fangxi, who had once sworn she could never love him.

Reborn once more, he no longer listens to Li Fangxi. To her astonishment, he pulls her into his arms in front of everyone.

[A chancellor determined to marry into the family x a princess determined to oppose feudalism]

*Another story updated whenever inspiration strikes: "The Heavens That Were Destroyed and I Became a Model Couple"

Theme: Carry sunshine in your heart and face challenges head-on.