The Heiress Detective's Casebook

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Jiang Yu transmigrated.

She died suddenly by accident and became the newborn youngest daughter of the Lin'an Marquis's household in the Great Li dynasty... Not bad, actually?

Her whole family treated her like a precious jewel, showering her with love and care. But the peaceful days didn't last long. Her father was ordered to investigate a case in Licheng during a crisis, then framed by criminals. At sixteen, Jiang Yu was also falsely accused of murder, and it looked like they would both be thrown in prison.

At this critical moment, the pampered young lady who couldn't carry a load or lift a finger stepped forward, casting off her frail appearance and demanding the chance to prove her innocence.

She said, "I want to join the Criminal Justice Bureau."

No one knew that the puzzle System bound to her had become a kaleidoscope through which she could glimpse the truth.

The time and place of death, the body, and all the other clues with no apparent connection were pieced together in her hands, forming evidence that pointed to the murderer.

If one puzzle piece wasn't enough to solve the problem, she would just add another.

Su Nianlin was the young chief of the Miao tribe.

As a child, he survived a massacre that wiped out his tribe, saved at the cost of another person's life. To avenge his people, he struck a deal with the current emperor and took a post in Licheng.

He was always distant and indifferent, the complete opposite of the easygoing city lord, so his colleagues feared him and kept their distance.

He thought he would live out his days alone. Who could have guessed that one day he would meet again the girl he had cherished since childhood?

"Senior Brother, when did you recognize me?"

Jiang Yu stood beneath a willow tree, gazing at Su Nianlin as willow catkins drifted through the air.

The man smiled faintly. "Guess."

A seemingly delicate but strong and clever young lady versus a seemingly cold but devious, affection-starved young chief of the Miao tribe

Reader's Guide

This novel is also known as Solving Cases with Puzzle Pieces.

The System provides assistance and issues tasks.

The leads met as children, so this is a reunion after a long separation. Many details are fictionalized, and discussion is welcome.

Blurb for an upcoming novel

Updates every night at ten.

Lin Shuwan, the thirty-seventh heir to Cantonese cuisine, the current leading chef at state banquets, and the powerful head of a major industry in Guangdong Province.

But when she opened and closed her eyes, she woke up again, having traveled back three thousand years and become a pampered young lady whose fiance had climbed the social ladder by pursuing a more advantageous match, and who had tried to die for love.

In the rocking carriage, a noblewoman in gorgeous clothes put an arm around her waist, her face full of concern. Her voice choked with emotion. "Wan-niang, why would you do something so foolish? Why throw your life away over that second son of the Qian family..."

As if her bad luck weren't enough, disaster struck again.

On the very day Lin Shuwan was reborn, her father, an Imperial Censor, was framed by villains and demoted to Lingnan.

At the time, Lingnan was bleak and impoverished, with starving corpses everywhere. It was known throughout the Great Qian dynasty as a land of misery.

Lin's father wore a pained expression, and the servants who had come along complained bitterly.

But when Lin Shuwan saw green lychees weighing down the branches on the mountain, she was overjoyed. Wonderful! When luck is on your side, gold falls from the sky.

To become the richest person in a different world, she would start by lifting the locals out of poverty! Who cares if the mountains are barren? A good mountain is one that helps the people survive!

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A later account recorded that in the fifty-third year of the Great Qian dynasty...

The Imperial Censor and his family were exiled to Lingnan. His daughter, Lin Shuwan, was truly a genius. In only a few months, she turned the green lychees that had troubled the people of Lingnan for centuries into silver, and replaced their mud-brick homes with houses of whitewashed brick.

She developed all kinds of novel delicacies, including candied lychees, lychee wine, lychee fruit drinks, lychee shrimp, and lychee ribs.

Her creations even reached the emperor's ears. It was said that the notoriously picky imperial consort ate three hundred lychees every day before her dance practice.

As the saying went, "Lingnan's finest lychees inspire dances across the land."

Before long, Lingnan no longer needed disaster relief grain from the imperial court. It had transformed into a prosperous region known far and wide.

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The second son of the Minister's family regretted his choice so much that he hurried from the capital and spent several days kneeling at her door, come rain or shine, begging her to change her mind.

"Wan-niang, I mistook a pearl for a fish's eye. Only after you left did I realize..."

"You can call the sun and moon to witness how much I love you. You..."

But before he could finish, a young man shoved him aside.

The young man was stunningly handsome, decked out in gold and jade, with ornaments jingling at his waist. He was none other than the pampered, arrogant heir of the Prince of Pingnan.

Yet he was wearing a wildly inappropriate laborer's uniform and squeezed in beside Lin Shuwan, trying to ingratiate himself. "Sister... I've finished moving everything. Aren't you coming home?"

And the merchant's daughter, who was busy from dawn to dusk, really did turn around and smile as she said, "All right."

A heaven-blessed woman and a member of the imperial nobility?

No, no. A gifted little moneymaker and her clingy puppy of a boy.

How could they not be a match made in heaven?

Blurb written and screenshotted on July 25, 2024

Theme: Peace throughout the land, clear skies and calm seas