Female forensic examiner Li Xinglu transmigrates into a suspenseful historical romance novel, becoming a scapegoat supporting character who is eliminated from the start.
Accused of murder and unwilling to die young a second time, Li Xinglu decisively chooses to side with the original story’s great villain, Investigating Censor Shen Zhouyun. “Please give this servant a chance, My Lord. Let me examine the young lady’s body and determine her cause of death.”
With her expert hands at autopsies, she earns Shen Zhouyun’s favor and, with his help, clears her name. But before she can catch her breath, she becomes a suspect in another murder case.
Determined to prove her innocence and escape the plot’s deadly twists, Li Xinglu finds herself held back by her lowly registered status. Shen Zhouyun offers her a lifeline, and she agrees to become an assistant coroner helping him solve cases in exchange for a way out.
The cases that follow grow more dangerous with each one. Li Xinglu seems to have a scapegoat buff, getting framed every time. But Shen Zhouyun always trusts her without hesitation. To return the favor, she does her job diligently, helping him navigate the various factions, watching as he escapes his dark fate and rises steadily through the ranks.
She thinks they’ve become kindred spirits with the same goals.
Li Xinglu: Let’s get promoted and earn more money together!
Shen Zhouyun: We should be together.
Li Xinglu: ???
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Shen Zhouyun is the youngest investigating censor, but his cold and unyielding ways have made him countless enemies.
Though he holds a high position and has the looks of an immortal, no noble young lady dares get involved with him, and he himself keeps his distance from women.
That is, until he meets Li Xinglu, a seemingly meek young maid with hidden sharp edges. She is always framed by others, but she never gives in.
When someone poisons him, she climbs a treacherous mountain to find an antidote despite her frail body. When someone slanders him, she strikes back to sabotage them, even knowing how influential they are, all to preserve his good name.
Shen Zhouyun: She’s so in love with me!
Li Xinglu: ???
Also known as The Life of Li Xinglu, the Framed Scapegoat and The Investigating Censor’s Journey to Winning Himself Over
Reading Guide:
1. Scapegoat coroner heroine x delusional investigating censor, 1v1, both are each other’s first and only.
2. A suspenseful mystery centered on solving cases, with mutual crushes between the leads.
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The Villainess’s Guide to Getting Promoted (Mystery)
Trainee forensic examiner Zhao Wangshu transmigrates into the final book of the suspenseful historical romance series Tales of Love and Mystery, becoming the story’s malicious supporting villainess who causes trouble at every turn.
In pursuit of the emperor, the male lead, and the position of empress, the original Zhao Wangshu relentlessly smeared the female lead and her family, unaware that she had long been a pawn in the hands of the villain Feng Xuanhui. After being used by him and nearly getting the male and female leads killed, she ultimately ends up with her family ruined and her own body left unburied.
The good news: she was born into the book, so she won’t have to face the story’s hopeless situation from the start. The bad news: when she turns eighteen, the plot still unfolds right on schedule.
She follows her timid father, composed mother, and powerful adoptive grandfather to the capital, arriving just in time for the young emperor’s first selection of consorts. Naturally, she is among the candidates.
At a banquet supposedly held to admire lanterns but actually intended to select consorts, the emperor’s aunt is murdered. All the clues left at the scene point to the original female lead. Zhao Wangshu is supposed to use them to attack the female lead and her family, indirectly helping Feng Xuanhui eliminate his rivals. Instead, she gathers evidence, reconstructs the truth, and solves the murder herself.
Given the choice between bringing disaster upon everyone and offending Feng Xuanhui, she decisively chooses the latter.
The two officially become enemies. In every case that follows, whenever Feng Xuanhui plots a scheme, Zhao Wangshu is sure to foil it and ruin his plans. He has her demoted and sent away, so she stabs him.
She thinks she and Feng Xuanhui have become bitter enemies.
Zhao Wangshu: I’ll never forgive him.
Feng Xuanhui: I could worship heaven and earth with her.
Zhao Wangshu: ???
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Feng Xuanhui is the regent empress dowager’s nephew, the first person from the imperial in-laws’ family to be made a prince.
He always wears a gentle smile, even when killing or scheming against people. Compared with his radiant, moonlike imperial cousin, the emperor, he is reviled by officials and commoners alike as a treacherous villain.
Some hate him and secretly conspire against him; others fear him, lowering themselves to flatter and curry favor. Without exception, they are all afraid of him.
Until he meets Zhao Wangshu, a woman who knows how ruthless he is yet still dares to oppose him under pressure.
He sets a trap in a murder case, and she mercilessly destroys his plan. He uses underhanded tactics to harm her, and she stabs him.
He should hate and seek revenge on Zhao Wangshu. But he really is as crazy as she says. More than anything, he wants to have her and make her his.
Zhao Wangshu slaps him, and he takes the opportunity to kiss her palm. Zhao Wangshu deceives him with an act, and he knows full well but willingly goes along with it. Zhao Wangshu wants to rise in rank and make a fortune, so he would rather give up his own obsession than not accompany her on her rise to success.
Feng Xuanhui: A forcibly picked melon is sweet.
Zhao Wangshu: ???
Reading Guide:
1. Cunning, tenacious woman who transmigrates into a book x smiling villain with a hidden blade, 1v1, both are each other’s first and only.
2. The story takes place in the original book’s timeline from The Framed Villainess’s Guide to Self-Rescue, its companion novel. You can read this one without having read the other.
3. Suspenseful mystery and political intrigue, with the leads alternating between fighting and falling in love.
Theme: Even when gales rise, never give up on life.
First of all, the heroine only works in the pharmacy, and secondly, after time travel, she serves as a maid to serve the cannon fodder lady. No one is curious about where the heroine learned the skills of dissection. In addition, women in ancient times were very chaste. How could they take off their clothes and dissect without covering up in public?
Hahahahahahaha I feel like this case could be turned into a script.
The eldest lady is indeed a good person, even if she has selfish motives. Although she was cowardly, she was kind by leaving evidence and letters.
Conan's buff...
This book has been finished for a long time. I don't know if the author can still read my comments. In fact, I really hope that the author can read it because I am really sad and heartbroken now. First of all, what impressed me most is definitely the female characters in it. Whether they are righteous or vicious, each one surprised me. The author said it after the last chapter. I won't go into details. There is no love-related plot of being trapped by love. They are all based on their own interests, calm, rational and ruthless. The author's logic is also very well organized. One link after another, from the author's perspective, the readers are taken to clear away the fog and find the truth. Each case will have multiple twists and turns. I have to say that this writing method will make the readers feel very exciting.
This article is so good, why no one commented
Ah, it's over like this. I feel like it's still unfinished. I can continue to write another hundred and eighty chapters. I wish Mr. Li a smooth future, everything has just begun.
There are really many good female characters in this article, but in this world, all we can say is that beauties are miserable.
It would be a pity not to write a script to kill this
There are a lot of messy messages, which may or may not be foreshadowing. But I think the author's pacing is really good. Stay up late to finish reading