The Junior Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review's Daily Life

[The novel After Carelessly Taking and Then Abandoning the Coolheaded Chief Councillor is currently serializing] Sweet romance and everyday life | Food and mystery-solving Shen Fenghe was born in the countryside, but the family of an assistant director of the Imperial Library found her and brought her home. She was then sent to marry Lu Jin, a Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, in place of someone else. Lu Jin was a gentleman of exquisite grace, renowned throughout Chang’an and top of the jinshi examination in the fourth year of Xianheng. Yet on their wedding night, he left after saying he was busy with a case and never returned to their room. The next day, a new little cook with extraordinary skills appeared in the kitchens of the Court of Judicial Review. The dishes in those kitchens had always been more of a headache than the cases. But ever since the little cook arrived, the steamed cured meats were glossy and succulent, and the fish slices cooked with fermented rice wine were tender and fragrant. When mealtime came, the aroma of oil wafted through the air. An old clerk mixed rice with pork braised in fermented bean curd and ate four bowls before everyone stopped him. “You can’t eat any more!” A certain secretary finished a salt-baked chicken leg, then wrote ten pages of praise in a frenzy. “This is food fit for the God of Literature to dip his brush in ink!” Shen Fenghe was thriving here, saving money and playing with the cats and dogs. It was just her husband in name only who was very strange. By day, he was the gentle, refined Vice Minister, helping the little cook up after she tripped. “Careful, Madam Shen.” At night, though, he was a demon king, gripping her chin as he interrogated her. “Who sent you to the Court of Judicial Review? Speak!” Shen Fenghe clutched her ladle and nearly cried. What kind of bizarre case-solving technique was this? - Lu Jin had a secret: another person lived inside him. Their personalities were worlds apart, and they took turns in control, switching at sunrise and dusk. He knew that the new little cook at the Court of Judicial Review was his wife. She was bright and clear-eyed, clever and charming. He was smitten with her. The trouble was… Today, a colleague asked him how old the little cook was. Tomorrow, a scholar in the lane blushed as he gave her a flower hairpin. And she smiled sweetly at him: “My lord, when are we getting divorced?” Hah. She was his lawfully wedded wife. The Vice Minister, who was sour with jealousy day in and day out, spent a sleepless night. After making peace with the other personality, they agreed on a common goal: First fend off outside threats, then fight among themselves. The outwardly gentle, inwardly dark one vs. the bright and pampered one vs. the outwardly dark, inwardly sweet one 1. Set in the Tang dynasty during the reign of the two empresses. The story takes plenty of creative liberties. 2. The heroine was transmigrated into a baby; the hero has a split personality. Both are virgins. A sweet romance about falling in love after marriage, with plenty of food and everyday life. 3. The cases and romance both take up a substantial share of the story. Ensemble cast. Written August 10, 2025. Screenshot saved. Song Zhumian transmigrated into the body of an orphan and was lucky enough to be adopted and dearly loved by a kind herb gatherer. Fortunately, she still remembered her old skills. With silver needles in one hand and effective remedies in the other, she treated all kinds of difficult illnesses and injuries. Within a few years, word of the little miracle healer had spread far and wide. * Chief Councillor Li Heng held immense power at court. He was the late emperor’s youngest son and the current emperor’s half-brother. To avoid attracting attention, he had claimed since childhood to be frail and sickly, suffering from a hidden ailment. Now that his elder brother had ascended the throne, the emperor remembered their deep sibling bond and was overcome with grief. He had heard of a little miracle healer among the common people, renowned for her skill and especially good at treating… hidden ailments? The emperor waved his hand grandly. “Invite her discreetly. Make sure she cures my brother!” To avoid drawing attention, the Chief Councillor had no choice but to move into a detached residence next door to the little miracle healer’s home. * This patient’s problem was a bit unusual, but he paid very generously. A physician’s work involves looking, touching, and asking questions. She looked him over and found his complexion acceptable; she touched him and found his posture acceptable; and the acupuncture… was acceptable too. Song Zhumian treated him diligently, soothing him carefully, and the consultation fees grew more generous each time. But still… His illness was nearly cured, so why did he keep coming back every day? And why was his gaze getting stranger and stranger…? One wild night, she knocked the Chief Councillor out with a bowl of sweet soup, grabbed a mountain of gold and silver, and vanished without a trace. * When Li Heng woke, he saw the bite marks and red traces all over his body, and the empty residence next door. He crushed the jade cup in his hand. He had thought he was merely playing along with his elder brother and humoring a country doctor. He didn’t know when it had begun, but he had become addicted to watching her frown as she took his pulse, and to the touch of her fingertips against him. Lustful dreams filled his nights, and passion filled their bedchamber. Now she had run away? Fine. Very fine. She was going to touch someone else now. Theme: You need a full stomach to have the strength to thrive