Your Highness, Solving the Case Comes First

Everyone knows that Li Lingshu, the Second Princess of Linyuan City, is a “good-for-nothing.” She dotes on her male companions and behaves shamelessly. From the court to the streets, people curse her everywhere. After the First Princess goes missing, Li Lingshu becomes the sole heir to the city lord’s position. The imperial clan submits a joint memorial: “She has neither virtue nor conduct and is unfit to inherit the throne.” To silence the public outcry, Li Lingshu volunteers to go to Qingxi County in the Southern Prefecture, a place riddled with old cases and seething with hidden currents. She wants to prove herself. Her very first case involves a headless corpse and someone walking through the night fog… Standing before the body is Jiang Heng, magistrate of Qingxi County, a humble seventh-rank official with nothing to his name. Like a pine growing from the mud, he is stern and upright, cold and distant, and not one to indulge anyone. Her sense of smell is uncanny, allowing her to uncover the truth through scent. He is unyielding as iron, never backing down before the powerful. Together, they dig up decades’ worth of corruption in the Southern Prefecture. The case of the headless corpse walking at night, the pear garden’s puppet show after dark, the skinning flower thief, the fake auspicious omen… Every case is bloody, every mystery chilling. Only later does he discover the lonely, proud spirit hidden beneath her spoiled façade. Only later does she discover the burning heart beneath his cool gaze. P.S. Strange mysteries, crime-solving, mutual secret crushes