The Duke's Abandoned Child Is Spoiled by the City's Most Powerful

A pampered heroine, a full cast of regretful family members seeking redemption, fluffy animals who can read minds, a golden finger, a touch of detective work, and a heroine who grows over time. There’s a little angst at first, followed by warmth, healing, and satisfying triumphs.

At six, Sheng Linyue was finally brought back to the Duke’s estate. Everyone said her mother had seduced her way into having her, and that she was the bastard child of a lowborn woman, the stain that should never have existed in the Duke’s household.

She loved them all so carefully, but when Sister Baozhu fell into the water, everyone said Sheng Linyue had pushed her.

On a snowy day, she was made to kneel outside the Duke’s estate. Just as she was losing consciousness, Gu Yungui, a junior official at the Court of Judicial Review, found her and took her home.

Later, people discovered that this abandoned daughter of the Duke’s household could actually understand fluffy animals.

She used the cats, dogs, and birds around the city as her eyes and ears, helping Gu Yungui solve long-unsolved cases at the Court of Judicial Review.

A one-legged black cat identified the culprit behind a string of murders.

A mouse in a cave told her where the late emperor’s long-lost keepsake was hidden.

Her little peacock found a miraculous medicine for a prince so frail he couldn’t get out of bed.

When a ferocious tiger presented as tribute from a foreign kingdom went wild before the throne, she walked over and gently coaxed, “Good kitty, tiger,” and the beast lay down obediently.

All beasts bowed before her, and countless people turned to look. Even the capital’s most powerful figures were fighting to take her home.

“Yueyue, you were the one I found. You’ll be my little sister for the rest of your life.”

“Little Yue, you saved my life. You have to be my daughter.”

“With me here, no one in this world can hurt Yue’er.”

At last, the people of the Duke’s household panicked and knelt before her, begging her to come home. But she only smiled and said, “I already have a home.”