The usual plot of a girl leaving home while refusing to marry a man she doesn't love is made slightly more interesting by the fact that she decides to write novels about crime and joins the county magistrate office of Tang Tian Yuan to gain information. Her enthusiastically juvenile antics are viewed with tolerance and amusement by her co-workers and her ability to get herself kidnapped or in some other kind of trouble leads to the discovery of crime-solving clues for the ML. The ML is handsome, smart and kind, so I wasn't sure what he so in this gal and frankly, her quirky cuteness grew grating after the first half.

The secondary couple can best be described as an honorable, handsome but somewhat stupid man falls for an evil girl who is only redeemed at the very end of our story. I didn't enjoy their romance because it involved a lack of trust and honesty on her part for the vast majority of the tale.

I felt really sorry for the jilted fiancee of the FL. His feelings were genuine and he was a kind and good guy who wound up with a broken heart. I really wish they would have finished the series with a love interest for him.

Overall, didn't enjoy this one very much. I stuck it out thinking it was bound to get better but alas, that was not the case.