Jay

ok so it starts with this girls father rebelling or something, she begs for his life from the emporer person there. He throws her into a pit, she gets a ghost mentor and becomes strong, she also has a majic ring that makes her look like a boy or something like that. She comes back from the pitt and becomes the emporers guard. She goes on quests, falls in love with the emporer and sleep with him in her female form without telling him who she is. One of the guard quests involved her defeating some dude who had kidnapped a merperson and cursed stuff until the bad dude was like infected with pearls coming out. It is a fantasy martial arts thing. PLEASE I CANT REMEMBER ITTT. The girl has blue/green hair repending

I read this a few years ago. Looking for this story, its about a detective and an owner of a coffee/pastery shop. The cop is undercover and goes to the shop daily the owner starts saving him a piece of cake every night. It is super cute and I really need to read it so I can move on with my life now lol