Kokyu No Kakushigoto Uso Tsuki Kotei to Ezuke Sareta Miya Onna No Nazo Hodoki Ryori Jo (Alpha Police Bunko) [Light Novel]

[Machine Translation] Sang-ling, a low-ranking courtesan, is always hungry because she is forced to do her work and has no food to eat. One day, she is asked by an unidentified chef, Ryu, to gather information on the Princess Hyosui in exchange for secretly feeding her. She wonders why a chef would want to know so much about the princess, but as she interacts with Hoisui, she finds herself caught up in a mysterious and cruel conspiracy that is going on behind the scenes of the glamorous imperial palace.

仕事を押しつけられて食事にありつけず、いつもお腹をすかせている後宮の下級女官・笙鈴。ある日、彼女は正体不明の料理人・竜から、こっそり食事を食べさせてやる代わりに皇女・氷水の情報収集をしてほしいと頼まれる。なぜ一料理人が皇女のことを知りたがるのだろう―そう疑問に感じつつも調査を進めていく笙鈴だったが、氷水と交流を重ねるうちに、華やかな後宮の裏でうごめく妖しくも残酷な陰謀に巻き込まれていくのだった。