The Brocade Healer

On the Double Ninth Festival, the emperor hosted a banquet in Zhengyang Hall, inviting his veteran ministers to drink together. Unexpectedly, three guests suddenly went mad during the feast, shrieking before dying on the spot. Rumors spread throughout Jinling that Empress Wan had returned to claim their lives. Sent by a noble patron to Jinling to save someone, Mu Lingxi unexpectedly discovered that the long-vanished poison of the Western Regions' Gumo had appeared in the city. One bizarre and sinister murder after another followed. They involved not only the medical schools of the martial world, but also seemed to have intricate ties to the court's struggle over the succession...