[Rebirth and revenge x herbal medicine crime-solving x mad emperor]
As she drew her last breath for the seventh time in the Cold Palace, Mu Yunrong caught the scent of Crane Shadow Powder on the phoenix robe.
Reborn on the eve of the selection, she carried the memories of seven lifetimes and became the most dangerous poison-treating investigator in the imperial harem.
The calming incense bestowed by the Noble Consort was mixed with nux vomica?
She secretly mixed it into loquat syrup in front of everyone, making the Empress’s maid vomit blood from the poison.
The ice-skating shoes bestowed by the Empress concealed a sprig of artemisia?
She retaliated by pouring aconite wine over them, letting the entire harem witness the phoenix seal being tainted with poison.
The emperor’s contraceptive soup was laced with fragrant valerian?
She drank it with a smile, then turned around and made herself vomit, using the bloodstained dregs to carve an edict naming the next ruler.
“Your Highness, shall I examine the corpse?”
She dissected the body of a consort who had died in childbirth, retrieving medicinal jade from her swollen organs.
She set fire to the gauze curtains in the Noble Consort’s shrine and sifted the ashes for fragments of the late emperor’s seal.
She tore away the emperor’s tender, affectionate disguise and discovered the poison of Five Minerals Powder in his ravaged pulse.
Until that day, when a bloodstained dragon-and-phoenix bangle tumbled down the steps and the tyrant seized the hand she had used to examine a hundred corpses.
“Since my beloved consort can cure Crane Shadow Powder, why not guess what you’ll have to trade for the antidote to the Three-Day Bliss you’ve taken?”
[Reader’s Guide]
◆ Hard-core palace intrigue: Testing for poison with herbal medicine and uncovering clues from corpses. The cases are researched against The Washing Away of Wrongs and the Tang Code.
◆ A battle of madmen: A reborn poison consort x a sickly, possessive emperor, locked in a mutual love-hate struggle and keeping each other captive.
◆ A career-driven heroine: From discarded woman in the Cold Palace to regent empress dowager, she stirs up the palace with the Imperial Medical Academy’s silver needles.
