[The cold-faced prince fakes a disability and gets exposed × the surgeon princess-consort serves up face-slapping online]
√ Substitute bride trope √ Two formidable leads uncover each other’s secrets √ Medical mystery-solving
√ The prince’s daily routine: hidden weapons in the wheelchair / showing off his abs in the hot springs / coaxing his wife by kneeling on a pineapple**
Su Yunqing, a master surgeon, is reborn as the discarded daughter of a marquis’s household and drugged before being stuffed into a bridal sedan bound for an enemy nation.
Her stepmother laughs at her for marrying a disabled prince, unaware that the silver needles in Su Yunqing’s sleeve can bring the dead back to life.
Treat the disabled prince? She performs an emergency surgery to save the imperial consort and uses a silver hairpin to test for poison and foil an assassination plot.
Deal with the scheming social climbers? She catches parasitic insects under a microscope and identifies the truth from bones on the dissection table!
But her cold-faced husband in the wheelchair grows more and more suspicious.
One night, she catches him standing on his own two legs in the study. Through the mist at the hot springs, eight-pack abs are just barely visible.
Xiao Jingheng pins her against the medicine cabinet. "My beloved consort takes my pulse every day. Why not check my heartbeat?"
Only then does the entire capital learn the truth:
The Divine Physician Princess-Consort saved a dormant dragon. The disabled prince tears away his disguise and takes charge of the realm, then wraps the phoenix seal around her bloodstained fingers.
"The throne of empress is yours alone. Only you are worthy to stand by my side."
