Fighting Poison with Poison

[Medicinal Fragrance Tempers the Bones, a Sharp Tongue Hides a Blade]

"Did you put heartbreak herb in the osmanthus cakes I asked for?" Su Wan lowered her eyes and stirred the clay pot, the scent of medicine curling around Shen Yan's silver ring.

When a wealthy heiress is forced to swallow a ban on practicing medicine, a Michelin-starred chef tastes the bitterness of conspiracy. He has only to taste the bruises on the back of her hand to recreate last night's gunshots in a dark alley; she has only to touch the bloodstain on his collar to instantly concoct a hangover cure that fights poison with poison.

When taste-based synesthesia meets thousand-year-old remedies, a physician who has lost his sense of smell and a gourmand who has lost his sense of taste prepare a poisonous feast for a desperate counterattack at an engagement banquet.

Needles hide in qipao dresses, and dining knives are steeped in poison. Watch the deadliest couple in the world of medicinal cuisine use arsenic on the tip of their tongues to pry up the rotten foundations of a century-old dynasty.