The Brocade-Clad Doctor Returns

**Synopsis of A Brocade Physician Returns** Lin Wan'er, a herb-gathering girl from Yunzhou, is forced to enter the palace selection, unaware that she has been caught up in the lingering fallout from a conspiracy case at the Imperial Medical Bureau ten years earlier. To protect her, her older brother Lin Yu gives up farming and joins the army, rising step by step amid political schemes and the fires of war. The inner palace is as deep as the sea. Wielding her medical skills like a blade, Lin Wan'er navigates the rivalries among the imperial consorts, rising from a lowly candidate to the holder of the Empress's seal. Then she discovers that her meeting with the emperor, her brother's career, and her parents' deaths were all manipulated by an invisible hand. As war on the frontier and deadly poison in the palace strike at the same time, the siblings are forced to choose between loyalty and family. Lin Wan'er uses silver needles to unravel the mystery, while Lin Yu defends the realm with an iron will. Beneath the glazed tiles of the Forbidden City, the truth about a secret medicine from the previous dynasty, a bloodstained letter of treason, and the emperor's schemes is finally revealed in a fire that consumes the palace and burns away everyone's masks...