In her previous life, Yun Zhaoyue, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis’s household, trusted her half-sister’s deadly scheme and gave her heart to her hypocritical fiancé. It left her with her maternal clan destroyed and a tragic death by poison. As she lay dying, she looked at Xiao Hengjing, the Regent who coldly surveyed all under heaven from the Golden Throne Hall, and realized she had long been swept into the whirlpool of court intrigue. Her blood was the key to unlocking a ten-year-old mystery.
Reborn, she takes up silver needles to defy fate and carries a pouch of poison to shatter conspiracies. The distinction between legitimate and illegitimate heirs? She’ll make the Marquis’s legitimate line shine again. An arranged marriage between great clans? She tears up the marriage contract in public and drives a hairpin into the villain’s throat! When she stirs up a storm in the black market under the name “Ghost Doctor,” the man who holds power over all under heaven suddenly storms into her world. His eyes red-rimmed, he pins her against a vermilion-lacquered pillar: “Miss Yun, your mastery of poison is unparalleled. Can you cure the love poison in my heart?”
He is the “Living King of Hell,” feared by all, yet he tends the fire beneath her medicine pot late into the night. She is a peerless poison doctor who can turn the world upside down, yet loses her composure when he coughs up blood. When the bronze doors of the Marquis’s secret chamber open and a bloody edict appears on the imperial desk, the two join forces to expose a treasonous plot spanning three dynasties. Amid flashing blades and shadows, they come to understand: even when she fell in her previous life, he had already been waiting for her at the Bridge of Helplessness for ten whole years.
“In this life, you’ll be the phoenix wielding the blade, and I’ll be the shield that guards your flight.” Xiao Hengjing takes her bloodstained hand, his gaze passing over the matching butterfly-shaped birthmarks on their wrists. “When peace has returned to the realm, I’ll proclaim to all the world that the Regent’s poison-tongued consort has never been an appendage, but a partner who rules the land at my side.”
