A laboratory explosion sends modern medical student Lin Xiaoman transmigrating to the Tang dynasty, where she becomes the eldest daughter of the Lin family medicine shop, caught in a scandal over a “quack doctor causing a death.” When a child is poisoned by cinnabar used as medicine, she draws on her modern medical knowledge to save the day, stunning everyone with her silver-needle poison test. Pei Yan, dressed in a dark brocade robe, arrives with a jade pendant and a promise, inviting her to face the scrutiny of the Imperial Medical Office.
In an age when medical knowledge is worlds apart from the modern era, Lin Xiaoman uses her remarkable skills to break through traditional constraints time and again, but this also draws her into one conspiracy after another. Silver needles pierce the fog, and a detoxification prescription conceals a hidden mystery. From a crisis at the medicine shop to undercurrents in the palace, she moves carefully at every turn. Amid her breathtaking adventures in medicine, she and Pei Yan support each other. The jade pendant brings them together, and their feelings quietly blossom as they face danger side by side. See how a modern healer's heart shines in the Tang dynasty and writes a romantic tale across time.