Shen Zhiwei is the eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke’s mansion and Beijing’s most famous “sickly girl.”
Bedridden for most of the year, she never attends flower-viewing banquets or poetry gatherings. Even when her half-sister steals her fiancé, she is too “ill” to fight back.
Everyone says she is near death, a useless girl who brings shame to her status as the legitimate daughter.
Only she knows that this “illness” is her shield, the key to her survival.
In her previous life, she was the heir to a family of imperial physicians. But a secret family recipe led to her clan’s extermination. Reborn as the legitimate daughter of the Duke’s mansion, she wants only to feign illness and keep a low profile while secretly building her strength, finding the true culprit, and avenging her entire family.
Her peerless medical skills are her greatest trump card, but also a deadly curse.
She only wanted to quietly be a “salted fish,” but trouble keeps coming: a spiteful stepmother’s torment, her white-lotus half-sister’s schemes, harassment from her scumbag ex-fiancé, and the Duke’s mansion itself, which looks splendid but is rife with danger...
Worse still, Xiao Zhi, the sickly prince infamous for his ruthlessness, has somehow set his sights on her.
The man grips her wrist, his gaze sharp as a blade. “Miss Shen’s illness seems most suspicious to me. How about... I examine you personally?”
Like hell you will!
All she wants is to keep “being ill” in peace while she gets revenge!
But when an epidemic rages, her loved ones are poisoned, and the whirlpool of court intrigue draws her in, the golden needles concealed in her sleeve flash with a cold gleam.
It seems she can’t keep pretending to be “ill” any longer.
Watch as this “sickly” legitimate daughter sets the world right with silver needles and stirs up a storm, while taking the chance to slap down everyone who looked down on her!
