On a stormy night, Su Banxia, the ruthless woman who ran a pharmaceutical group, plunged off a cliff with her car. When she opened her eyes again, she had been reborn at eighteen. Her grandmother was still alive, and the old medicine cabinet that concealed the family's secrets was crashing down amid the thunder.
Among the splintered wood, she dug out the Guangxu-era Secret Manual of Nine-Steaming and Nine-Sunning Polygonatum. Tucked into its title page was a fragment of her great-grandfather's hand-drawn map of the Millennium Ginseng King. Blood-red words on the final page burned into her eyes: "Whoever opens this cabinet in a later generation must bear the calamity of the medicine guardian!"
In her previous life, she had sold the family's ancestral prescriptions to capitalists, watched her grandmother die with regrets, and ultimately died in a car crash deemed an "accident." In this life, she gripped the secret manual tightly. A Polygonatum rootlet pierced her fingertip, and she forged a blood pact with a thousand-year-old medicinal spirit.
The snake-shaped mark of Ruikang Group haunted her without end. Reports of genetically modified toxins from the laboratory flooded the world, and the wave of skepticism in her livestream nearly drowned her. But this time, she was no longer a pawn at others' mercy.
Polygonatum dew, steamed and sun-dried nine times, could bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones. The medicinal spirit manifesting before the livestream cameras stunned the entire internet, while the amber divine salve seeping from the old stove became a prize capitalists fought over.
When she used ancient techniques to break into a trillion-yuan market, and her Polygonatum seedlings reached the frenzy of Wall Street, she received a WeChat message from a "descendant of the Medicine King": "The third-generation medicine guardian has been born."
It turned out that from the moment she was reborn, what she had been protecting was never just a prescription, but a medicinal spirit pact spanning a thousand years, and the life and death of the entire pharmaceutical world.
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