The Green Satchel Lantern Is Lit

[A beautiful, brilliant, tormented physician seeking revenge x a cold, abstinent commander and powerful court official] Five years ago, the Imperial Medical Academy was purged, and the entire Jiang clan was executed. Burdened with the monstrous accusation that her father had “prescribed the wrong medicine” and poisoned the Empress Dowager, Jiang Jiaojiao escaped by having her maid die in her place. She changed her name and lay low in the shadows. Five years later, she enters the palace with a golden needle, calling herself the physician Jiang Yaoguang. The Imperial Medical Academy is a den of danger, with deadly traps at every turn. Every step takes her across the bloodstained edge of a blade. He is Song Zhao, commander of the Imperial Guard, the emperor’s attack dog and a cold-faced demon. At their first meeting, he grabs her and locks her in the morgue. “Miss Jiang, are you particularly interested in the dead?” At their next meeting, he pulls her into a tight embrace amid the flames, his black armor burning hot. “Are you trying to get yourself killed?” In his eyes, she is a pawn of mysterious origins who takes risks at every turn, and also an enigma in his heart that he can’t let go of, one he is determined to unravel. - With golden needles, I’ll heal the afflicted and clear the wronged of their names. In this bloodstained palace mystery, I’ll wield the needle, you’ll wield the blade, and together we’ll solve it!