Su Qingyuan, a 21st-century medical PhD student, never imagined she would fall into the remote mountains of the Great Xia kingdom amid an explosion during a gene-editing experiment.
From the start, she is a peasant girl on the brink of death, with nothing to her name but a mind full of modern medical knowledge. She sterilizes wounds with red-hot needles and makes crude hemostatic powder from wood ash, saving lives despite the doubts of those around her. But she has no idea a far greater storm is about to break: the mysterious man she hid in her cellar, covered in blood, is none other than Xiao Che, the crown prince hunted by the empress.
She is a transmigrated woman with no strength to defend herself, yet able to turn death into life with her medical skills. He is a shrewd prince, trapped in a desperate situation. Their days and nights in the cellar become a contest of suspicion and trust: she cuts away his dead flesh and cures his strange poison, while he shields her from open attacks and foils hidden plots. As the instinct to survive collides with the ambition to save the world, two souls from different worlds forge a bond that will last through life and death amid the chaos.
The empress’s assassins are always on their trail, and the court’s schemes are tangled at every turn. With a surgeon’s precision, she dismantles each crisis: using herbs to counter secret palace poisons, forensic examination to expose witchcraft conspiracies, and disease-control methods to win the borderlands’ trust. He advances with the decisive force of an emperor: building strength among the common people, using his wits to bring down the powerful clans, and ultimately reclaiming the throne amid bloodshed, aided by her medical expertise.
From entrusting each other with their lives in a cellar to standing side by side in the Golden Throne Hall, they break not only the barriers of their identities, but also the prejudices of their age. When he says, “I will rule this realm together with you,” she takes up her pen, the Great Xia Medical Canon, and writes into the history books a chapter of her own
