Past and present lives + rebirth + pocket dimension + peerless skill in both medicine and poison
In the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, Su Qingli has her heart gouged out and bones stripped away. She watches her fiancé and cousin divide up everything she owns, while her entire family is wiped out. As the flames consume her, she swears through her tears of blood: If I get another life, I'll make those two wretched lovers pay in blood!
When she opens her eyes, she has been reborn at sixteen. Her spiritual meridians remain intact, and her family is still alive. In this life, she grips her ancestral jade pendant and awakens a mysterious pocket dimension. With one hand, she can bring the dead back to life through medicine; with the other, she can poison the souls of scoundrels.
Those who bully her will be crippled! Those who humiliate her will be killed! Those who harm her family will be ground to dust!
From a good-for-nothing outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect to a peerless master of medicine and poison who astonishes the world, she advances carefully at every step, tramples the scoundrels and harlots, protects her family, and helps her sect flourish, becoming someone everyone looks up to.
But along the way, she keeps running into a mysterious man.
His power is unfathomable, and he is widely known in the mortal realm as the “Mystic Venerable,” yet he always appears quietly whenever she is in danger. When they first meet, his eyes flicker. “Miss, have we met before?”
Su Qingli feels the same familiarity, but can't remember a thing.
Until one day in a secret realm, he is gravely wounded protecting her. His dark robes are stained with blood, and when her fingertips brush the scar over his heart, a blurred fragment of memory flashes through her mind: by the River of Forgetfulness, he took a fatal blow for her in that very spot.
“Ling Xuanye,” she asks softly, “have we... known each other for a long time?”
The man lowers his head, his eyes filled with a depth she can't understand. “Perhaps ever since the moment you came into existence.”
