The Heart-Guarding Map of Mountains and Marshes

In a vast mountain forest shrouded in miasma, Liu Yanzhi, an orphaned hunter's daughter well versed in The Famine Relief Herbal, rescues Su Yanzhi, a wealthy young man who has lost his way. The Illustrated Guide to the Mountains and Seas in his hands is riddled with errors, while her own Mountain Remedies, with its knowledge of how to identify poisons by scent and understand the ecosystem, becomes their lifeline as they face one peril after another. From spotting the almond-scented danger of a death cap to cleverly thwarting the greedy hunts of the medicine merchant Du Heng, who seeks to capture rare beasts, Yanzhi turns a hunter's survival skills into a philosophy of maintaining ecological balance in the mountains. Rejecting stories of brute force and plunder, she joins the mountain folk, including the old hunter Shi Pan and the herb gatherer A Xing, to establish a Mountain Protection Society, turning hunting bows into tools for observation. This is a sweet romance that grows amid the fresh scent of pine needles and the calls of birds and beasts, as well as a legendary tale of protecting the mountains, written by a hunter's daughter with natural history as its theme and conservation as its guiding principle.