The Phoenix Hides Beyond the Pass

◈ She wields medicine as her shield and cunning as her blade

When Yun Zhuohua crawled out of the corpse pile in the Palace of Eternal Longevity, all she had left were three golden needles and half a volume of poison lore.

After curing a devastating epidemic on the frontier, she became the medical maid of Xiao Ji, a battle-hardened general

She saves him by using golden needles to seal his acupoints and draw out the deadly poison in his heart meridian;

She fights the enemy by using the Hundred Herbs Poison Manual to burn the rebel army's provisions.

Then, on the night of the blood moon, her heterochromatic eyes awaken, and she sees a future in which both their lives hang by a thread…

◈ He makes his armor a cage and his prayer beads a curse

Xiao Ji's left hand turns prayer beads to deliver the dead, while his right wields a war blade to carve out a path to survival.

Beneath his black iron mask is half a face scarred by burning oil, and the filthiest secret of the dynasty.

When he discovers the little medical maid carries a rubbing of the previous dynasty's imperial jade seal, and she uses poisonous schemes to help him slaughter the rebels in their camp

Suspicion and testing give way to a passionate embrace on a snowy night, but he doesn't know that she turned white-haired in three days to cure the Gu poison afflicting his entire army!