You're the legitimate daughter of the Ye family, and you want to make your way in life by saving people with your medical skills?
Accepted. You won't just save lives, you'll silence your opponents in court with evidence.
You're an heir to Chinese medicine who has returned from studying in Britain, and you want to prove your worth in troubled times?
Accepted. You won't just prove yourself, you'll protect the people and keep them safe amid gunfire and rumors.
You're a high-ranking military officer who falls in love at first sight but keeps your feelings to yourself?
Accepted. You won't just protect her, you'll clear the way with your blade on a snowy night and light a lamp in her heart.
A counterfeit medicine case, a business association scheme, labor unrest, and a financial storm follow one after another.
Misunderstandings at a ball, an assassination in an alley, and an ambush in the snow pile up in turn.
She writes prescriptions by lamplight and saves lives; he lays plans in the shadows and eliminates the enemy. Needles and blades work in tandem, medicine and the military protect each other.
He trusts her without reservation. The only thing he isn't sure of is whether she loves him too.
She never speaks of love, only placing silver needles and pages of medical records beside him as they face the troubled times together.
At last, in the fiercest storm, he hears the feelings she has kept to herself for so long.
Some die because of medicine, while others live because of trust.
Fortunes may change, but the heart's first conviction is hard to sway.
In the final scene, they embrace beneath an umbrella. Side by side, they find a light to return to, in their homeland and in the world they call home.
