Reborn, the Frail Black Lotus Goes on a Killing Spree

[Both leads are devoted to each other + arranged marriage to love + physician consort + political intrigue]

When Gu Yunchu returns to the family home, she becomes the laughingstock of the entire capital.

Her birth parents think her uncouth and dote exclusively on her green tea cousin. Her legitimate younger sister and brothers see her as a stain on the family and make life difficult for her at every turn. Everyone says the legitimate eldest daughter of the Earl of Zhongyong's household is a sickly weakling who might topple in a breeze, fit only to waste away in a side courtyard.

But she refuses to play the tragic heroine.

Her cousin steals her courtyard? The next day, she has a "sudden illness" and coughs up blood nonstop.

Her stepmother cuts her monthly allowance? Before long, the household accounts are short, and a scandal erupts in the imperial court.

Her father tries to force her to become a concubine? A white silk rope hangs at the mansion gate, shocking the whole city: "This earl's household devours people!"

Then, one night, she picks up a "mad dog."

The Prince of Qin, Pei Zheng, whose power dominates the court, slips into her boudoir while badly wounded, a knife at her throat. "Speak, and you die."

She rolls a silver needle between her fingers and smiles sweetly. "Your Highness, I'm the only one in the world who can cure the poison in your body. How about a deal? I'll treat you, and you... kill people for me."

From then on, the capital is turned upside down.

The sickly legitimate daughter becomes a poison consort who commands life and death, while the mad prince whom everyone fears willingly bows his head, becoming the sharpest blade in her hand.

She smiles. "Your Highness, this is just a transaction."

But he offers her an empire as his bride price and clings to her with desperate passion. "A transaction? Too late. From the day you saved me, you became the only medicine I need, until death do us part."