The Shen Clan Woman’s Record of Self-Rescue

Shen Qingci, the legitimate daughter of the Chancellor, falls from the heights overnight. Her family is framed, her loved ones die horribly, and she is condemned to the Imperial Prison, where she endures agony that burns to the bone. In the freezing prison on a snowy night, the Crown Prince abandons her and the steward betrays her, shattering every illusion she ever had about other people. She finally understands: in this world, only she herself can be her own salvation.

She conceals her talents, relying on her exceptional memory and the rudimentary medical knowledge she learned as a child to find a way to survive. After escaping, she hides her identity among the common folk. From apprentice at a clinic to running her own practice, from having nothing to building a network of connections, every step is difficult, but she never wavers. She is drawn into the power struggles of local factions and faces the treacherous schemes of the court. With every brush with death, she sheds her weakness and hones her wit and resolve.

She is no longer a sheltered young woman who depends on others. Now she is a woman forging ahead with the “blade of salvation” in her hands. To clear her family’s name, she plans each move carefully and makes her enemies pay in blood. To fulfill her own ambitions, she devotes herself to medicine, easing the suffering of the people and finding peace within herself along the way.

From a rotting pile of straw in a frigid prison to a female physician with the power to shape events; from a vengeful woman consumed by hatred to a strong woman who has made peace with her past and taken charge of her life. Shen Qingci spends her life proving that even if fate grinds her to ashes, she can still break through the earth, bloom from the bone-deep fire, and become her own light.