The Peony Curse of the Eastern Palace

Synopsis of The Peony Curse of the Eastern Palace

❤️ The Crown Prince Has Been Entangled in My Roots ❤️

(Also known as The Peony Curse of the Eastern Palace and The Court Lady of the Medicine Bureau Tears Apart the Demon Flower to Save the Eastern Palace)

[An outwardly timid but stubborn, food-loving court lady x a puppet crown prince who seems lovesick but is actually a maniac]

[Plant-communication ability + court intrigue + past and present lives + sweet and angsty romance]

Yao Changsheng is a fifth-rank court lady in the Medicine Bureau. On the surface, she is a “medical fanatic” obsessed with pharmacology, but in truth, she has the ability to understand plants.

After saving an ancient tree a thousand years old as a child, she was forced to acquire the power of “bringing dead wood back to life.”

But overusing it makes grass sprout from her head and flowers bloom at her fingertips. Once, the crown prince even caught her in the act and said, “Miss, there’s a sprig of cilantro growing on your head.”

The current crown prince, Li Chenyu, is peerlessly handsome, yet little more than a puppet. The officials privately call him a “marionette.”

Until Changsheng discovers that:

The loyal ministers who “died of illness” had all seen the crown prince shortly beforehand;

A bloodsucking peony lies buried beneath the Eastern Palace, its roots wrapped around the crown prince’s heart;

And the first thing the crown prince says when he regains his senses is, “Did you steal my osmanthus cakes from breakfast?”

Even worse, whenever the crown prince resists the demon flower’s control, chaos descends on the Eastern Palace:

He suddenly breaks into a Hu Xuan dance during court, draws flowers on his political rivals’ memorials, and even sleepwalks to the peony garden at midnight to sing love songs... (The demon flower is losing it: This Host is so hard to manage!)

Changsheng grits her teeth and clenches her fists:

“So what if I have to tear apart a demon flower? Let me finish this bag of candied fruit, then I’ll get to work!”

And so...

She secretly swaps out the consort’s bewitching sachet, sending a swarm of bees after her until she runs three miles from the palace banquet;

She teams up with the crown prince to stage a “