A Death-Row Cell from the Start: I Win Over the Imperial Uncle with My Medical Skills

Ye Zhen transmigrates into a political scheming novel as a disposable physician who is poisoned to death from the start, with the poisoned wine already at her lips.

She pulls out a homemade stethoscope and presses it to the prince's chest. “Your Highness, you’re ill.”

“I’m the only one in the world who can cure this. Spare my life, and I’ll offer you the empire as my betrothal gift. How does that sound?”

She only meant to bluff the cold-faced imperial uncle into sparing her. But then he slowly takes off his bloodstained gloves.

“How convenient. I was just looking for a new physician. Miss Ye, how do you plan to treat this ailment of my heart?”

Her throat burns as if cheap liquor has scorched her esophagus, leaving behind a sickening sensation. But what truly makes Ye Zhen's scalp tingle is the faintest hint of bitter almonds mixed into the drink.

Cyanide!

The thought pierces her muddled consciousness like an icicle, and she jolts her eyes open. She sees dim, damp stone walls, beads of water dripping from above, and air heavy with the mingled stench of mold and blood. Cold shackles bind her wrists, scraping the skin raw and leaving them stinging.

Fragments of memory surge into her mind: Ye Zhen, a modern surgeon, collapsed in the break room after three surgeries in a row. When she woke again, she had become a young physician with the same name in a court-intrigue novel, doomed to be a disposable character from the start.

The original Ye Zhen had been caught up in a vast conspiracy, cast out by the mastermind to take the blame, and sentenced to die by poison. The sentence was to be carried out immediately.

Before her, an expressionless eunuch with a pale, hairless face grips her chin. Another holds a lacquered tray bearing a wine cup that is half empty, its bitter-almond scent promising death.

She has already been forced to swallow a mouthful of poison!

Only after she is personally “invited” to the prince's residence does she discover that his heart ailment is... not quite what she imagined.