Poison Doctor Qing Chen

[Money-loving poison doctor who lives for making money vs. devoted, affectionate, iron-blooded general]

Song Weiran has always loved three things most: practicing medicine, using poison, and making money.

In her seventh year of seclusion in a mountain village, she saves a wounded soldier and takes the largest silver ingot from his purse as her fee.

Seven days later, the man leaves a jade pendant behind and heads for the front lines.

Only when war ravages the northern frontier and plague spreads does she go to the front lines for her own safety, where she discovers that the soldier she saved is the deputy commander of the Northern Army and heir to the Duke of Ying!

Using her dual mastery of medicine and poison to cure a deadly toxin, she becomes the army’s savior.

But as a poison master’s successor, she can never become the heir’s wife.

Once she accepts this, she leaves the man behind, pockets her fee, and rides off without a care.

Two months later, news reaches the capital: the Duke of Ying has been framed for colluding with the enemy, and his entire household has been imprisoned under false accusations, with their lives hanging by a thread.

Weiran touches her jade pendant, and the young general’s bloodshot eyes, full of pain as they parted, flash before her once more.

Perhaps... she can’t bear to see him die.

Gu Chenyi, heir to the Duke of Ying, is loyal to the throne and the country, and a valiant warrior. The only time he ever overstepped was when he left his family’s jade insignia, a token of betrothal, with the physician who saved him.

When they meet again on the battlefield, he sees her rescue the three armies from disaster, and his love for her surges, even though she is a poison master whom society will never accept.

He stakes all his military honors and titles, kneeling before his father to plead, “Father, I, your fourth son, will marry no one but her.”

He does not take a step back, even when threatened with punishment under family law and disinheritance.

Until the woman he would give everything to protect leaves without a backward glance, leaving him alone in unbearable agony, his heart torn apart.

It turns out his unwavering devotion means nothing to her beyond a transaction, money paid and goods delivered.

Later, after the Duke of Ying’s household is framed by a treacherous minister and imprisoned, he suffers torture in the imperial prison. As consciousness fades, all he can think about is...