The Poisonous Physician Consort: The Cold Empress’s Double Life

Su Wanyue is the youngest empress in the Dongli Kingdom, but she is also the "Poison-Using Saintly Physician" feared throughout the martial world. She saves lives with silver needles and strikes at the heart with poison. Gentle and virtuous on the surface, she is in truth always plotting several steps ahead. Shen Yanxiao, the powerful regent, is secretly the "Blood Fiend Young Master," a master of poison arts. The two cross paths amid a maelstrom of political schemes. Bound by poison and drawn together by medicine, they are nonetheless divided by their opposing positions, teetering again and again on the precipice between love and hate. As border wars and palace intrigues pile up, Su Wanyue uses poisoned blood as her bait, while Shen Yanxiao protects her with his life. Their showdown as poison-wielding physicians uncovers a shocking secret about their birth. They are mortal enemies and soulmates, writing a legend of "pledging themselves with poison and giving their lives to one another" as they struggle between political ambition and true affection.