Su Qingyan, an emergency medicine student and food blogger, transmigrates after a laboratory accident into the body of a concubine-born daughter of the prime minister. Framed by her legitimate elder sister, she has been left for dead and dumped. Just then, Prince Regent Xiao Jue is struck by a deadly poison and his old illness flares up. The imperial physicians are helpless, so she is dragged into his manor as a “medicinal catalyst.”
At the critical moment, Su Qingyan combines modern first aid with ancient acupuncture techniques to save Xiao Jue’s life by a hair. Staying at the manor to treat him and protect herself, she sees that he is frail, always cold, and has no appetite. She starts serving him comforting homemade dishes like millet and Chinese yam porridge and medicinal chicken stew, winning him over one meal at a time.
As political attacks and palace conspiracies come one after another, the two go from wary doctor and patient to allies who face every crisis side by side. Xiao Jue falls for her lively wit, while Su Qingyan glimpses the tenderness beneath his cold exterior. In the end, she uses medicine as her blade, food as their bridge, and devotion as her shield to write a sweet romance about “saving the ruler’s life with healing hands, and making a home together in the warmth of everyday life.”
