The Tyrant and the Palace Maid Save Each Other

In this new novel, Shen Weilan, a medical girl from Jiangnan, enters the palace as a servant by taking the place of a fellow villager who died of illness, all to uncover the truth about her family. Within the Forbidden City's red walls, she witnesses the bloody execution of a palace maid beaten to death for spilling a teacup, and quickly learns how to survive. At the Laundry Bureau, she forms a bond of life and death with the frank and forthright Chuntao. By chance, she discovers a fragment in the abandoned medical text Essentials from the Golden Cabinet, containing a record of a secret palace medicine. The clues point straight to the fire at Kunning Palace twenty years ago.

An assassination attempt in the imperial garden becomes the turning point in her fate. When Shen Weilan stumbles into Emperor Xiao Jin's arms, she is shocked to see that the cinnabar mole behind his ear is an exact match for the embroidered image on the handkerchief left by her mother. During their confrontation in the imperial prison, she uses the old Kunning Palace incident to pressure him and discovers that Xiao Jin is in fact the deposed crown prince who survived the fire all those years ago. As the secret formula in Essentials from the Golden Cabinet is gradually restored, the two begin to glimpse each other's wounds through their mutual probing: one carries the blood debt of a murdered mother, while the other bears the injustice suffered by her family.

As buried truths unfold, the cruel mask of the tyrant gives way to the anguish of a lone courtier and a sinful son, while beneath the palace maid's timid exterior lies the steadfast compassion of a healer. Amid the whirlpool of palace intrigue, they are both each other's blades and each other's only salvation. The book is now available. Please visit Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!