The First Wife's Guide to Medicine: Raising Kids the Tough Way in the Fourth Prince's Household

Jing Xian, a top modern pharmacologist, transmigrates overnight to the forty-third year of the Kangxi reign, becoming the principal wife of the Fourth Prince, Yinzhen. From the start, it’s hell mode: her predecessor is coughing up blood and near death, her eldest legitimate son Honghui has already died, Side Consort Li is arrogant and domineering, and Fourth Prince Yinzhen is cold and suspicious. Jing Xian calmly pulls out her silver hairpin. “Don’t panic. If the King of Hell dares take someone, I dare snatch them back!” She saves her beloved son with her own “immune-to-all-poisons” blood, then uses her hardcore pharmacology knowledge to crush the schemes in the inner household. Other women rely on cunning in the palace. She relies on chemical equations. When Side Consort Li flaunts her gorgeous nail polish, Jing Xian sees right through it. “Cinnabar contains mercury. Be careful, or your voice will drop and turn into a duck’s quack.” When her sisters-in-law show off their exorbitantly expensive pearl powder, she calls it out in public. “Talc blocks your pores. Say goodbye to your complexion.” When the young concubines frantically serve deer-blood and ginseng soup to win favor, she puts up a sign: “I’m feeling overheated today. If anyone brings tonic soup that makes His Highness get a nosebleed, they’ll be responsible for hand-washing the bloody clothes!” And so, the Fourth Prince’s residence takes a completely different turn. While other households are rife with bloody intrigue, this one becomes a “health and wellness lecture hall.” The once-cold workaholic Fourth Prince is “scared into good health” by his wife’s treatments, turning into the capital’s number-one “health nut.” Their daily life goes like this: “Your Highness, my brow has been itching today. Could I have been poisoned?” “Honghui, hurry and get the silver hairpin! This bowl of pork knuckle looks suspicious!” See how this pharmacology-savvy principal wife, along with Honghui, her “poison-detecting radar,” takes on her hypocritical sisters-in-law, sets her foolish concubines straight, and manages to live a “long life and many blessings” kind of life in this chaotic age of succession struggles!