A healer can save lives, a warrior can defend the country, and she will spend her life clearing the mists from the land and keeping a light burning forever in the human world.
At the foot of Langya Mountain, an orphan girl named Ling Wuchen was found among the corpses of a defeated army. Wearing a broken jade pendant and bearing a crescent-shaped birthmark on her arm, she grew up in a sect that valued medicine and martial arts equally. At fifteen, she entered the flames of war, healing wounds with silver needles and striking down enemies with a short blade. After three years of bloodshed, the name “Doctor General” rang throughout the borderlands.
At eighteen, during a palace banquet, the Empress Dowager burst into tears at the sight of her. Her face was exactly like that of the daughter-in-law she had lost. The broken jade pendant fit its match, and the birthmark proved her identity. At last, the War King's daughter, who had been lost among the common people, was recognized and granted the title of Commandery Princess. But behind the honors, hidden attacks soon emerged. The Court of the Imperial Clan repeatedly faced obstacles in its investigation, those who had known the truth back then were killed one after another, and rumors spread through the court that she was “passing herself off as royalty.”
Ling Wuchen watched the turmoil with cool eyes and joined forces with her senior brother to investigate the deeper conspiracy. From traces of poison left behind on the battlefield to medical records erased from the prince's manor, from threads of evidence in enemy-state letters to a loyal servant's dying words, the truth behind the bloody case from sixteen years ago gradually came to light: treason, the murder of family, and a plot to seize military power.
When a healer's compassion faces the wolves in the court, and a general's sword shines into the depths of conspiracy, she must not only clear her parents' names, but also fight to make this land a brighter place for all.
