Lin Wan lives by the motto: “Keep your edge hidden.”
After inheriting her grandfather’s miraculous Nine Needles of Deliverance, said to restore flesh to bone and bring the dead back to life, she locks them away beneath her bed. The century-old glory of her medical family? The duty to heal the sick and save lives? She doesn’t care. She just wants to be an ordinary office worker, saving money, renting an apartment, and avoiding trouble.
Until one night of torrential rain, when she finds a man collapsed by the roadside, barely alive.
Until documents framing her come crashing down at work, and her boyfriend of many years sneers at her while holding a rich heiress in his arms: “You’re not fit for my future.”
Until she realizes that, before money and power, an ordinary life and basic dignity are utterly defenseless.
At last, she opens the wooden box that has been sealed away for years.
Nine silver needles gleam with a chilling light.
Later
A powerful tech mogul bows his head before her. “Dr. Lin, please save my father.”
The former boss who bullied her for years breaks down in tears, begging for an appointment.
The ex-boyfriend who abandoned her sees her standing beside an once-unattainable business legend on the cover of a financial magazine.
And the man she personally saved on that rainy night, Gu Huaijin, the hardest and coldest man in business, gives her every bit of tenderness he has.
He clears every obstacle from her path and builds a business empire for her, yet puts away all his sharp edges when he is with her.
He says, “You saved my life. From now on, I’m yours too.”
The world knows only that Mr. Gu can command the winds and clouds, but no one knows that all he has ever wanted is for her to furrow her brow over him for a moment, then smile again.
When the century-old Nine Needles of Deliverance meet the limits of modern medicine,
when a healer who has lived quietly among ordinary people is forced onto the path of saving the world, a path she once sealed away with her own hands,
she can do more than save a single life. She can shake the world around her.
