The heroine, Shen Weixi, is a top surgeon and pharmacologist with many secret identities. She is forced to become a sacrificial princess. Relying on her medical skills to scrape by in the prince’s residence, she spends every day hoping to open her own clinic. Then enemy troops surround the city, and she sees the coughing prince Xiao Zhi, whom she has to treat every day, don his armor and charge into battle, killing his enemy with a single sword stroke. That night, he pinches her chin and chuckles. “My beloved consort, I’m afraid your plans will have to wait.”
