The New York sky is brutally blue. Gifted pharmacist Celine Cheng loses her mentor in the ruins of the World Trade Center. All she was left with was a dilapidated Chinese medicine pharmacy in the Bronx and a bloody warning.
A few days later, Jack Morrison, a former Secret Service agent on the verge of collapse, broke into her pharmacy, drugged by a strange drug. What he brought was a synthetic toxin that modern medicine could not analyze, and a fatal clue.
In order to protect herself and complete her mentor's unfinished mission, Celine was forced to step into New York's underground battlefield. She uses the pharmacy as a fortress and uses top-notch chemical wisdom and ancient oriental medicine as weapons: an exquisite prescription can make the entire gang's top brass fall ill "naturally"; a silver needle can be turned into a symbol of psychological deterrence; a potion can reverse life and death at a critical moment.
From a street pharmacist, she became a feared "ghost pharmacist" in the dark world. She established a dangerous balance between gangs, intelligence agencies and mad scientists. However, when the "Stonemason" finally sets up a deadlock and injects an incurable poison into Jack's body, Celine faces the final choice.
This time, can she find a solution to the poison before it's released into the world? And does the formula for the antidote require her to use her own life as the last ingredient?
This is a story about betrayal, redemption and silent love. See how an oriental pharmacist uses the calmest mind and the hottest heart to concoct the last hope for a fallen city on top of the ruins.
