In the Great Yong Dynasty, Shen Qingci, the illegitimate daughter of the Shen family’s apothecary in Jiangnan, is falsely accused by her stepmother and legitimate elder sister of “having an affair with another man” and thrown into a pond to drown and feed the fish!
As she lies dying in the icy water, she awakens all the memories of a modern chief physician specializing in traditional Chinese medicine: acupuncture, prescriptions, emergency care, pharmacology, all at her fingertips!
Clawing her way back to life from a pile of discarded herbs, she proceeds with careful precision:
She exposes counterfeit medicine and improves prescriptions, using modern medical knowledge to crush the incompetent doctors of the ancient world and publicly humiliate her “fake miracle-doctor” stepsister.
She saves lives, treating patients from the streets of Suzhou all the way to the emperor’s bedchamber. Even the old imperial physicians kneel to ask her for advice.
She tears into her stepmother and kicks the pretentious white lotus, forcing everyone who once trampled on her to submit in turn.
The cold and aloof heir Xiao Jingyuan secretly protects her, while the gentle medical prodigy Gu Yunzhou devotes himself to her. Together, they carve out a path through the whirlpool of political intrigue!
She ventures deep into the forbidden lands of Miao territory in search of the Nine-Turn Resurrection Herb, unlocks a long-lost compendium of medicine and poison, and discovers her bloodline as a Miao holy maiden.
From an illegitimate daughter thrown into a pond to Great Yong’s revered physician and miracle doctor, she breaks the shackles of legitimate and illegitimate birth, takes control of the Imperial Medical Academy, and monopolizes the medicinal trade, leaving the entire dynasty captivated by the fragrance of her remedies!
This time, everyone who ever humiliated her will kneel before her medical art!
