She was the last survivor of a military family. To uncover the truth behind its destruction, she was forced to become the “wife” of the powerful chief grand secretary. He treated her like a canary in a gilded cage, and she played the part of his obedient substitute, all the while carefully plotting with her medical skills. When his true beloved returned, she smiled as she handed him divorce papers, then vanished without a trace. Later, at a palace banquet, the newly appointed head of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce and special female official of the Imperial Medical Academy dazzled everyone. The chief grand secretary, once so arrogant he looked down on the world, went red-eyed and knelt in the rain outside her residence. “Lanlan, I offer you the realm as my bride price. Will you come back to me?”
