Revenge, satisfying wish fulfillment, strategy, medicine, poisoncraft, powerful allies, and a touch of fantasy, with poisoncraft and Gu magic lending an air of the supernatural.
Heroine: Su Muyun. In her previous life, she was a top military doctor and toxicology expert. In this life, she is the sole surviving daughter of a military family wiped out to the last, burdened with a blood feud. She is coolheaded, brilliant, quick to repay any wrong, fiercely protective of her own, and guided by firm principles. Her medical skills are miraculous, and her poisoncraft is unpredictable.
Hero: Xiao Jue, the Ninth Imperial Uncle, a powerful regent and a legendary warlord. He is cold, domineering, cunning, unfathomably deep, and unmatched in strategy. He keeps women at arm’s length in the beginning, and his identity is powerful and mysterious, perhaps concealing an even deeper secret. He suffers from a strange ailment, which is actually a complicated Gu curse or poison.
