[About the Heroine, Yun Ling] She entered the palace at six and secretly began studying medicine at twelve. She doesn't say much, and she has a steady heart. Her eyes are fixed on medicinal herbs and patients. While others compete for favor and dress to impress in the palace, she turns bamboo trays in the herb-drying yard. When people call her wooden, she just smiles and gets back to work. Then one day, she meets Shen Yizhi: the young imperial physician standing by the drying racks, pointing at a winnowing basket and saying, “This is Japanese orchid root. It hasn't been washed clean.”
[About the Hero, Shen Yizhi]
The youngest imperial physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau, he is the grandson of the director of imperial physicians, and his father died fighting on the frontier. Gentle and composed, he nevertheless holds fast to one unfulfilled wish: to travel to the frontier and provide free medical care, fulfilling his father's dying wish. He hides his feelings in every medical book he gives her: poria, Chinese angelica, and dahurian angelica root. He never says a word, yet somehow says everything. There are no grand declarations of love between them, only the sight of them copying medical records together late at night in an old house, the unspoken understanding they share as they deliver a baby through a window, and the words they exchange as they each pursue their dreams: “Wait for me to come back.”
[About the Story]
This is a story of rising from obscurity: from a palace maid in the Imperial Pharmacy to the first female physician in the Imperial Medical Bureau.
This is a story of dreams: she spends twenty years compiling Records of Women Physicians, hoping women everywhere will no longer be shut out of medicine.
It is also a story of waiting: she writes and practices medicine within the palace walls, while he travels beyond the frontier to treat the sick for free. They love each other, but each has a path of their own to follow.
Dedicated to everyone walking their own path.
May you have someone in your eyes, work in your hands, and light in your heart.
This is a story about growth and dreams, which is very powerful after reading it.
There is not too much love and affection, but more about ideals and perseverance, which is very deep.
The writing style is very stable and the story is solid. It is a good article worth savoring slowly.
The interaction between the male and female protagonists is very touching, and the tacit understanding is so exciting.
The author's description of ancient medical skills is very careful, and it can be seen that he has put a lot of effort into it.
I really like this kind of heroine who focuses on her professional field, she is focused and charming.
It's not bad, it's plain and true, it's not dramatic, but it makes people have endless aftertaste.
The heroine looks so cool in her career, and the love line is the icing on the cake, I love it.
The writing style is very comfortable, the ancient charm is very strong, and it feels very immersive when reading.
The story is delicate and powerful, and the heroine's persistence is really touching. It's worth watching.