I was born into the world of xianxia and became the beloved youngest daughter of a wealthy merchant.
I thought I could spend this life lounging around and enjoying myself. Who knew my gentle, virtuous mother would suddenly become obsessed?
After taking an elixir from my younger brother, who cultivates immortality, she recovered from a serious illness. From then on, she became so obsessed with alchemy that she lost herself in it.
The second young lady of the princely household spent all day clutching the Complete Guide to Medicinal Herbs she'd swiped from the mansion's physician, blindly tinkering based on a few casual remarks her younger brother had made about alchemy.
I was forced to smell the strange concoctions she made every day, and, since I was pretending to be a baby, I couldn't speak up and stop her.
Then one day, I watched as she tossed cinnabar and strychnine into the alchemy furnace together.
Staring at the strange purple smoke rising from it, I finally couldn't hold back any longer.
Mother, that's alchemy, not poison-making!
