Jing Xi, the Great Jing dynasty’s guardian general, is struck by a strange poison that attacks the heart. After searching everywhere without success, he finally finds Qi Yu, a reclusive physician living deep in the bamboo forests of Zhuxi.
Qi Yu is only twenty-eight, frail in white robes, with madness hidden in his eyes. He declares, “I’ll be your medicine. We must never be apart, day or night.” His silver needles can save a life, or take one.
Jing Xi is gentle and calculating, commanding a hundred thousand troops on the border, yet he willingly falls into this tender snare. He obsesses over every detail and protects his own without question, treating Qi Yu as the only person in his heart. Qi Yu is a scheming, possessive madman, advancing step by step with one goal: to keep this peerless god of war by his side.
As a struggle for the throne brews at court and the Qi family’s old case is cleared, needle and sword fight side by side, while poison and love grow together.
“General, you are my illness, and there is no cure.”
“You are my antidote, and I’ll never trade you for anything.”
This is a game of mutual calculation, and a mutual descent into obsession. Xi and Yu are prisoners of love, and they won’t stop until death.
