Six years ago, my mother went crazy.
When I was thirteen years old, I learned that she was poisoned and driven crazy by her father himself.
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My mother is the legitimate daughter of the Lin family, a famous doctor in Jiangnan, and she married my father, a poor boy from a handyman background. Everyone said that they were affectionate and that he was a gentleman who knew how to repay kindness.
When she was seven years old, my mother suddenly went crazy. From then on, he was imprisoned in a separate courtyard outside the city for six years.
Dad said that Mom needs to rest and not see people.
I believed it.
Until my thirteenth birthday, I secretly went to another courtyard without telling everyone——
"Xian'er, mother is not sick, she is drugged and placed under house arrest! Your father... He is no longer your father!"
Before I had time to ask the truth, footsteps sounded outside the door.
At that moment I realized: the home I had lived in for thirteen years was a carefully crafted scam.
And that medical book, which contained the Lin family's century-old secrets, had been sewn into my swaddling clothes by my mother when I was one year old, and I had to carry it with me for thirteen years.
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Three years later.
I changed my name to Lin Jingxuan, walked around the world as a man, and secretly became the leader of the Baicao Gang.
I opened a medicine shop in the capital, opposite the Imperial Hospital - the place where "imperial medicinal materials" are transported to the Prime Minister's Mansion every day.
A major epidemic broke out in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people's life-saving medicines were confiscated by the imperial court.
I stood in front of the map, looking at the circled medicinal origins, and suddenly understood:
They are not preparing medicine.
They want to use this plague to eradicate everyone who stands in their way.
But they forgot one thing——
I, Shen Jingxian, crawled out from among the dead.
