The Poison-Hearted Physician: Moonlight on the Palace Walls, Shadows of Power Struggles

In the inner palace of the Great Jing Dynasty, everyone knows that Su Lingxi, a newly arrived young doctor in the Laundry Bureau, is an oddity. She carries a shabby medicine case on her back and is always wandering into the abandoned courtyards of the Cold Palace. With a touch of her fingertips, she can make withered poisonous herbs bloom in an instant, or leave a once-favored consort haggard overnight. Stranger still, she can hear herbs whisper and see the lingering obsessions of the dead. The blood-red mandrake growing wildly in Consort Shu's chambers repeats the words "It wasn't me" at midnight, while the waterlogged medicinal dregs in the dry well in the imperial gardens form the face of a missing palace maid. No one knows that Su Lingxi entered the palace only to investigate the mysterious death of her elder sister five years ago. Rumor has it that her sister's death was tied to the crown prince's struggle for power and the secrets of the harem. She navigates between a Consort who hides a dagger behind her smile and the princes watching like tigers, using poison to save lives and medicine to kill. But when she treats the Third Prince, Xiao Yu, for poison, she discovers that hidden in his sleeve is half of a jade pendant identical to her sister's. As supernatural medicine exposes palace intrigue, and a playful disguise conceals a blood feud, Su Lingxi finally realizes that within these red walls, the most poisonous thing is not medicine, but the human heart. And she has already been swept into a vortex of power that threatens the very fate of the dynasty in her search for the truth.