Su Jinnian, a medical school professor, was opening a patient's chest in the operating room one second, then found herself inside a badly written historical romance the next. She had become the eldest daughter of the Imperial Medical Bureau's physician, an ill-fated young lady whose father didn't care for her and whose mother had died young, leaving her to be bullied by her stepmother and stepsister.
From the start, she was served a bowl of sour porridge, while her stepsister put on a masterclass in manipulative sweetness. Su Jinnian rolled up her sleeves. Was this harder than stitching up blood vessels? Not really.
She climbed over the mansion wall, spotted counterfeit medicine at a pharmacy, and incidentally caught the attention of Xiao Yan, Prince of Zhenbei. The only prince in the court without royal blood, he'd spent three years in a wheelchair after being struck by a poisoned arrow. When interrogating spies, he smiled as he toyed with a dagger: the textbook definition of a dangerously unhinged man, and clearly quite ill.
Su Jinnian examined his leg and declared, "The poison hasn't been cleared. I guarantee it'll work. Take it or leave it."
From then on, she made medicine, earned money, and fought her stepmother by day, then stuck needles into the prince to clear the remaining poison at night. Her cough syrup sold all over the capital, her stepsister was married off to bring someone good fortune, and her stepmother was sent to a family temple. Life went smoothly, until the prince's leg healed.
The first thing he did after standing up was pull her into his arms.
After that, the Prince of Zhenbei's household underwent a dramatic change. He lost focus while reviewing documents, and his gifts went from medicinal herbs to live deer. The head guard recorded without expression: The prince has asked for the fifth time today where the princess consort went.
Holding a scalpel, Su Jinnian pondered: I said I'd heal his leg. I never said I'd heal his brain.
And it seemed she'd personally awakened this dangerously unhinged man's hopeless romantic side.
