Shen Shiqing transmigrated into the body of the woman everyone in the capital avoided, believing her to be cursed with the fate of a lone star. Rumor had it she was so ill-fated that six fiancés had died one after another, in ways including but not limited to choking on water, tripping and falling to their deaths, and being struck by bird droppings falling from the sky...
Her family saw her as a jinx and promptly shoved her into a bridal sedan, marrying her off to the heir of the Marquis of Zhenbei, Gu Yanzhi, who had only one breath left in him. They called it a celebratory wedding, supposedly to ward off his illness.
On her wedding night, Shen Shiqing faced her husband, whose complexion was deathly pale and who coughed up blood nonstop, looking ready to meet his maker at any moment. She fell silent.
Everyone said she understood mysticism and could foresee life and death. Only she knew that what she practiced was traditional Chinese medicine, profiling, and microexpression analysis.
She felt her husband’s pulse and made a quick calculation. Good grief, this wasn’t a terminal illness at all. He’d been poisoned with a rare toxin, and someone had tampered with his “fate”! The poisoner had been cunning, mixing several herbs that counteracted one another to disguise the symptoms as general frailty.
And so Shen Shiqing began living a double life.
By day, she was the gentle, virtuous marquise’s heir’s wife, carefully nursing her husband back to health and using modern nutritional science to raise the standard of food in the marquis’s residence by several notches.
By night, she became a gifted doctor, using acupressure, acupuncture, and antidotes while rooting out the demons in the residence who wanted her husband dead and bringing every schemer to heel.
At first, Gu Yanzhi assumed his new bride was just another burden sent by his family, and watched her with cold indifference.
But gradually, he realized his health was improving, the family’s spies were being removed one by one, and his seemingly delicate wife could always pinpoint the flaws in the court’s political machinations.
Until one day,
