She was a modern doctoral student of traditional Chinese medicine. When she opened her eyes, however, she had become the sickly young master of a physician's family.
Her father begged her: take your frail twin brother's place in the palace, or the whole family would die.
Grinding her teeth, Nana agreed and entered the palace disguised as a man. On her first day reporting for duty, she stopped a horse in the street and immediately diagnosed the cold-faced Fifth Prince, Xiao Heng, with a hidden ailment. She treated him with acupuncture in front of everyone. From then on, the living calamity had his eye on her, and she became a thorn in his side.
The palace was rife with undercurrents. The Crown Prince held a banquet to test her, the shameless Seventh Prince insisted on becoming her roommate, and the gentle Second Prince seemed to be hiding a secret. Nana had hoped to keep her head down and stay alive, but she couldn't hide her medical skills. She stunned everyone at the entrance exam with a corpse, exposed the truth behind the Crown Prince's poisoning at a medicinal banquet, and single-handedly saved an entire city when an epidemic broke out.
But standing out too much brought trouble. On the very day her brain surgery succeeded, the Imperial Guards burst in: the imperial physician's daughter had committed the crime of deceiving the emperor!
At the brink of life and death, the cold-faced prince gave up his title to protect her, her dissolute classmates jointly petitioned on her behalf, and the Grand Princess appeared with an old case file. It turned out that Nana's origins were tied to a wrongful conviction from ten years ago.
As the first female imperial physician of Great Liang, she would heal the world and bring healing to all its women.
The empire as a betrothal gift? All she wanted was a set of golden needles.
“I don't want to be empress. I only want to be your personal imperial physician for the rest of my life.”
