Lin Wan never imagined he would transmigrate to a matriarchal world and become the lowliest apprentice apothecary in the Imperial Medical Academy.
In his previous body, a mistake had earned him a night kneeling in punishment, and he had burned to death in a woodshed. When he wakes up, his first crisis is an emergency involving Consort Xian. The Imperial Medical Academy is helpless, and everyone in the courtyard is about to lose their heads.
Fortunately, he has an “Imperial Tutor System” in his mind. Every time he solves a palace crisis, he unlocks modern knowledge: emergency medicine, psychology, management... Every time he uses a cheat, though, there’s a price: a brief headache, followed by an even greater crisis.
From apprentice apothecary to palace reader, then to imperial consort... every step he takes is fraught with danger.
Empress Xiao Fengming is an icy, iron-fisted ruler. Ten years into her reign, she still has no heir. Ministers are pressing her to abdicate, and undercurrents are churning. She trusts no one, until she meets this little apothecary who keeps saying, “We call that... in the modern world.”
The imperial harem has never been just the imperial harem. The aristocrat Yun Ci hides a knife behind her smile; the military officer’s daughter Su Xiaoman has a fiery temper but a genuine heart; and the wily Chancellor Cui is closing in at every turn. Everyone is waiting for a chance to seize the empress’s weakness. And that weakness, of all people, is him.
