Grandma was critically ill, her blood oxygen at 85%.
Shen Xuan caught the smell of bitter almonds, a sign of digitalis poisoning. Her stepmother had administered the poison, the doctor had prescribed the medicine, and her father had turned a blind eye. Yet the medical records said “primary heart failure.”
Forced to sign a letter of forgiveness to scrape together the 500,000 yuan needed to save Grandma, she found a workplace injury settlement from 23 years ago in her father’s briefcase. The dead man was her stepmother’s brother. The compensation was 8,000 yuan, and the person who signed it had died of a “sudden illness” six months earlier.
Her father’s blood test results showed:
✅ Reserpine above the safe limit (doctor: Liu Zhenye)
✅ Digitalis poisoning (her stepmother’s “folk remedy”)
✅ Chloroform residue (industrial solvent)
Three poisons, two murderers, and a 23-year revenge plot.
Shen Xuan disguised herself as an investor and clinked glasses with pharmaceutical mogul Zhao Guangming at a banquet. But Zhao Guangming raised his glass with a smile. “Dr. Shen Xuan, has your father recovered from his chloroform poisoning?”
Her identity was exposed. The private room was sealed.
Her phone vibrated: [11:00, blow up the building]
The time was 10:40.
She pressed the emergency button. “I replaced your son’s emergency inhaler with an identical one.”
“And your lab’s ‘Dandelion’ sample is being tested at the provincial disease control center.”
Hostages on both sides: if one went down, they would all go down.
The real killing blow lay in three documents:
1. Grandma’s blood sample (the fourth toxin)
2. The workplace injury video from 23 years ago (murder)
3. Zhao Guangming’s encrypted emails (bioweapons deal)
Using her professional knowledge to take revenge, she turned every murderer into a statistic in a medical record.
