Shen Zhiwan is a modern doctor specializing in infectious diseases at a top-tier hospital. One day, she transmigrates to a frontier post in the Western Han, where the war in the north has just ended and the sky is thick with sand.
The first thing she sees when she opens her eyes is Huo Qubing, the twenty-one-year-old young war god who has struck fear into the hearts of the Han’s enemies.
Everyone praises him as a peerless young general, a shining star of the Han dynasty who has won glory at Langjuxu.
But Shen Zhiwan alone knows the truth.
The illustrious Marquis of Champion has only three years left to live.
Poisoned water in the north, anthrax, a deadly chill that has seeped into his bones, and old battle wounds...
These hidden, fatal illnesses are beyond the understanding of Han physicians. In two years, they will erupt and cut down a generation’s war god in his prime at just twenty-four, leaving behind a regret that will haunt history.
Everyone urges him to rest and build up his strength. Shen Zhiwan is the only one who immediately identifies the root of his illness and stops him by force.
“Marquis, this isn’t exhaustion. You’ve been poisoned. If you don’t get treated, you’ll die.”
The soldiers laugh at her arrogance, the court physicians scorn her ignorance, and the powerful noble families make a joke of her.
How dare a lowly refugee doctor presume to diagnose the war god?
But no one knows...
She is the only person in the world who can defy fate and save Huo Qubing.
She boils and purifies the water, cleans and treats his wounds, and corrects the army camp’s unsanitary habits. Using the simplest ancient remedies, she overcomes a desert miasma that has gone unconquered for centuries.
Born aloof and proud, he trusts neither fate nor doctors, and certainly not love.
Yet for her, he makes exception after exception:
He lets her examine him up close, allows her to manage his daily routine, and lets her enter his tent without restraint.
A man of iron who has never had a weakness, he ultimately gives her the only tenderness, devotion, and home he will ever know.
