Gu Qingyi died once.
She was pushed into an icy lake by her stepsister, and when she woke up, the body was no longer the cowardly daughter of the Marquis, but Su Jin, a doctor of toxicology from modern times. The high fever had not subsided, so her stepmother sent someone to bring her a bowl of "tonic medicine" - not to kill her on the spot, but to linger on the bed and be a medicine jar for anyone to manipulate.
She knocked over the medicine bowl, dipped her fingertips in the medicine and brought it to the tip of her nose. She said to the maid who was holding the medicine: "Go back and report to Madam. Are the wild ginseng in the warehouse stored together with Cao Wu and Aconite?"
Everyone thought she was still the eldest daughter of the Gu family who allowed others to bully her. No one knew that beneath this thin skin was a pair of eyes that could see through all the poison in the world.
When the stepmother brought the poisoned wine with a smile, she pointed to the foaming wine stains and said to the guests in the hall: "Osmanthus wine is warm in nature, but will foam when exposed to arsenic. Mother, do you want to honor me or the King of Hell with this glass of wine?"
When she accidentally caught a glimpse of the profile of Prince Xiao Yan under the lanterns of the Lantern Festival, and when Zhou Wanning sent a secret message - "The Prince is seriously ill, and the situation in the palace is about to change" - she didn't know yet that the sick and frail prince, who had the same sharp eyes as her in desperate situations, would drag her out of the chess game at home into a bigger whirlpool.
