[Female healer + revenge + political intrigue + strong heroine]
She was “dead” for seven years. When she returned, her parents had been framed and sentenced to death.
At fourteen, she fell off a cliff and was trapped in a remote mountain valley, where a mad old man used her as a medicinal ingredient for seven years. She gave birth to a child there, mastered needles, medicine, and poison, then killed her master and escaped the valley.
She changed her surname to Hao, established her own household, and opened an apothecary. With one glance, she diagnosed a village child with roundworm, and three doses of medicine saved the county magistrate’s mother. Rumors followed her: “The dead woman is back!” “That bastard child was born out of wedlock!” Patients came to her door: the magistrate’s mother had suffered a stroke, and the physicians were helpless. Her enemies would not leave her alone: the powerful minister wanted to uproot her completely, while a benefactor from her past turned around and betrayed her.
With silver needles in one hand and poison in the other, she travels from village to capital, healing and killing along the way.
Her medicine cures every illness, and her power reaches to the heavens.
