Sixteen years ago, Gu Jinghong, the first pharmacist of Shang Yao Bureau, presided over the refining of the Purple Gold Life-Extension Pill used in the Queen Mother's birthday party. However, he was convicted of hiding poison in the pill and was sentenced to "suicide in fear of crime." Twenty-seven pharmaceutical workers involved in the pharmaceutical industry have also disappeared, and her newborn daughter Gu Yunshang has been decriminalized.
Sixteen years later, Gu Yunshang is still the humblest pharmacist in Shang Pharmacy. During a drug incident, she unexpectedly discovered a copy of the division of labor signed by her mother - twenty-seven names, corresponding to procurement, drug testing, processing, sealing and delivery of drugs. It was also a complete chain of evidence that could clear her mother's crime.
However, just as she found the first survivor, he was poisoned and a medicine seal belonging to Gu Yunshang was left next to the body.
In order to reverse the case for his mother, get rid of the crime, and to save the remaining survivors, Gu Yunshang teamed up with Pei Yan, the judge of Dali Temple, to investigate the old case. Faced with suspicion and frame-up again and again, she refused to argue with useless words, and only used medicine dregs, prescriptions, seals and account books to provide evidence.
She initially pursued power just to control her own destiny; but later she gradually understood that only by standing high enough can more people's names not be easily erased.
From a criminal drug practitioner to the top commander of the Food and Drug Administration, from seeking a way out for oneself to leaving rules for those who come after to follow -
What she wanted to find out was never just a drug case.
It's about how far a powerless woman must go among the many palace gates before she can truly have the qualifications to choose her own life.
