Su Nian, the youngest associate chief surgeon at a top-tier hospital, woke up in the body of Shen Ruchu, the least favored concubine-born daughter in the Prime Minister’s household.
Her birth mother, Concubine Lin, had “died of illness” three years ago. Her stepmother, Madam Lin, relentlessly cornered her, her father pretended not to notice, and no one in the household treated her like a person.
She was in a dead-end situation from the start.
But she had a blade in her hand.
The skills she’d honed over thousands of surgeries in her previous life were just as useful in this one. With a silver needle in hand, she could snatch patients back from the King of Hell himself.
At a flower-viewing banquet, her legitimate elder sister waited for her to make a fool of herself. Instead, Shen saved a critically ill patient from the Marquis of Yongning’s household with a single needle and became the talk of the capital.
When Madam Lin poisoned her, she countered every move.
When her stepmother set a trap, she turned it to her advantage.
When her father schemed against her, she used his plans to her own benefit.
Everyone thought she was an easy target they could push around. By the time they realized otherwise, she had already risen beyond their reach.
At first, Seventh Prince Xiao Jingyan was merely curious: What gave a concubine-born daughter the nerve to use needles in front of all the noblewomen of the capital?
Later, he understood: She wasn’t brave. She simply belonged there.
Later still, he realized that the place he wanted to stand was by her side.
But Shen Ruchu had no time for romance.
Her mother hadn’t died of illness. A name had been erased from a medical text, and a secret network at Hanmei Manor led to a decade-old case.
Before anything else, she would seek justice for the dead.
