I Saved Empress Ma, Then Hung Myself and Shook the Great Ming Court

[Ming Dynasty + System + Divine Doctor + Court Politics + Pure Thrill]

Shen Yan is a condemned doctor awaiting death in the imperial prison. Empress Ma is critically ill, and Zhu Biao is on the brink of death. If Shen Yan can't save them both, he'll lose his head at dawn.

In his darkest hour, the Life-Prolonging System activates. Saving someone who is certain to die earns him medical skills, extra years of life, and ways to protect himself, but he must never reveal the System.

From the start, he is rewarded with divine medical skills. One needle revives Empress Ma, and one bowl of medicine saves Zhu Biao. Zhu Yuanzhang pardons him on the spot.

But Shen Yan only wants to return to his original world. The System tells him that ending his own life will send him back, so that night he slips away from the Imperial Guards and hangs himself with a white silk cord.

His body has barely grown cold when the System's second phase begins, granting him seven days to return to life. Zhu Yuanzhang, however, is convinced that the entire court forced the Ming Dynasty's great physician to his death.

The palace gates are sealed, and officials kneel throughout the Fengtian Hall. The inner palace, nobles, and regional princes are all terrified. One white silk cord is about to bring down the Ming Dynasty.

Empress Ma is distraught, and Zhu Biao's old illness returns. The imperial physicians are helpless, and the famous doctors dare not act. Only Shen Yan, lying in his coffin, can put an end to this deadly crisis.

On the day he returns to life, Shen Yan pushes open his coffin and strides into Fengtian Hall in his funeral shroud. He saves the empress, protects the crown prince, and forces the emperor to lower his blade.

Zhu Yuanzhang grips his sword and shouts, “Are you man or ghost?” Shen Yan holds up a silver needle. “Your Majesty, I haven't even decided who gets to die yet. Who dares die before me!”