Shen Qingyuan, the concubine of the Ministry of Official Affairs, studied medicine with her mother since she was a child. She hid half of the ancestral medical books and her superb acupuncture skills, and lived a cautious life in a deep house. An imperial edict granting marriage broke the peace. My sister-in-law refused to marry Gu Yan, the general of Zhenbei who was rumored to have a disabled leg and a cold temperament. She was ordered to marry him and went to the border town of northern Xinjiang.
Everyone in the world said that this was jumping into a pit of fire, but Shen Qingyuan knew that this was her way out of the cage of a deep house. Carrying the relics of her biological mother, she did not compete for the favor of the inner court, and relied solely on her medical skills to make a living: when the youngest son in the family was critically ill with high fever, she administered acupuncture to reduce the fever overnight; when an epidemic broke out in the army, she devised isolation and elimination methods to stabilize the situation; when the common people suffered from frostbite, she made ointments and gave them to him for free. The name "Doctor Shen" gradually spread throughout Zhenbeicheng.
Gu Yan was initially wary of the concubine whom he was ordered to marry, but he was moved by her kindness and resilience time and time again. She is calm and transparent, focused and determined when practicing medicine, and calm and unhurried in times of crisis. She is like a medicinal herb that has broken ground in the cold soil of Northern Saibei. She is weak but has great tenacity.
From testing and alienation to trusting each other, she used silver needles to dissolve the old bruises on his legs, and also warmed his heart of guarding the border that had been frozen for many years; he protected her freedom to practice medicine and supported a stable world for her. War broke out on the border again, and the old cases of defeat gradually emerged. The couple worked together to defend the country and clear their grievances. In the wind and sand, they became each other's most solid support.
