Twelve years ago, Su Heng accidentally cured a palace noble who had been poisoned, inadvertently uncovering a plot to poison someone in the imperial harem. To cover up her crimes, Noble Consort Zhao joined forces with the Crown Prince’s faction to frame the Su family, fabricating the “Su Family Poisoning Case” and sentencing the entire family to death. Because Su Jiu was still young, her father sent her away in advance. An old servant took her to live in seclusion in Jiangnan, where she later became an apprentice to a reclusive renowned physician.
