Shen Chongnian, the Imperial Academy of Medicine’s director in the Great Yu Dynasty, was falsely accused and his entire family was massacred. His only daughter, Shen Ru, escaped and returned after ten years of studying medicine in the Southern Borderlands.
Step by step, she established herself in the Bureau of Medicine, used medical records to clear her father’s name, followed the salt-tax trail to eliminate the remaining conspirators, and used the border defenses as her chessboard to successfully stop a shocking coup planned over more than twenty years.
Marquis Dingbei: “Either my son becomes emperor, or I do. You all can decide.”
Young Master Gu: “I might as well give up the position of chief councilor. I plan to go tutor a five-year-old child instead.”
Sima An: “As long as my name is Sima An, I’ll serve only the emperor for the rest of my life!”
