Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Qi Caiyin woke up one day to find she had transmigrated. Even stranger, her father was an old physician employed by the Loyal and Brave Earl's household.
Though he had worked at the earl's estate for many years, Qi Caiyin's father was honest but only an average doctor. His masters never thought much of him, so he got by on a small, fixed monthly wage.
Qi Caiyin's parents had planned to live out their lives in quiet simplicity. But one day, Qi Caiyin suddenly announced that she was going to the rear courtyard to treat a young maid.
Who would have guessed that this trip would make Qi Caiyin famous among the servants at the estate? After that, whenever a maid or a matron had a headache or a fever, they would come to her.
But Qi Caiyin wanted more than that. She also wanted to treat the ladies and young misses of the earl's household.
In the rear courtyard, the elderly madam was plagued by one ailment or another. She had seen several doctors and taken plenty of prescriptions, but none had helped much.
Some of the principal wives had reached menopause and suffered from prolonged bleeding; others were so anxious they could not sleep at night; still others were frail and unable to take on too much work.
The more than a dozen concubines were also seeking doctors and remedies everywhere, hoping to bear a child soon so they would have someone to rely on.
As for the young ladies, they were very interested in beauty pills and slimming soups.
With her excellent medical skills and silver tongue, Qi Caiyin deftly navigated the household, soon becoming the earl's estate's only female physician.
But what the women of the household could never have expected was that the wives and young ladies of other prominent families in the capital would also come calling, all to have Qi Caiyin take their pulses and treat them.
November 26, 2025
Theme: Strive to live well
