Snow in the Green Pouch

My next upcoming novels: The Hundred-Flower Tomb, Paper Star, and The Xuanpin Tribulation

I’m studying for exams, so I’ve had to stop updating. Sorry~ I won’t abandon the story or disappear.

[The complete first draft is finished. Chapters 1–90 have had minor revisions, and chapters 91–111 have had major revisions. Two chapters updated daily.]

[Woman Disguised as a Man · Revenge and Political Scheming · A Touch of Ensemble Cast · The Heroine’s Secret Identity Is Fully Revealed]

On the surface, the heroine is a cool and aloof miracle-working physician. In truth, she is a mastermind who plans every move and stays several steps ahead.

On the surface, the hero is down on his luck and idle. In truth, he is a patient strategist, quietly laying his plans.

Ten years ago, the entire family of Zhang Shao, Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau, was slaughtered. Only his young daughter survived by faking her death.

Ten years later, a miracle-working physician arrived in Nanyang City. Her surname was Jiang, and her given name was Heng. Known as Master Yun Heng, she was renowned for her medical skills and had saved countless lives.

She was the one who personally brought the young son of the Dou family back from the brink of death.

And she was the one who poisoned him.

When she first met Liu Heng, he asked, "Such a swift blade. Do you use it to kill or to save?"

She replied calmly, "I save those who should be saved, and kill those who should be killed."

Later, he took an arrow meant for her, and blood soaked half his robe. She sealed the vessels around his heart with golden needles. "I want you to live."

His fingertips brushed the corner of her eye. "Your tears burn more than my blood."

He said he had no courtesy name.

So she gave him one: Chen, meaning "treasure."

He asked, "Why a treasure?"

She did not answer.

On this road of revenge, he was not one of her pawns. He was the only person she could face death alongside.

But some things, once said, cannot be taken back.

When the canal transport case and the salt license case erupted one after another, the truth behind the regicide ten years earlier also came to light.

She had to ask herself: in this game of chess played with the realm as the board, could she still keep him as a living piece?

What would come after her revenge?

She had no answer, and he did not ask.

Because some answers do not need to be spoken.

Beyond power and influence, people still choose whom to support. Beneath every disguise lies a genuine heart.

Extra scenes

1. A Heart Laid Bare on a Snowy Night

In an icy cave in the snow-covered mountains, Jiang Heng was gathering a medicinal ingredient when the cold poison in her body flared up.

Liu Heng tore open his robe and wrapped it around her, his chest pressed against her back. "Physician, heal thyself? I never thought I would see the day you needed help."

"Your heartbeat is so loud I can't take your pulse properly."

He suddenly took her icy hand and pressed it against his chest. "Everything beating in here is you, Jiang Heng, Zhang Yun, Chu Heng... Every name is yours."

Outside the cave, snow swept down in a blizzard. Inside, the campfire crackled.

In his arms, she murmured, "Do the Qiang have a cure for madness?"

He kissed the snowmelt from her brow. "Yes. You."

2. Confrontation

In the secret chamber, Liu Heng held the Treatise on Saving the People over the candle flame.

"I'll trade this medical text for one honest answer. Have you ever felt even the slightest affection for me?"

Jiang Heng reached straight for the flames.

He hastily snatched the book away, blistering his palm.

"Are you insane?"

"Physicians cherish their books most." She tore off a strip of her skirt to bandage his hand. "But I cherish my life more than books. My life is meant to save the people of the realm. I have no time for romance with you."

He suddenly seized her wrist and pressed his injured palm to her chest. "But your heart is beating so fast. Jiang Heng, what are you afraid of?"

She pulled her hand free. "That your blood will dirty my needles."

3. Gathering Herbs in the Snowy Mountains

On a sheer cliff, Liu Heng hung one-handed from a vine, with a bottomless abyss below.

"Let go." Jiang Heng looked down at him coldly. "The hemp rope I brought can't hold two people."

Instead, he tightened his grip around her ankle. "If I fall, you'll dream about this for the rest of your life: Liu Heng died because you refused to save him."

She suddenly slashed through the vine!

As he plunged down, the hemp rope around his waist snapped taut.

She had already secured it in a crack in the rock.

"You bet I'd go soft?" she sneered, gripping the rope.

Using the rope to swing himself up, he climbed onto the cliff and opened his palm to reveal a hairpin. "No. I bet you'd need this."

Jiang Heng looked at his palm. It was a crane-patterned hairpin.

4. Taking an Arrow

"Why did you take that arrow for me?" Jiang Heng pulled the poisoned arrow from Liu Heng's shoulder, her voice trembling.

His pale lips curved into a smile. "The Qiang have a saying: a man who bleeds for a woman will become her eternal nightmare."

"That's nonsense!" She sealed the vessels around his heart with golden needles.

"I want you to live, so you can watch me crush your dream of ruling the realm with my medical skills!"

His fingertips brushed the corner of her eye. "But your tears... burn more than my blood."

5. A Promise in Eagle Feathers

On the Qiang grasslands, Liu Heng was teaching Jiang Heng to train eagles, but deliberately set a hunting falcon loose to attack her.

"Raise your left hand an inch." He stood behind her, arms encircling her.

His breath brushed Jiang Heng's ear. "Otherwise, it'll tear your throat out."

She struck him in the chest with her elbow and seized the leather glove. "Training an eagle is like treating a patient."

A whistle rang out, and the falcon landed on her shoulder. She tore the iron chain from its neck.

"You can't earn loyalty through restraints, Liu Heng. You'll never understand."

He watched the eagle soar across the sky, then suddenly plunged a dagger into his left arm. "What if I make a pact with my blood?"

Blood stained the eagle's feathers red. He picked the brightest plume and tucked it into her hair.

"This eagle is yours. And I belong to the eagle."

6. The Endgame

"I regret this game of chess."

"What do you regret?"

"That I didn't write our names on the very first page of the chess record."

"No need for regret. On the last page, you make the final stroke, and I make the first. This game was never about winning or losing."

Extra scenes are being updated

[Reading Guide]

Pacing: The first volume focuses on political maneuvering and planning. The romance begins to develop in the second volume. There are many characters early on, so please be patient.

Political scheming: The cases are intricately connected, and the foreshadowing runs deep. We recommend reading every chapter in order.

Characters: The Liu imperial family has a naming pattern spanning three generations. The first generation uses the "sun" radical (Emperor Liu Yu and Prince of Changshan Liu Sheng), while the second uses the "jade" radical (Emperor Liu Wei and the hero Liu Heng). Remember this pattern, and the family connections will be easy to follow.

Romance: All three main romances are mutual, with no love triangles. Romance is a variable in the political game, not the main plot.

Orchid Fate and Jade Moon: Jiang Heng x Liu Heng

Bamboo's Clear Call: Na Li x A Ruo

Knowing Fei Jun: Deng Zhao x Pei Yan

Secret identity reveal: The heroine's identity as a woman disguised as a man is exposed in the middle-to-late part of the story. This reveal is an important plot point.

Ending: HE, but there is angst along the way.

[The Hundred-Flower Tomb · Upcoming Novel Blurb] -----------------

"The mountain has trees, and the trees have branches. My heart delights in you, but you do not know."

When Ji Yunlang sang this tune at Princess Suiyang's residence, she was only a sixteen-year-old songstress.

She had no idea that three days later, she would be presented to the reigning emperor.

Still less did she know that from then on, her life would hold only the sorrow of that one song.

After one night in the emperor's favor, she rose from obscurity.

She thought it was the most beautiful beginning.

Only after more than a year of neglect did she realize it was nothing but a passing whim of the emperor's.

The palace gates were no more than a tomb built from flowers.

She climbed out of the Cold Palace, gave birth to a daughter, and was promoted to Jieyu.

Her younger brother rose from stable hand to great general, and her nephew was made Marquis Champion.

She personally sent Chen Ti to Changmen Palace and watched Li Shunhua die of illness...

Ten years later, she wore the phoenix crown and became empress.

She had won.

But as she looked at the flowers in the imperial garden, once in bloom and now faded, she suddenly wanted to cry.

In the harem of three thousand beauties, everyone wanted to be queen of the flowers.

But they did not know...

The Tomb of a Hundred Flowers had long been filled with blooms, and buried beneath them as well.

The flowers became a tomb, and she buried every rival with her own hands.

In the end, she buried herself, too.

She buried the flowers, and the flowers buried her.

Theme: Even in darkness, you must carve out a path for yourself