Your Highness, Are You Blind Today?

Shen Yao is the most talented pharmacist in the world.

At least, that's what she says.

She has devoted herself to making hundreds of prescriptions deep in the mountains. Each one has a potent effect, but she can't find anyone to test them on.

Then Heaven takes pity on her and drops a stranded young nobleman right outside her home.

The young nobleman is truly a sight to behold: handsome and dignified, with a slender waist and long legs.

Even better, he's badly injured and half dead, with only a pair of cold eyes glinting in the darkness.

Shen Yao drags him inside to treat him, then pours a powerful medicine down his throat.

He goes blind.

A mistake, a mistake. It was purely accidental.

Let's try again.

To get him to cooperate with her medicine trials, Shen Yao speaks to him softly and kindly, begging him to stay alive. At last, the young nobleman's ears turn red, and he does whatever she says.

After trying out dozens of prescriptions day and night, his weak body becomes strong and vigorous, his blood running hot.

But she was testing medicine on him, and somehow her own blood starts running hot, too.

When Shen Yao wakes up, the man sleeping beside her has a rosy complexion, and his smooth, bare body is covered in bruises.

She vaguely remembers their passionate night. He had whispered in her ear, swearing that he would stay by her side for life, never leaving or forsaking her.

Shen Yao is silent for three seconds, then leaps out of bed and runs off, clutching her waist.

.

Six months later, she accompanies her mother to a palace banquet.

While secretly writing someone a prescription, she suddenly spots a man on a distant raised platform, tall and graceful, with an otherworldly air.

Someone nearby cries, "His Highness the Crown Prince!"

The brush slips from her hand.

Who did you say that was? The Crown Prince, the one rumored to be ruthless and merciless, known as the Asura?

Why does he look exactly like the stranded young nobleman in her little house, the one whose ears turned red as he spoke softly and promised to repay her, saying he'd even be her dog if she asked?

Li Zhi approaches. His gaze sweeps over her face. "I hear Miss Shen knows a fair bit about medicine?"

Shen Yao waves her hands hurriedly. "Who would say such a thing? Who's spreading rumors about me? I'm just the eldest daughter of Minister Shen, a proper young lady who never leaves the inner chambers."

Theme: Take what you love seriously and give it your all