Eighteen years ago, the late emperor was killed violently by the powerful Prime Minister Zhenbei Hou who administered a bone-corroding poison. The Queen Mother discovered the conspiracy and was put into a long sleep by the "fake death incense" administered by Zhenbei Marquis. The eldest daughter of the late emperor, Ruoli, was secretly rescued from the palace by an old doctor from the Taiyuan Hospital when she was still in her infancy, and lived among the people.
During the eighteen years of Zhenbeihou's de facto regency, he gave the queen a dose of fake death incense every seven days to maintain the appearance of the "nominal queen mother" in the court, while raising another girl, Rong Zhaohua, in Cining Palace. She knew from the first day she was selected that the drop of blood taken every seven days was feeding another person outside the palace through her lifeline. She knew that Shen Ruoli was her twin sister, but Shen Ruoli never knew of her existence. The Queen Mother chose Shen Ruoli, who was born first that year, to be sent out of the palace, but she, who was born one breath later, was left to work as a medicine man for eighteen years.
Eighteen years later, Shen Ruoli practiced medicine as a "ghost doctor" among the people. He inherited his master's unique skill of thirteen needles of Huangquan. He saved the queen mother, put down the rebellion, exposed the truth about the twins, built a medical bureau, defused strange poisons, was impeached, and resolved border emergencies one by one. From the capital to the north, from the academy to the court, from the disappearance of Rong Zhaohua to the last trace of Fenggu, she did not sit on the dragon chair, but only sat in the clinic, writing the "Huangquan Medical Code" with needles, accepting apprentices to pass on medical skills, and protecting the people of the world.
Intention: A needle can save people or change their lives, a woman can leverage imperial power and guard the clinic - the greatest power in this world is not to sit on the throne, but to choose who to be.