The female lead's characterization in this book has changed quite a bit, though the general direction remains the same. I'm now starting over with revisions: one of the first 30 chapters will be replaced each day, followed by new content.
A powerful aristocratic minister who lives two lives, as a man by day and a woman by night, forced to maintain two identities VS a physician who saves lives without asking where people come from and uses her medical skills to challenge political schemes
Yan Liangyu never regrets saving someone.
Even if the person she saves is a villain, an enemy, or someone who will one day put a knife to her throat.
To her, letting someone die when she could have saved them is more painful than saving the wrong person.
She only regrets not having left herself a way out.
The person she saved is the future head of the Pei clan by day, but becomes a woman at night.
When she stumbled upon the secret, she thought she wouldn't live to see the next day.
But she didn't run. She searched through ancient books and found a way to stay alive.
Armed with her one and only bargaining chip, she won herself a chance to live.
She would find him an antidote, and he would help her escape the fate of becoming a concubine.
Thus began a deal built on mutual exploitation and suspicion.
From then on,
she treated his illness,
and he shielded her from danger.
She saved his life,
and he kept her alive.
They used each other and kept each other at arm's length.
Until a ghostly pregnancy came to light, plague spread, imperial power struggles intensified, and aristocratic clans fought for dominance...
Only then did they realize
that the greatest danger had never been the secret,
but that they had already become each other's greatest vulnerability.
I've finished drafting the entire novel
