This Medicine Is No Medicine (Political Intrigue)

A heroine living in a serious drama x a restrained, self-controlled hero

She was an ordinary female physician, with a steady hand when taking pulses and a precise touch with her brush. Her face was always warm and smiling.

But that was only the surface.

An impossible pulse appeared beneath her fingertips. Following the scent of medicine, she tracked it all the way to Liujiang City.

She practiced medicine in the open and unraveled mysteries in secret. She was determined to find out what secrets this city, famous for its medicinal herbs, was hiding.

Until the person in charge of Riverside Tower handed her a prescription and invited her into the game.

He didn’t know that Jiang Mingyi had been waiting for this moment.

Reading Guide

1. Regular updates. Enjoy with confidence.

2. I’m not a medical professional, so I can only research the prescriptions as best I can and try to keep them plausible. I’ve also made up some details for the sake of the plot, so research purists, please beware.

3. One-on-one romance, but this is absolutely the heroine’s story.

4. Exclusively published on Jinjiang. No reposting.

5. Anti-piracy measures. The title has been changed slightly.

The sweet historical romance The One Outside the Rules is available to follow. If you’re interested, please add it to your collection on my author page~

[Blurb]

Down-on-her-luck, food-loving censor’s daughter x proper, fatherly, food-loving tutor

The Bai family had a rule: When you’re out and about, only say what you’re allowed to say.

Her father made the rule when he was a censor. He’d lost his official hat, but it was taking him a while to get used to relaxing the rules. Bai Zhiyan had held her tongue for sixteen years. Only after moving with her father to Luming Academy did she finally find someone to talk to.

Their neighbor was a refined, courteous young man. The two households shared a kitchen. Before she could even say hello, her father told her to take out a bowl of braised pork, saying it was a friendly gesture between colleagues and the neighbor should have a taste.

Wen Xu opened the door next door, looking wary. He accepted the bowl but didn’t invite her in.

The next day, he returned the bowl, washed clean, with a note tucked inside: “The meat was a little too salty.”

Bai Zhiyan gripped the note, furious for half the night. She had cooked that meat! ༽◺_◿༼

From that day on, she was determined to get the better of her neighbor. When she sent over vegetables, she included a note:

“This humble woman has heard: Sir, you used too much scallion in your cooking, masking the fish’s flavor. Please be more careful.”

The note came back the next day, marked in red ink with three words: “I’ll remember.”

Below that was another line in tiny writing: “Was the porridge on the stove at dawn yours? See the recipe I left beneath the bowl for how to control the heat.”

Her cat climbed over the wall every day. He said it was improper, yet the cat bed on his side of the wall was even thicker than hers.

When she got soaked in the rain, her father called out for her to drink something hot. Wen Xu was already at the door with ginger soup, divided into three servings and labeled with the times to drink them.

Bai Zhiyan feared neither heaven nor earth in this life. She only feared Master Wen saying, “That would be improper.”

Wen Xu stood straight and bowed deeply. “Lord Bai, I have a request. It would be improper.”

“What is it?”

“I wish to marry your daughter.”

Bai Han remained perched on the wall. “Wen Xu, I thought of you as a brother.”

Wen Xu added, “I’ll teach Lord Bai’s classics course next term.”

Bai Han climbed down from the wall. “My good son-in-law!”

Theme: A gentleman is most cautious when alone, except when he is alone with her.

The blurb was saved as a screenshot on August 26, 2026.

Theme: In this life, know what to do, and what not to do.