After Qing Yi finished taking Xuanyuan Jue’s pulse, she suddenly looked up. “What about your internal injuries?” Xuanyuan Jue did not dare answer.
“Why has your pulse suddenly recovered?” She studied him for a moment, then gave a faint smile. “Healed overnight? Your Majesty truly is the Son of Heaven.”
There was hardly any anger on Qing Yi’s face. She simply looked at him calmly. “You said you wouldn’t turn your schemes against me.”
Xuanyuan Jue looked at her. “I never intended to scheme against you.”
Qing Yi fell silent for a moment, picked up her medicine chest, and turned to leave.
It was over.
The day before, the Northern Zhou emperor had been unstoppable, sword in hand, killing people on a stone-paved official road. Now he was completely flustered. Xuanyuan Jue threw off the brocade quilt and leaped out of bed, chasing after her without even stopping to put on his shoes. Qing Yi had barely reached the door when he wrapped an arm around her waist from behind and pulled her firmly against him.
At that moment, Xuanyuan Jue understood better than anyone:
If he let her walk out that door this time, winning her back would be harder than conquering Southern Zhou.
(Novel synopsis) In the Nine Provinces, torn apart by war, Linyue Qing Yi, the White Miao saintess, saves lives with medicine and gu poison, while Xuanyuan Jue, regent of Yong, conquers the land with his iron cavalry. A cure for gu quietly intertwines the paths of two people who had nothing to do with each other. When they reunite four years later, they go from testing each other to standing side by side through life and death. She never believed in love, but through him she gradually learns what it means; burdened by vengeance for his country and his father, he gradually comes to want to protect her smile as well. From the Central Plains to the frontier, from Kunlun to the Western Regions, war, medicine and gu, secret realms, and the rise and fall of dynasties are woven together. In the end, what they want to protect is more than each other: it is the peace of countless homes and a tranquil world.
Theme: A saintess of medicine and gu and a warrior king join forces to bring peace to the Nine Provinces
