Lighthearted everyday life / Hilarious contrasts / Protecting animals with positive energy / Double identity
Bright, clear-headed, tough heroine × Gentle, reserved, scheming hero
1.
Xu Nanjia, an emergency room nurse, had just finished a night shift when she died heroically saving a stray cat crossing the road.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become the third young lady of the ancient Ji family: Ji Yuntang.
The original owner was a charming, radiant heiress. Her only "great accomplishment" was confessing to Xie Lanzhou, the moon-cool physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau, fourteen times in public, and being rejected fourteen times.
Xu Nanjia: ...Thanks for asking, but I refuse to take on this mortifying script.
The Merit System she was bound to from the start was cold and merciless: [Earn one hundred thousand merits by saving animals, and you may return home.]
Looking at the mess the original owner had left behind, then at the stray cats and dogs on the ancient streets, she rolled up her sleeves.
After five years in the emergency room, what kind of scene hadn't she seen? Saving cats and dogs was definitely easier than working the night shift.
2.
From then on, the third young lady of the Ji family seemed to have changed completely. She stopped chasing after men and started scavenging for junk all over town instead.
Lame dogs, cats covered in sores, old oxen waiting to be slaughtered: she brought them all home.
People laughed and called her crazy, but she kept her head down, rescuing animals and earning merits.
Then she met Xie Lanzhou.
The man whose sleeve the original owner had never even managed to touch, despite giving him everything, was unexpectedly covering for her without a word.
When she couldn't think of an excuse to go out, he arranged for her to "sort medicinal herbs."
Sometimes she let slip a technical term only people from the modern era would know. His hand would pause as he ground the herbs, and he would look up at her, but ask nothing before lowering his eyes again.
He was gentle and restrained, accepting all her oddities and playing along flawlessly.
But his gaze held unfathomable indulgence and restraint.
Why would an ancient physician understand every one of her transgressions?
From their very first meeting, this man had seemed far too perfect, far too exactly right.
Who was he, really? An ordinary ancient physician? Or...
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