A proud, frail male powerbroker × a scheming woman with hyperthymesia who hides her true nature
Ji Yang's doctor always said that if angels' eyes existed in this world, hers would be them.
She had hyperthymesia and could never forget anything she saw. Eventually, the sheer volume of memories overwhelmed her brain.
When she opened her eyes again, she had transmigrated as the illegitimate daughter of the Imperial Exorcist Physician's family.
An imperial decree came crashing down: she was to follow her father into exile in an epidemic-stricken region.
Oh... At least I read a lot in my previous life.
Just wait. Once I recreate things like flintlock guns, won't I be able to change the world?
Then she met that powerful official:
Chu Muqing was haughty and arrogant. At their first meeting, he sneered from behind his sedan curtain. “Witchcraft? Don't go cursing me to death first, official that I am.”
“Young master, hold on a minute. Doesn't it look like the imperial physician by your side has been drugging you?”
Chu Muqing raised an eyebrow and smiled meaningfully. “I know. So, do you dare treat me?”
Ji Yang: ...Are you baiting me into a trap?
He knew the medicine was poisoned, yet drank it every day, using himself as bait to lure out all the monsters lurking around him.
And she happened to be the one who discovered the hook.
From then on, she became his “exorcist physician,” and the most disobedient piece on his chessboard.
“We both know the current emperor is a tyrant, so...”
Ji Yang put on her exorcist mask.
She danced the exorcist's dance, invoked the spirits, and drove out ghosts and plague.
She helped him treat the epidemic, and he found her protection.
Until the tyrant grew wary of them, putting her life in danger.
Bang.
Behind him, Ji Yang hoisted a flintlock and aimed it at the tyrant.
The heavens are dead...
“Will you be my empress?”
She turned the barrel away. No one knew that a flintlock had to be loaded after every shot.
There were no bullets in her magazine.
“No, I don't want this kind of ending!”
I want a world where no one has to live on their knees.
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