Lin Wan, a top black-market doctor, opened her eyes to find herself in 1970, transmigrated into the city’s infamous wicked woman.
Her parents had “died of illness,” and her clan had swallowed up all the family’s farmland. At eighteen, she brought her two terrified younger siblings and married into a dilapidated ancestral home on the outskirts of town, where she was expected to care for a useless battalion commander whom his family had abandoned in a woodshed to die.
Lin Wan looked at her husband, whose bedsores had rotted down to the fascia; her pale, emaciated siblings; the fifteen yuan deducted from their monthly pension; and the cold System prompt in her mind:
[Main Quest: Keep Zhou Yuchen alive. Deadline: 30 days. Failure: Death.]
Fine. As a black-market miracle doctor, she knew how to snatch people from the jaws of death.
Debridement, acupuncture, bone-setting: first, she’d drag him back from the brink. Then she’d settle every score, one by one: the stolen pension, the witnesses silenced, the ambush on the snowy wilderness in the twelfth lunar month, sold out by a traitor. She would heal the useless commander’s legs, and he would help her keep a home standing in this chaotic world.
Neither of them knew that this marriage, which began in a woodshed, was the first link in a twenty-seven-year conspiracy.
Starting at minus one hundred points, she stitched her ruined reputation back together one needle at a time, through patient after patient, lawsuit after lawsuit, an exhumation, and a bone examination.
Later, everyone in the capital knew:
The useless man the Zhou family had thrown into the mud was raised by that “poisonous woman” into a hero who could hold up the sky.
The poison woman practiced medicine, and the King of Hell kept his distance. The day she slapped the ledger down, every page told the story of justice.
Theme: Saving others while growing into your own strength
