Grandmaster of Chinese Medicine

Jing Xi, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, had just graduated when she suddenly found herself in ancient times.

Here, she had not only lost her medical license, but had become practically illiterate!

With no other choice, she set up a ramshackle stall, advertising it as: Medical treatment with a complimentary fortune reading.

When Zhao Yu accidentally injured his leg and became a cripple, he only meant to find someone to run errands for him. But the stall owner turned out to be quite responsible. She treated his injury, then insisted on giving him a fortune reading as well.

Jing Xi: Your face says you’re destined for wealth and greatness. How did you manage to get yourself into this state?

Zhao Yu: ...You’re a doctor. Why are you so determined to read fortunes?

Jing Xi sighed. To be honest, fortune-telling is a hard way to make a living these days, so I had no choice but to learn traditional Chinese medicine.

Zhao Yu: ...

Later, Jing Xi recalled how she and Zhao Yu had met:

The first time she saw him, he was a cold and aloof noble fallen on hard times.

The second time, he was a cold and aloof prince of immense wealth.

The third time, he had become a cold and aloof emperor of great prestige!

Jing Xi: ...He really was destined for wealth and greatness.

Still, she had done pretty well for herself too. She became the empress.

A traditional Chinese medicine doctor with no sense of pain x a poker-faced prince

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Yuhua Nian was a merchant’s daughter who married into the century-old Yu family as the eldest son’s principal wife. After three years, they still had no children.

During that time, her husband took several concubines, and even had a habit of beating the women in his household when drunk. Her mother-in-law was also a notorious shrew who treated her daughter-in-law harshly.

Despite all that, Yuhua Nian kept the entire household running smoothly. She not only saved the family from financial ruin, but continued to care for her husband and obey her mother-in-law.

She was the model daughter-in-law.

Even so, in the fourth year of their marriage, her husband listened to his concubine’s slander and divorced her.

Everyone thought Yuhua Nian was doomed to a miserable life. But before long, Yu Lie, the eldest son of the Yu family’s main branch and the chief minister of the court, made a grand display of bringing a hundred gifts to ask for her hand in marriage and make her the mistress of his household.

People suspected that the chief minister had been coerced. How could a woman who had already been married win his favor? Surely her situation would only become more difficult.

But one day, someone spotted the chief minister and Yuhua Nian out together.

It was winter, and snow suddenly began to fall. Right there in the street, the chief minister took off his cloak and held it over her like an umbrella, shielding Yuhua Nian from the howling wind and swirling snow the entire way.

By the end, snow covered the chief minister’s brows and hair, while Yuhua Nian’s coiffure remained untouched, without a speck of dust on her.

After that, the rumors died away on their own.

*

Yu Lie never forgot the first time he saw Yuhua Nian.

The room was full of people, but she, the principal wife, stood behind her mother-in-law like a maid, so obedient she seemed almost like a puppet.

Yu Lie had no interest in meddling in other people’s business.

But when no one was looking, he saw her pluck a bug off a leaf in the garden and toss it straight down the collar of his third aunt.

Theme: A healer’s benevolence, compassion, and integrity