[Please add the upcoming novels "The Empress Comes from a Research Institute" and "What Does the Graceful One Seek?" to your collection!]
Synopsis:
The Jing family of Chang'an has produced generations of renowned physicians, but a single case brings the family down.
Jing Ruyun goes from a noble young lady to the lowest-ranking medical maid.
On her first day at her new post, assassins attack her carriage. Her assailant is extremely difficult to deal with, using ruthless methods and relentlessly pursuing her.
There is one challenge after another inside the Imperial Medical Bureau, and trouble never ends outside it.
With wolves ahead and tigers behind, her most urgent task is to find a powerful protector who can keep her safe.
Du Zhuo, the Prince of Duan's heir, is as gentle and refined as jade, with a scholar's air. He currently serves as Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, where his impartial justice has earned him widespread acclaim.
By family background and character, he's the perfect choice for a protector.
At last, Jing Ruyun finds a protector she can count on, only to catch him with his mask off:
The refined gentleman Du Zhuo is actually the ruthless assassin from before!
Jing Ruyun: Is it too late to run now?
The clear, gentle voice she hears from him every day now sounds dangerous as it brushes her ear.
Du Zhuo asks, though he already knows the answer, "A-Yun, what were you just thinking? Tell this prince."
* One true pairing, mutually devoted, happy ending
* Little bonus scenes may appear at random in the author's notes
++ Upcoming novel: "The Empress Comes from a Research Institute"
Researcher Shu Tong dies suddenly and arrives three thousand years in the past.
After spending years rooted in a medical AI center, she transmigrates into the body of a concubine in the imperial harem.
-- Talk about an unexpected career change.
When she meets the Empress, her sworn enemy offers Shu Tong a cup of tea.
A voice sounds in her ear: [System: Component analysis: croton]
Shu Tong calmly smiles. If they want to take her on, they'll need better tricks than that.
At a gathering of sisters, someone gives her a hairpin inlaid with pearls and jade.
The System's prompt sounds again: [System: Component analysis: musk]
Shu Tong raises an eyebrow in surprise. With such sisterly affection, she must repay the favor in full.
While recuperating behind closed doors, a palace maid brings her a bowl of nourishing porridge.
The System's prompt sounds: [System: Component analysis: arsenic]
Shu Tong pins the culprit down and demonstrates the proper way to poison someone through hands-on instruction.
Later:
Noble Consort: I nearly died in childbirth back then, and none of the imperial physicians could do anything. Thanks to Sister Shu, both my child and I survived.
Empress Dowager: This child brought me soothing fish maw with flowers. Not even ten imperial kitchens could match it.
Emperor: Reviewing memorials is exhausting, but fortunately, my beloved Consort Shu has a miraculous touch when it comes to massage.
Shu Tong rises steadily through the ranks.
-- An unexpectedly perfect career match.
+ Upcoming novel: "What Does the Graceful One Seek?"
Duanmu Yao was born in a prince's household, yet her family background is lowly.
Because of her beautiful face, she is treated as a pawn to take the blame and suffer in others' place.
She knows it all, but has never accepted her fate.
Her beauty is a source of trouble. But used well, it can also be an opportunity.
Xie Weichi is a powerful minister of the court.
Everyone says he has the power to cover the heavens and is ruthless and cruel. People all avoid him.
Duanmu Yao carefully plots and takes the initiative to throw herself into his arms.
"You've got some nerve."
Xie Weichi looks down on her and grips her by the throat, forcing her to raise her head.
"Do you know what the consequences of this will be?"
Duanmu Yao submits, offering the vulnerable point of her life into his palm of her own accord.
"I'll do as Your Highness commands."
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The first time he meets Duanmu Yao, Xie Weichi already guesses what she's scheming.
Her face hidden behind a thin veil, her wide sleeves fluttering, she dances like a startled swan at the Hundred Flowers Banquet.
Her delicate hand, carrying a crabapple blossom, brushes against his fingertips, near enough to touch, then pulling away.
Xie Weichi flicks away the petals. "All that deliberate posturing, and this is all there is to it."
But only he knows that the petals didn't just land on his fingertips.
They had already fallen into his heart, too.
[Announcement]
[After discussing it with my editor, this novel will be published as a paid novel starting from Chapter 23 on March 20. If you've already read those chapters, please don't buy them again~]
Theme: Part the dark clouds and reveal the bright moon
