Qi Xia: That pink-haired fox of a senior brother of mine has eight hundred schemes up his sleeve every day. He's indulgent and gentle with me on the surface, but he clearly keeps some secret plot hidden away. So he must be a black-hearted schemer in disguise!
Amazing! Let's go destroy the world together!
Jiaoqiu: Is there perhaps still a chance to save my junior sister?
*
The Alchemy Commission of the Yaoqing Xianzhou has two medical geniuses. The first is Jiaoqiu, who likes experimenting with medicinal dishes to feed people. The newcomer, Qi Xia, is good at treating people like ingredients and tossing them into a pot.
The two disciples from the same school can't stand each other. Whenever they disagree, a chill wind seems to blow through the Commission.
Jiaoqiu in Qi Xia's eyes: The pinker his hair, the crueler his schemes. The Alchemy Commission's secret black-hearted schemer, and an accomplice in causing her amnesia and grave injuries!
Qi Xia in Jiaoqiu's eyes: A conspiracy theorist, prickly all over, and always saying something infuriating, but still someone he can't help falling for.
"My senior brother narrows his eyes and traps people with just a few words. What kind of good fox could he be?"
"Even our General Feixiao, despite her high position, gets attacked by her own guards every day and never takes anything seriously. What kind of formidable fox could she be?"
"That Moze next door is so taciturn he treats silence as golden, and such a neat freak that he can't stand a single fallen leaf on his roof. What kind of good guard could he be?"
"The Six Charioteers keep brushing me off all the time, and they can't even act convincingly. What kind of good Xianzhou is this?"
Qi Xia: There's definitely something seriously wrong with the Yaoqing!
But the truth soon to be revealed is that Feixiao is strict with herself, Moze always keeps his word, and the Six Charioteers are orderly and disciplined...
Qi Xia: That can't be right.
Why does the Yaoqing Xianzhou, which should be black, look redder and redder the more I look at it?
*
From the start, Jiaoqiu is faced with this headache-inducing conspiracy theorist. As he watches Qi Xia get into trouble every single day, he acts unmoved on the surface, but wonders whether he should come clean to her...
If he tells her certain things, she'll leave him. But if he doesn't, she'll stay on her guard around him.
When will this impossible dilemma, enough to make anyone wish their Mara-Struck state would come early, finally end?
[The synopsis was saved to email on 2024-12-24.]
[Reading Guide]
1. About Jiaoqiu: White on the outside, black at heart.
Note 1: This is not a redemption story. I don't like writing redemption romances between people of unequal status.
Note 2: Jiaoqiu will not become Mara-Struck. The synopsis only uses it to convey his conflicted feelings.
2. Some traditional Chinese medicine concepts appear, but this is not professional research, so please don't scrutinize them too closely.
3. I hope to avoid writing the characters out of character. If they turn out completely wrong, well, I'll worry about that after I finish writing.
Theme: Gentle people deserve to be treated gently by time
