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Bai Tangli is a celebrated young physician from Chang'an, beautiful and fair-skinned, with superb medical skills. When the empress summons her to the palace to treat the Seventh Prince, she offers a generous fee, so Bai Tangli happily sets out with her little medicine chest.
But then!
She sees a scene she will never forget!
By the flickering candlelight, he wears a mask with blue-green skin and fangs. His cold, shadowed gaze sweeps over her face, carrying a hint of a knowing smile.
So terrified that she even forgets to take her medicine chest, she hurries away. She can't stay in Chang'an anymore. Gritting her teeth, she moves her clinic to Jiangnan, where she meets an exceptionally talented young man.
He is not yet twenty, but his eyes and brows hold a composure and elegance beyond his years. He can recite poetry and prose at the drop of a hat, and is skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. He is the very image of a dashing swordsman...
Bai Tangli falls for him.
She wants to marry him.
She slips an aphrodisiac into his wine and decides to sleep with him first.
When he wakes, the young man gazes at her tenderly. "A Li, I'll take responsibility for you. I'll come to ask for your hand tomorrow."
Bai Tangli happily counts the betrothal gifts, then pauses when her eyes fall on one item.
It's the medicine chest she left behind in the imperial palace.
*
The Seventh Prince, Zhou Xuanjiu, is exceptionally handsome and gifted in both letters and arms.
No one knows that another personality lies beneath his blue-green, fanged mask. Whenever night falls, his other self awakens.
That day, he met her as she came bouncing in to treat him. The instant their eyes met, he briefly regained control.
He fell in love with the young woman.
But it seemed he'd frightened her off...
Then he would pursue her.
Zhou Xuanjiu followed her from Chang'an to Jiangnan. At daytime banquets, he was composed and eloquent, the very picture of a refined young nobleman. But as soon as night fell, wild thoughts kept surfacing in his mind.
Have her.
Possess her.
Under his carefully laid plans, she soon fell in love with him. He knowingly drank the aphrodisiac she'd prepared herself, and they spent a day of red candles and unrestrained passion.
*
On their wedding night,
Bai Tangli was in tears as he cornered her at the edge of the bed. "Why is it you? Sob, sob! Where's my Ye Qi? I won't marry you, I won't!"
Zhou Xuanjiu seized her slender, snow-white wrists and held them above her head, his other hand tightening around her waist. He curled his lips in amusement, his dangerous, captivating eyes tilting upward. "You already slept with me. You think you can just say you won't marry me?"
*
Bai Tangli: The crabapple blooms before the rain; the pear blossoms are snow. Half the spring has already passed.
Zhou Xuanjiu: I am Zhou Xuanjiu, and I would rather be myself.
#If you're sick, go see a doctor!
#You have to take responsibility for me!
#Two husbands?
#Would you want that kind of luck?
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Blurb dated October 19, 2024
Theme: Medicine can cure illness, and love can heal the heart.
