I’m Done Being This Imperial Physician

A cross-dressing young physician and an emperor who plays a role

Xu Qingyuan was just an insignificant young physician in the palace.

But she saved a young guard.

The guard was a brave man who would quietly keep her company while she laid out medicinal herbs to dry.

But being an imperial guard was dangerous. Every few days, the young guard would come to Xu Qingyuan covered in blood and ask her to prescribe medicine.

The blood wasn't his. It belonged to the assassins.

In private, Xu Qingyuan complained to him, "Being emperor isn't easy, either."

The guard fell silent.

Then one day, the chief eunuch summoned Xu Qingyuan before the emperor to treat the unconscious tyrant.

Beneath the curtains embroidered with coiling dragons lay a familiar, handsome face.

Xu Qingyuan did her best to keep her fingers from shaking as she nervously wrote a prescription.

Liu Zhen ascended the throne as a young man. After lying low for years, he wiped out the great clans in one fell swoop. Blood flowed for three months outside the Hall of Political Affairs.

Yet one day, while he wandered around in bloodstained clothes to clear his head, he met a bright-eyed young physician whose smile was like the warm winter sun.

Even after his achievements were stolen and he was saddled with heavy work, the young physician kept smiling as if nothing had happened.

"Oh, you're hurt so badly! Does it hurt?"

"Let me treat you!"

"The chief physician says I still need to improve my medical skills. This medicine might take a while to work, but it's gentle and won't hurt much."

Liu Zhen let the nonsensical young physician show off his meager skills in front of him.

He let the young physician mistake him for a guard.

He thought of the young physician as a little songbird, chirping away under the warm sun and saying all sorts of amusing things.

The young physician meant nothing to him.

"Little guard, do you love me?"

The young physician asked him anxiously, over and over.

Every time, Liu Zhen firmly denied it.

How could he possibly fall in love with a man?

But when an assassin attacked, the only thing in Liu Zhen's eyes before he lost consciousness was the young physician.

When he woke, the Imperial Medical Bureau was empty. The young physician had already run away.

So she ran away? Then he would just have to catch her.

She could only stay by his side, forever and ever.

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