Chang’an Medical Clinic

In the west of Chang'an stands a small clinic, run by a young woman in the prime of her youth.

Most of her patients are unusual, and each of their ailments is stranger than the last.

First, an evil ghost comes to claim a soul; then a wooden puppet tricks someone into marriage...

Others might be at a loss, but with one touch from her, she can banish evil, calm the spirit, and cure the sick.

[Anthology; an alternate Tang-inspired setting, with extensive original worldbuilding; the heroine acts entirely according to her likes and dislikes]

[Story Guide]

1. Female ghost (Chapters 1-4)

2. Puppet (Chapters 5-8)

3. Human-skin mask (Chapters 9-12)

4. Infant spirit (Chapters 13-17)

5. Heroine in the martial world (Chapters 18-22)

6. Ghost watcher (Chapters 23-26)

7. Human-faced snake (Chapters 27-31)

8. Epilogue (Chapter 32)

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"Moonlight Shines on Distant Mountains"

The person she tricked back then has come to force her to make good on her promise.

[From the heroine's perspective]

To stay alive, Cao Jieming, a girl from a foreign tribe, has no choice but to team up with a man to treat her illness and cure her poison.

The man is perfect in every way: tall and handsome, a skilled fighter, caring, and hardworking when it comes to treating her poison. There's only one problem: he seems to have fallen for her, and now he's working even harder at treating her poison.

When the three-month treatment ends, an urgent matter at the front forces him to leave first. He promises to come marry her once the war is over.

She gets everything ready, then flees in the middle of the night.

She stays hidden for five years.

Until she runs into him again.

But why has he changed so much?

[From the hero's perspective]

Five years ago, the war temporarily came to a halt.

Gao Zhao had lost his father, and the woman had vanished without a trace.

He searched for the hometown she'd told him about, but after turning the entire city upside down, he discovered that no such person lived there.

Five years later, she has married and had a child, and is entangled with someone else, living a thriving life.

Back then, he had given her his whole heart, and she'd run off without telling him a single truth.

Now she's come to him of her own accord, for the child she had with another man.

But so what?

This time, she won't get away.

[Reading Guide]

1. The hero was once sincere and warm-hearted, but later becomes cold and sinister.

2. The heroine runs away while pregnant. She has her reasons and isn't a jerk.

3. The hero mistakenly believes she married someone else, but is willing to be the other man for love, and even to "study up" for love.

4. A marriage-before-love story five years ago, with mild coercion five years later; 1v1, happy ending.

Theme: Keep moving forward. Don't look back.