The Marquis's Physician's Daughter: A Wife's Guide to Raising Children

This is a classical fairy tale about a female doctor who transmigrates, finds her footing, and makes a life for herself. It is a love story between a clever heroine and a strong, powerful hero. One couple, one ending. *◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇* Yao Fengge, the legitimate eldest daughter of Yao Yuanzhi, Governor-General of the Two Rivers, is critically ill. For the sake of the family’s interests, the Yao household arranges for Yao Yanyu, her younger half-sister, to enter the Marquis Ding’s residence as a concubine, with the intention of making her his principal wife once the legitimate daughter dies. Yao Yanyu, a modern Western-medicine doctor with a doctorate who has transmigrated, lies low in the Yao household for ten years, keeping her talents hidden. When at last she is married off, she refuses to settle for a secondhand husband and live a miserable life. So she uses her success in treating her legitimate elder sister as leverage, asks to leave the household, and wins her freedom to live a quiet life at a country estate. But after abandoning all her ties and leaving the marquis’s residence with her meager possessions, she still fails to find the quiet life she wanted. Living alone at a country estate, farming and raising chickens, she instead attracts visits from a group of charming young gentlemen, while formidable military officers come calling one after another. From then on, her family values her, her father and brothers protect her, her elder sister cherishes her, and her brother-in-law treats her with affection. Her life blossoms into a dazzling world of splendor, where wealth and power burn bright, and endless intrigue is matched by boundless riches and glory. *◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇*◇* To preserve her dignity, Yao Yanyu has no choice but to fight with all her might. She Fights Heaven, overcoming floods and epidemics. Fights people, earning a place among the powerful at court. Fights the powerful, calmly watching their schemes unfold. Fights the times, navigating shifts in power. Fights fate, and ultimately finds that good deeds are rewarded. Throughout her life, she strives with all her strength, taking every step firmly. She can face Heaven and Earth without shame, and look into her own heart with a clear conscience. In the end, all the fame and fortune in the world cannot compare with a harmonious marriage and filial children. …