After transmigrating into the body of Su Ling, a male brothel attendant from the Yixiang Courtyard, he finds himself with an older sister, Su Wan'er, whose beauty could topple kingdoms.
He is lucky enough to obtain a mysterious talisman. It can amplify the effects of medicine, absorb medicinal power to improve his natural aptitude, and even show how far that aptitude has progressed.
But because he looks like the deceased first love of Chu Xiaoxiao, the Princess of Jiangling Commandery, someone uses his sister as leverage to force him into servitude at the Xu residence, where he must secretly seduce Chu Xiaoxiao, the Fourth Madam who married into the family.
To absorb more medicinal power, improve his aptitude, and cultivate faster, Su Ling willingly serves as a test subject for a young genius physician. He also receives help from Qing Wu, a mysterious woman from the pleasure quarter, and Qin Mengli, a young lady from a prominent family who took one look at him and decided he was her older brother.
Then one day, when Chu Xiaoxiao is in danger, Su Ling has no choice but to use his own body to neutralize her poison.
Su Ling: Madam, you’ve been married into the Xu family for six months, and you’re still untouched?
Chu Xiaoxiao: Su Ling, don’t think that just because you’ve won me over now, I’ll accept you. I’ll consider you only after you take first place at the Martial Academy and pass the martial imperial examination to become its top graduate!
Su Ling: Just a top graduate? Watch me sweep across the martial world of the entire Western Chu Dynasty!
