Gu Yunjiao, the eldest daughter of a family of renowned physicians, was reborn with a medicine shop and became a village girl widowed on her wedding night.
Her father had vanished, her mother was a crybaby, her in-laws treated her like a bringer of bad luck, and a lecherous brute nearby watched her with ill intent.
Life wasn’t easy.
Luckily, her mother-in-law was fierce, her younger siblings were dependable, and her family stood firmly by her.
Her mother-in-law made a pact with her: if she observed three years of widowhood, she would then be free to go.
Three years later, she was a famous miracle doctor and medicine queen, and rolling in money.
She packed her things, ready to set off for freedom, but the adults in the family wept and the children cried out. A devastatingly handsome man grabbed her and said, “You’re not allowed to leave! You’ve seen me naked, so you have to take responsibility for me.”
Gu Yunjiao counted on her fingers. “I’ve seen at least eighty men, if not a hundred, while treating patients.”
He covered her mouth with his. “They were patients. I’m the only one who’s a man.”
Later, a rumor spread through the capital that the young, handsome chief councilor was henpecked.
Who started it? Why, the little three-year-old at the chief councilor’s own home, of course.
