Your Highness, the Princess Has Poisoned Someone Again

That year, apricot blossoms fell in a soft spring rain. Beneath an apricot tree, two youths stood among the flowers, looking like a perfect pair.

She first met him beneath that tree. Though it was not exactly their first meeting, since she was blind and could not see anyone.

"Are you Prince Chen, Ji Fan? I'm Jiang Guantong of Beiqing. From now on, I'll have to trouble you to look after me."

Even much later, Ji Fan still remembered the day they met. As she spoke, her eyes curved into a smile, like the delicate pink apricot blossoms above them, impossible to forget. But that day, Guantong had told Ji Fan many other things too, such as why her childhood nickname was Duyi.

"Princess, you're quite the social butterfly."

Jiang Guantong smiled brightly, turned her eyes toward the sound of his voice, and replied,

"Of course! I'm blind, so I can't see anything. I'm in a foreign land, dependent on others. I suppose saying things like that is called flattery."

Only later did Ji Fan learn that this seemingly silly, ever-smiling girl was peerless in both medicine and the art of poison...