From the author of :
The Record of Washing Tassels
The Brilliant Coroner
Cranes Cry Over the Jade Capital
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Soon to be adapted into a drama
Jiang Li grew up in hardship until Earl Guang’an took her in as his adopted daughter, giving her a measure of stability. She was famed for her peerless beauty and mastery of medicine. By thirteen, her name resounded throughout Chang’an, and soon after she was betrothed to Young Prince Jiangling—her future as a noble consort seemingly assured.
But at fifteen, disaster struck.
A plague ravaged Chang’an. On New Year’s Eve, the Imperial Grandson died of an illness. Earl Guang’an, Wei Jie, then serving as Imperial Physician, failed to save him and was cast into prison. Jiang Li never imagined that her truthful testimony would become the decisive evidence sealing his fate.
On the day the Wei clan was executed, Jiang Li’s act of “righteousness over kinship” spared her from implication—and even earned her a marriage decree from the throne.
Yet the families and common folk once saved by Earl Wei cursed her as ungrateful, swearing she would never meet a good end. Their words proved true when she perished in the inferno that consumed the Dengxian Jile Pavilion, a fire that burned for three days and nights.
Five years later, the Dengxian Jile Pavilion was rebuilt. Jiang Li, branded faithless and forgotten, had vanished from memory. At that very moment, the long‑lost daughter of the Xue clan of Hedong—Xue Ling—was found and brought back to Chang’an.
Kidnapped in childhood, Xue Ling had been raised by wandering physicians. Three years earlier, she gained renown across the land for reviving the master of the Liedao Sect after seven days of death.
Now, as strange cases plague Chang’an, Xue Ling wields her art of “returning the dead to life”—to heal the living or to dissect corpses and hunt killers. Beneath her fame and glory lies a vow: blood debts must be repaid in blood.
Three days after returning home, the General’s manor is entangled in a murder case.
Two months later, the Military Governor is exposed and his household exiled.
Half a year later, the Crown Prince’s position faces abolition.
Xue Ling watches Chang’an tremble with fear, only to find herself opposed by none other than Pei Yan—the celebrated paragon of noble families.
Xue Ling, furious: “You were Jiang Li’s mortal enemy. What does that have to do with me, Xue Ling!”
[A wronged physician of noble birth × A virtuous face hiding a ruthless heart]
– Alternate history; heroine with a new face; martial world setting; double‑clean HE
– Suspense + revenge; slow burn; morally gray leads; anti‑piracy
– Author is not a professional; all medical details are drawn from reference materials
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