Jun Zhenzhen might have been recently orphaned, but it didn’t dampen her arrogance one bit. She even snubbed her maternal family who took her in, seeing them as merely a stopover as she gained a foothold in Yangcheng. Her final destination, obviously, was with the scholarly and aristocratic Ning Family. More specifically, as the wife of the first son and pride of the Ning Family. After all, their grandfathers had arranged their marriage long ago.... more>>

But the engagement was denied! The family refused to meet with her, refused to accept the validity of a marriage arranged by elders long dead, refused to accept such an unruly, uncouth girl into their family.

She’ll show them.

Sincerity is everything, so she took a room in a nearby inn and strung up a length of white silk. Of course, she figured that once they saw how far she was willing to go, they would need to open their doors to her. Too clever!

Only, once her eyes fluttered closed… it was another girl who opened them again.

The recently dead Princess Jiuling, who was hacked to death during her attempted assassination of the King, has been granted another attempt at life and revenge.

But first, she has to get this petty Ning family and this nonsense arranged marriage out of the way.

Child’s play. <<less

The abandoned wife, Gu Shiba-niang, took her own life in front of that newlywed couple. Yet, instead of dying, she woke up ten years earlier — her family was still alive, she had not yet been forced to live under someone else’s roof, and her fate was right at a turning point. Can she rewrite her own destiny?... more>>

Through the three structures, this story tells how she uses her pharmaceutical skills to rewrite her fate and protect her family.

The novel blends elements of rebirth-and-revenge with traditional medical culture, with the main plot involving pharmacy management, power struggles, and other events, portraying the journey of a woman who grows from a herb-gathering girl into the head of a prestigious medical family. <<less