Summary
For six years, Jiang Yuan has played the fool to survive her father’s household. When her elder sister sends her to a dying nobleman’s room, floating reader comments reveal the trap: she is about to be framed for his murder. Armed with a hidden antidote and scraps of modern knowledge, she saves Xie Ling—and finds herself staying in his courtyard. Her new patron is handsome, courteous, and still being poisoned. Keeping her meal ticket alive should be simple enough. But as she changes his fate, her carefully maintained disguise begins to unravel, and the people who destroyed her mother have yet to pay.