Secret Beneath the Cheongsam

Shen Ruotang was the youngest legend in the pharmacology department—her fingertips could blend a hundred remedies, yet her temperament was like the licorice root she so often handled: gentle, restrained, forever veiled behind a faint, elusive distance. Everyone called her "Little Medicine Immortal," except for Chen Yanzhou. He was the wounded fugitive who crashed into her medicine hut during a pursuit, sharp-tongued and ruthless, fixing his gaze on her like a crossbow locking onto its prey. She tended his wounds; he pressed her against the medicine cabinet and murmured, "That medicinal scent on you... it's more addictive than your remedies." From that moment on, she could never quite remove him from her life.