Oda Natsumi

In an era when women were expected to obey their husbands and households, becoming 'good wives and wise mothers' as the pinnacle of virtue... Hinako, who returned from years abroad and graduated from a girls' school, faced pressure from her mother to accept a 'suitable' arranged marriage to a man thirty years her senior. Struggling with the gap between her own values and societal norms, she found hope in her great-aunt’s proposal: employment as a court lady in the imperial palace. After passing the rigorous exam and breaking free from her mother’s control, Hinako began her new life at the palace. But...?

A novice female doctor brimming with curiosity and a young inspector team up to solve the medical mysteries inside the Chinese imperial palace. 19 year old novice doctor, Ri Suishu (Li Cui Zhu) happens upon the scene of the Censorate's\* investigation of her town's pharmacy. As the owner of the pharmacy is about to be arrested on suspicion of supplying drugs that caused the empress to miscarry, Suishu saves him with her medical knowledge. A few days later, she suddenly receives an imperial order to enter into the inner palace. There, she meets her preceptor, Shika (Zi Xia), and the young inspector named Yuushou (Xi Xiao). From there, one by one Suishu solves the illness plaguing the emperor's consorts. \*Censorate: an organ of government first established during the Qin dynasty of China.