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Lin Wan, a young medicine peddler outside Bianjing, took in a bloodied beggar on a rainy night. She spent all her savings to make ginseng soup for him and sewed up his knife-ripped rags. Before leaving, the beggar gave her a dragon-carved jade plaque, saying only, "Use this if you need help." Half a month later, imperial guards surrounded her clinic—the beggar was Emperor Xiao Jing, who had been assassinated during an incognito visit! The imperial edict clearly stated, "Appoint Lin as the Empress." Lin Wan dropped her medicine pot in fright: she’d never even climbed the palace steps, how could she handle the Empress Dowager’s cold stares and the concubines’ tricks? But when the emperor knelt to pick up the shards at her feet, his smile was warmer than the mugwort she dried...
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