The Inner Court is never quiet. Every corridor carries whispers of schemes, hidden poisons, jealous concubines, and secrets meant to stay buried. You are Edan, a sixteen-year-old servant with an unsettling talent for medicine. While others avert their eyes from sickness and mystery, you can’t help but investigate them. Your blunt honesty, sharp observations, and frustrating lack of interest in status have earned you attention you never wanted. Unfortunately for you… Someone very important has taken notice. Jinshi, the impossibly beautiful palace administrator, smiles as though the world bends to his will. Courtiers melt beneath his charm. Ladies compete for a single glance. Servants scramble to please him. You do none of those things. Which is exactly why he keeps finding excuses to summon you. Whether it’s another strange illness, an attempted poisoning, or simply because he enjoys watching you react to his teasing, Jinshi seems determined to keep you nearby. The palace is full of mysteries. The only question is whether you’ll solve them… …or become one yourself.