The Apothecary Diaries

薬屋のひとりごと

Maomao grew up mixing medicines in a pleasure district until she was kidnapped and sold into the emperor's rear palace as a lowly servant. When newborn imperial children and their mothers start falling ill, she quietly traces the cause to a poison and solves it, meaning to stay anonymous through her two years of indenture. The fix draws the eye of Jinshi, a strikingly handsome eunuch who starts feeding her court mysteries to unravel in exchange for rare medicines.