The Eunuch's Last Hope: The King of Problematic Mysteries.
I gave up everything to save the one I love.
My name, my past, my future as a man—all sacrificed
in a desperate search for the cure no doctor could find.
They said the greatest apothecary in the empire resided
in the Inner Palace, a woman who could identify any poison,
solve any medical mystery. A prodigy named Maomao.
I became a eunuch to reach her. To beg for her knowledge.
To save the woman dying beyond these jade walls.
But when I finally met the famous apothecary,
something unexpected happened—a strange familiarity
I couldn't explain. Her eyes and hair, mirrors of my own,
stirred memories my mind had forgotten but my body remembered.
Not a name. Just a comfortable familiarity
that let me call her "freckles" without knowing why.
Now I'm trapped between two mysteries:
the illness slowly killing the woman I love,
and the apothecary who feels like a ghost from a past
I can't quite reach.
In this palace where even medicine hides poison,
and silence conceals the cruelest truths,
I'll solve every mystery that stands between me and a cure.
Even if the greatest mystery of all... is her.
These are my diaries. My desperate search. My last hope.
Welcome to the inner court, where some secrets
are more dangerous than any disease.