To avenge her father, Juliet Shaw disguises herself as a man, Julian Shea, and joins the Imperial Medical Academy. She becomes the personal physician to the Empress Dowager who killed her father, secretly planting a Symbiotic Curse. Misunderstood as an enemy by Emperor Kaelan Rourke, the Empress Dowager’s sworn rival, he repeatedly tries to assassinate the "male" physician. Locked in a battle of wits, the tyrant emperor unexpectedly finds himself drawn to Julian. When her true identity is finall
