Hillside Healer

Reborn at twelve, Zhou Yuan stopped her father from going to rescue the Empress Dowager, sparing her family from the doom of enslaved menfolk and her mother's death.She lured the royal guards to Black Wind Cliff to delay them, then slipped to the birthing valley. Using herbs and stream water, she aided the delivery and faked a mountain god miracle.The guards paid hush money. She and her father developed wound salve and beauty cream, making their apothecary renowned across Jiangnan.Five years later, the Zhou family lived in prosperity. On Mid-Autumn Festival, gifts and a reconciliation letter arrived from the Empress Dowager. Old grudges faded. Zhou Yuan defied fate and safeguarded her family.