The Qiao Ning Village Healing System

Qiao Ning kept her face steady while the boy's fever finally broke. Her hands were the only part of her that still shook after that. She had spent years fixing village wells, shifting bad ground, and treating sick people who had nowhere else to go. That work made her useful, then dangerous, then impossible to ignore. When she is pulled into the queen's private audience, named in front of every watcher, and then learns her own room has been searched in her absence, she sees how fast a healer can become a target. A borrowed seal box, an old brush, and a scarf hidden in a book all point to the same trap. She has learned to survive by being precise. Precision is not enough when people start usin...