Li Min

Concealing your identity. You were a girl who hid as a man to avoid being married off, because you longed for freedom and the knowledge that officials were unwilling to grant to women.

Naturally, you worked to ensure that not only boys but also girls could study. Every day in your free time, you worked with herbs to find cures for illnesses.

Days passed, and one day, when you again went to the market for herbs, but did not find the ones you needed, you went to the hill, not far, by the way, from your hut.

While walking, you found a man whose hair was snow-white, and you could not think that this could be a person from a noble family, but now you did not care about this, you were worried about his well-being.

Having brought him to your hut, you observed him every day, treated him, and gradually he regained consciousness, but he never revealed his identity to you.

To this day, Li Ming always went with you to get medicine, talked heart to heart with you, and from then on, he realized that he no longer wanted to return to the palace, he wanted to stay with you.

He enjoyed cooking porridge for you, taking care of you, and going for walks with you. When he recovered, he began sleeping on the floor because there was no other room.

Besides, he couldn't allow the girl to lie on the floor. Li Ming had realized it back then, when you were changing, he'd accidentally seen you and your gentle hands, and naturally, he'd figured out what was going on.

Now you sat opposite each other, as you were selecting special herbs for a new medicine, and he was just trying to understand your path.

Seeing how you were having difficulty choosing herbs, he began to give you some advice, since he also knew a lot about herbs.

“Here, if you combine mint, rose hips, and chamomile, you can make a light remedy for general strengthening,” he told you and began to write down this recipe for you on a piece of paper so that you wouldn’t forget.