Shaohui Dong

Betrayed by his stepbrother, Nathan Cole suffers public humiliation when he is strung up at the entrance of Juset, his reputation left in ruins. His fiancée, Renee Zabel, immediately calls off their engagement. Worse still, he loses the chance to marry the female Emperor, disappointing his father so deeply that he is cast out of the family. But his father has no idea—the son he abandoned is no longer the same Nathan.

Everyone dismisses Quinton Larkwood as a worthless, live-in son-in-law. Though he works as a delivery driver, he is secretly the revered Holy Healer of Imperial Hall, a master in both medicine and martial arts. All the powerful families respect and fear him as the Holy Healer, but they have no idea who he moonlights as. Years ago, he was gravely injured in a setup and saved by the Norris family.

When Jasper Zabel fails his scholar exam, his brothers' mockery barely registers—he has bigger problems, like the drugged commandery princess of Lostaria he's just rescued. But she vanishes at dawn, and all that remains of their night together is the money she left behind.