A Divine Healer Hidden in Jail

The magistrate of Ping'an County has a daughter who needs a doctor. Ye Changqing refuses to treat her and says in public that she is pregnant and unmarried, and for that he is sentenced to death. In prison he shares a cell with another prisoner, who is the emperor Xiao Qian travelling in disguise to find a cure. At the execution ground the empress steps in and stops it. Xiao Qian asks him to come to the capital and take a post, and Ye Changqing turns it down and goes travelling instead. On the road he works out who poisoned the prince's wife, deals with an epidemic in a border town by testing the treatment on himself, and uncovers a network of spies. The crown prince of Da Liao fakes his own death as part of a plot, and Ye Changqing exposes it. The emperor gives him the title of imperial physician of the realm. He leaves a letter behind and goes back to treating ordinary people.