Gifted apothecary Celeste perishes at the stake after her envious adopted brother steals her revolutionary antiseptic remedy, poisons imperial patients, and frames her as an evil sorceress with her parents' blessing. Miraculously, Celeste reopens her eyes back when she was eighteen, serving as her brother's marginalized study assistant at the royal academy. Refusing to repeat her gruesome fate, she seizes her second chance to reclaim her scientific breakthroughs.
Celeste dismantles academy prejudice by saving critically wounded peers and solving medical pathologies that baffle veteran professors, earning a coveted scholarship through undeniable genius. When her panicked family attempts to brand her an unholy witch once more, she uses clinical mastery to turn powerful clerics into her allies. With royal medical trials approaching, Celeste risks everything to expose her brother's lethal fraud before his incompetence claims innocent lives.
