I Ran Away with the Scumbag’s White Moonlight

Shi Jingxian is a professional Restorer, an agent tasked with entering the collapsed consciousness of deceased individuals to fulfill their unfulfilled wishes and restore their spirits. After completing a high-difficulty mission, he is assigned an S-level task involving Ji Xuanran, a talented pharmacist adopted by the royal family of Country A. Ji Xuanran’s original life ended in betrayal and murder. For five years, he served his husband, Marshal Yuan Xiao, with devotion, only to discover he was merely a substitute. When Yuan Xiao fell ill during a battle against a high-level plant, Ji Xuanran awakened a rare healing ability but lost his potion-making skills in the process. Rather than receiving care, he was abandoned by his family and ultimately drained of his toxin-contaminated blood by Yuan Xiao to facilitate the Marshal’s advancement to the ninth level. The task requires Shi Jingxian to inhabit Ji Xuanran’s body at a critical juncture: five years prior to the original death, during the celebration banquet for Yuan Xiao’s victory.

Upon entering the body, Shi Jingxian immediately alters the course of events. At the banquet, he avoids the public humiliation and physical abuse inflicted upon the original Ji Xuanran by Yuan Xiao’s mother. Instead of submitting to the abuse, he strategically creates a scene that exposes the family’s cruelty without losing his own dignity. He resigns from his position as Yuan Xiao’s exclusive pharmacist, rejecting the exploitative labor that had drained his health. This decision marks the first major shift in the narrative, as the original Ji Xuanran had remained trapped in a cycle of subservience until his death. Shi Jingxian returns to his roots, seeking out his former mentor, the eccentric high-level pharmacist Fendelin, and successfully reclaims his assistant status.

As Shi Jingxian works to rebuild Ji Xuanran’s career, he encounters Lan Luohai, the Crown Prince of the Core Country. In the original timeline, Lan Luohai was the object of Yuan Xiao’s affection, the person who caused the marital breakdown. However, the reality of Lan Luohai is vastly different from Ji Xuanran’s biased memories. Lan Luohai is genuinely respectful of pharmacists and offers Shi Jingxian rare resources and guidance. Shi Jingxian discovers through system supplements that in the original future, Yuan Xiao would eventually betray and kill Lan Luohai after seizing the throne. This revelation forces Shi Jingxian to reassess the political landscape and the true nature of Yuan Xiao’s ambition.

The core conflict intensifies as Shi Jingxian achieves a breakthrough in his alchemical skills, successfully creating a high-level recovery potion. This accomplishment elevates him to the rank of Divine Alchemist, a status that commands respect and independence. Yuan Xiao, realizing he has lost his convenient source of potions and facing the public scrutiny of his family’s behavior, attempts to reclaim Ji Xuanran. However, Shi Jingxian remains unmoved by Yuan Xiao’s manipulative tactics. The story moves toward a confrontation where Ji Xuanran, empowered by his new status and supported by Lan Luohai, begins to dismantle the control Yuan Xiao and his family once held over him, setting the stage for a complete reversal of his tragic fate.