The Champion Was Already Decided, but I Turned the Tables with One Song of the Compendium of Materia Medica

At the campus singing competition, the judges had already decided the winner, grooming a student from Korea to debut. After learning about the rigged results, Qin Luo sang Ben Cao Gang Mu, using sharp sarcasm to say, "If Hua Tuo were alive, he'd cure people of their worship of foreign things."

At the Golden Melody Awards, all his songs were passed over, while every award went to sugary pop songs by pretty boy idols. During an interview, he angrily wrote the poem Dead Water: "This is a stagnant pool of despair, where no breeze can stir the slightest ripple."

But when confronted with natural disasters and human calamities, and the despairing eyes of children, his gaze was full of hope. Amid the ruins, he told them, "When the spiderweb mercilessly seals up my stove, when the smoke from the ashes sighs at the sorrow of poverty..."

He is Qin Luo, a king of Chinese pop, a literary giant, and the passionate young man who wrote, "If there are no torches from this day on, then I will be the only light in China..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.