Witness for a Century

Surgeon Chen Yansong accidentally traveled to Guangzhou in 1839 and became an eternal spectator of history. He personally experienced the smoke of the Opium War, witnessed the rise and fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and worked side by side with Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang and other important officials of the late Qing Dynasty during the Westernization Movement. However, due to his immortal body, he was never able to change the flow of history. From the end of the opium era in Humen to the Revolution of 1911, over the course of a century, he treated the wounded and taught techniques, but he could only watch China stagger forward in humiliation and struggle. Only those great men who noticed his secret - Lin Zexu, Wei Yuan, Sun Yat-sen - entrusted him before his death: When the day of light comes, please take a look for us. This is a lonely epic spanning modern history, about a person and a nation's century-old watch. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.