From the Countryside to the Big City

[Li Gang will use his own way to break into a prosperous life and reclaim everything that should have been his.]

Li Gang, a poor young man from Qingshan Village, was supposed to spend his whole life rotting in the mud. His father died young, his mother was gravely ill, and his family was so poor they could barely scrape by. Even the marriage that had been arranged for him was publicly called off. Worse still, the village chief and local thugs had their eyes on his family's ancestral home. They forced him to sign it away and clear the land, threatening to leave him with no way to live if he refused.

Just as Li Gang was driven to the brink, he fell off a cliff by accident and obtained the ancestral medical classic, The Spirit Scripture of a Hundred Herbs. From then on, he could identify every herb, diagnose the root of an illness, master acupuncture, and formulate medicines. Even the hidden causes of illnesses and the medicinal properties others couldn't recognize were clear to him at a glance.

One needle saves his mother, one remedy turns his life around, and he face-slaps the people who once trampled on him time and again.

From a village quack to a celebrity in town; from a small pharmacy to a major clinic; from wild mountain produce and herbs to medicinal wine, therapeutic cuisine, and eventually an entire traditional medicine industry, Li Gang steadily makes his way into the bustling city. At the same time, he draws closer to the truth behind the people who killed his father and took his family's opportunity.

Lin Fen, the female doctor at the town clinic who looked down on him at first, also comes to see the grit, sense of responsibility, and ambition in this man's bones as they fight side by side again and again.

The countryside is not the end.