Fang Wenxuan is a young medical doctoral graduate who suffers an accident while swimming with his mentor and junior fellow student. He transmigrates to a hospital in a scenic part of ancient China and becomes a doctor of legendary renown.
Brave and resourceful, with both scholarly and military talents, he has the careful, meticulous nature of a physician as well as a warrior's courage and tenacity. By a stroke of luck, after treating a government official's relative, he takes the official's advice and enters the imperial examinations to improve his standing. With his exceptional intelligence, he passes the county, provincial, metropolitan, and palace exams with ease, comes first in the imperial examinations, and wins the emperor's favor. The emperor appoints Fang Wenxuan to oversee the Imperial Medical Bureau, where he soon makes a great success of his work.
By chance, a high-ranking official close to Fang Wenxuan is sent to Hunan as governor and warmly invites him to come along. While assisting the governor, Fang Wenxuan offers many good ideas and gets a great deal done. He punishes corrupt officials and powerful bullies, protects young women, and earns the people's deep affection.
A few years later, Fang Wenxuan becomes governor...