Core setting: Su Huairen, a modern emergency doctor, accidentally traveled to the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and was involved in a conspiracy vortex caused by the smallpox epidemic. Relying on his modern medical knowledge, he survived between the imperial hospital and the imperial guards. He tried to use cowpox vaccination to fight the raging smallpox, but unexpectedly came across the struggle for imperial power and palace secrets.
Main story line: Su Huairen wakes up from the corpse pile in the pharmacy and finds that time has been twisted to the fifteenth year of Hongwu. He used the medical records and modern technology in "Yong Lei Jian Fang" to take the risk of inoculating cowpox on the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Xiongying, but was blocked by the imperial hospital and the Jin Dynasty. As the investigation deepened, he uncovered the conspiracy behind the smallpox epidemic-the King of Jin colluded with the Japanese country to spread the variola virus in order to undermine the country.
Key conflicts:
Medical Confrontation: A life-and-death contest between the cowpox method and traditional variolation, a collision between science and ignorance.
Powerful game: Dealing with Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma, King Yan Zhu Di and other forces to solve the conspiracy of the Jin Palace such as poisonous ginseng and Japanese coastal defense plans.
Time and space puzzle: The barcode mutation on the payment slip, the strange echoes of the emergency room floor tiles and the ancient corpse pile, imply that time travel is not accidental.
Highlights:
Hard-core textual research: Integrating traditional Chinese medicine classics such as "Yong Lei Jian Fang" to restore the medical scenes of the Ming Dynasty.
Suspenseful tension: Each chapter uses medical problems to drive the plot, such as vinegar fumigation to prevent epidemics, ice cellar autopsy, and tea-horse virus warfare.
Character arc: Su Huairen went from survival to struggle, forming a complex bond with the eunuch Jing Yuan and the handyman Wang Er.
Theme: Under the strangulation of plague and power, how the benevolence of a modern doctor illuminated the dark era.
