[Tortured Love + Reunion After Years Apart + Tension and Push-and-Pull]
Shen Huailing returns to Shanghai to stop the Anti-Traditional Chinese Medicine Act from being passed.
She regards The Great Physician’s Sincerity as the faith of her life. To save it, she is willing to bow her head, break her back, and stop at nothing.
Jiang Mingchen returns from France to spread Western medicine far and wide and bring its benefits to the people.
He regards the Hippocratic Oath as his life’s guiding principle. He loathes traditional Chinese medicine to the core and is determined to restore science to medicine.
They clash and argue, fighting until they are both bloodied.
Yet he still falls in love with Shen Huailing.
So, Jiang Er, will you stand with me?
We have to fight this cruel, devouring age, don’t we?
Three couples
① Shen Huailing × Jiang Mingchen: childhood friends, reunited after years apart, love and hate, a dog-training romance
Shen Huailing × He Zhixing: quiet devotion, love at first sight
② Chu Yibin × Lin Yuanrou: revolutionary lovers, a deeply tortured romance
③ Liang Zaibing × Qin Zixian: espionage intrigue, age gap, teacher-student romance, a deeply tortured romance