My Scalpel Can Save Lives, or Take Them

(Everyday life) (Sweet romance) (One heroine) (Not a saint) (Slow burn, major conflicts after the first hundred chapters)

Yao Ping'an, a resident doctor, earns the highest score in his assessment and is offered a position at a top-tier hospital. But he unknowingly takes the spot meant for Director Xiao Ka's nephew, and is relentlessly targeted as a result.

Night shifts in the emergency department, back-to-back surgeries, and difficult patients become a constant part of his life.

Finally, after three surgeries in a row and twelve hours on his feet, he collapses unconscious on the operating table.

On the brink of death, he binds himself to a System:

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Surgery successful. You saved the patient 25 years of life, and gained 25 years of life yourself.]

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Surgery successful. You gained 2 physique points.]

[Ding! Congratulations, Host. Surgery successful. You received one scratch-off lottery ticket.]

[Ding! ...]

And so, he cures one baffling illness after another,

growing from a resident doctor into a master physician of the nation.

While everyone else is still worried about AIDS, he's already researching how to regrow severed limbs.

While everyone else is still studying how to perform heart transplants, he's already researching how to extend the lifespan of ordinary people.