Known as the “best surgeon in cardiac surgery,” Fu Yunshen is the youngest and coldest chief physician at Anzhen Hospital. His skills are superb, but he lacks people skills and believes the scalpel is the only truth.
Lin Wei is a newly transferred resident physician in the cardiac surgery department, carrying a secret. She has an almost innate gift for empathy and can always sense the fears and needs that patients and their families leave unspoken.
During their first collaboration, she writes beside his flawless surgical plan in red ink: “The patient’s daughter has her college entrance exams. Recommend delaying the postoperative visit by half an hour.”
Fu Yunshen’s note reads: “Unnecessary emotional strain. It disrupts the postoperative recovery process.”
He sees her as a rule-breaking, overly emotional nuisance, while she insists, “Medical skill treats the illness; compassion heals the heart.”
In one race against death after another, amid the high-stakes precision of heart valve surgery, aortic dissection, and congenital heart disease, their diametrically opposed beliefs clash fiercely. Yet at the edge of life and death, they are forced to become the comrades who understand each other best.
As Lin Wei’s closely guarded secret and Fu Yunshen’s closed-off past gradually come to light, can they find the true meaning of love and life among cold surgical instruments and warm heartbeats? This is not only a journey honing their medical skills, but also a story of learning to mend hearts and redeem themselves.
The story and character relationships from front to back in each chapter are very clear