You Were Hired as a Resident, So Why Are You Treating the Department Like a Slaughterhouse?

[Lighthearted + wacky + medical + no romance]

Jiang Chen, a medical undergrad, is bound to the Life-and-Death Judge System. To stay alive, he has to perform high-risk surgeries on a regular basis.

But who would let a freshly graduated undergrad anywhere near an operating table?

Just as Jiang Chen was preparing to sneak into the morgue and practice on cadavers, he discovered a bug in the System: as long as the patient’s chance of dying was high enough, even performing a coronary bypass on a pig counted as a success!

So, to stay alive, Jiang Chen snuck into the hospital’s experimental animal center.

He could be the first to perform a pig-heart transplant, practicing nerve sutures on pig’s trotters so quickly his hands blurred.

He could also be a deranged mad scientist, removing brainstem tumors from monkeys and astonishing a crowd of leading researchers.

At first, Jiang Chen just wanted to survive. He never expected the butchering skills he’d honed on animals to catch the department head’s eye. Astounded, the head promoted him straight to the operating table!

Department head: “This kid cuts meat more steadily than I cut tofu. He’s a natural!”

Colleague: “The way he looks at me, it’s like I’m not a coworker but a research subject, and he’s figuring out where to make the first cut...”

Patient: “Doctor, please stop looking at my tumor like it’s making your mouth water. You’re scaring me!”