A Physician's Path Through the Bureaucracy

“A physician must have a heart of benevolence and compassion for all under heaven.”

The way of medicine is the way of benevolence, and practicing medicine is a means of cultivating the heart. A physician must place righteousness first, regard profit lightly, and value life above all. Treating the elimination of disease, the relief of suffering, and the preservation of health as their responsibility, such a path is the true righteous way of the human world.

I was originally a Daoist physician, but I accidentally entered the mortal world of officialdom. I can influence life, aging, illness, and death, yet I cannot shake the innate greed in people's hearts.

Qin Shaodong was kidnapped as a child and ended up wandering into a Taoist temple, where he met a reclusive Daoist physician and learned extraordinary healing skills. From the age of ten, he traveled through rural villages and wilderness, treating the sick, saving lives, aiding the poor, and helping those in hardship.

After graduating from university, he should have had a bright future and remained at a major hospital. Instead, he was framed and forced out to work in a rural town, and his girlfriend's family was implicated as well, forcing the woman he loved to marry someone else. He had never intended to pursue an official career, but circumstances left him no choice, and so he embarked on his journey to break through in the way of medicine…

Through a fortuitous coincidence, he set foot on the path of cultivation and became a true miracle doctor. A century later, having perfected the Great Dao, he ascended and departed from the mortal world.