She is a palliative care physician at a top private hospital. Wherever her fingertips touch, she brings the dying their last warmth. She is also “Asura,” a name that strikes terror into the underworld. With each turn of her scalpel, she delivers judgment that criminals cannot escape.
Su Qingyuan is a contradiction, one in whom the greatest kindness and the darkest evil are fused. By day, she hums lullabies to critically ill children in their hospital rooms and pays their exorbitant medical bills out of her own pocket. By night, in a basement, she uses precise surgical techniques to make abusers “experience” ten times the pain of their victims.
“I save those who want to live and kill those who deserve to die.” This is no split personality, but the rule of survival she has lived by all her life. After seeing the blood of too many innocents, she understands that mercy for demons is betrayal of the good. When the daughter of her enemy, whom she adopted, says “Mama” for the first time; when her first love, a man devoted to upholding the law, points a gun at her chest; when pure evil mocks her as “nothing but a butcher hiding behind a veil of decency,” can she keep walking the blade's edge between good and evil with the same resolve?
This is a long epic of redemption and judgment, and the lonely journey of a woman who uses the cruelest means to protect the last glimmer of light. She is a saint and an asura, a redeemer and a prisoner bearing eternal sin.
