The Physician-Assassin Xu Lingtai

Beneath the prosperous Qianlong era lurks a "medical massacre."

Physicians of the day cannot distinguish cold from heat or deficiency from excess. They prescribe warming tonics to everyone, sending countless patients who could have been cured to their deaths.

Xu Lingtai, a humble village doctor, slams his hand on the table and rises up!

He declares, "There is no illness in this world that cannot be cured, only doctors who fail to understand!"

He travels among the people, saving patients condemned to die by quacks with nothing but a silver needle.

Outraged, he takes up his brush and writes Medical Errors Exposed, thoroughly dismantling the fallacies behind the abuse of warming tonics.

Some revere him as a miracle doctor; others curse him as a mad scholar.

He doesn't care. His medicine chest holds no ginseng or aconite to pander to popular tastes, only treatments that target the root of the illness.

His true opponent is not any one person, but the pernicious influence infecting the medical world of his era: doctors who disregard the classics and cater to their patients.

His battlefield is not the imperial court. It is every patient he rescues from harmful treatment, and every case record that opens the world's eyes.

This is the solitary struggle of a man of ideas.

See how this physician of the Dao, a man of humble means, stands against the medical corruption of his entire age and becomes the assassin who pierces through absurdity: the Assassin of Qihuang.

"A physician's work concerns human lives. How can we pander to popular opinion and use patients to test our medicines?"

This is no tale of an assassin's revenge, but the lonely struggle of a great physician.

He saves not only the patients before him, but also the medical art of a world led astray.

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