In the spring of the twelfth year of the Republic of China, the apricot blossoms bloomed outside the city of Suzhou, but an uneasy atmosphere filled the Su family's mansion.
When Su Wanqing put the last book "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" into her suitcase, her hands trembled slightly. Father stood at the door of the study, hesitant to speak. He knew that his daughter was determined to go to Shanghai to study medical school, but he didn't know that a bigger storm was approaching.
Three months later, when Su Wanqing picked up the scalpel for the first time in the dissecting room of the medical school, the Su family thousands of miles away was being surrounded by Qin Rui's troops. The price of refusing marriage is tragic - overnight, the Su family, which has a long history of scholarship, was reduced to scorched earth. Only Su Wanqing, who was studying abroad, survived.
