Worthy of This World

A modern medical student transmigrates into a dying girl amid a famine. She saves lives with her medical skills, but in a love doomed from the start, she learns how to say goodbye properly.

When Yang Qingwen wakes, she discovers she's become a dying girl of twelve or thirteen in an epidemic-stricken area outside Yongzhou.

Corpses of the starving litter the ground, and disease runs rampant. Armed with only the scraps of modern medical knowledge she remembers, she struggles to survive in this living hell. Fortunately, the retired imperial physician Liu Qingyuan takes her on as an apprentice, and she begins her journey of healing the sick and saving lives.

Three years later, she's become a moderately renowned female physician in the capital.

A serious illness brings her to Xiao Chengyi, the second son of the Duke of Zhongguo. Once a dashing young man, he is now confined to a small courtyard by consumption, his body emaciated, yet a spark in his eyes still refuses to go out.

She treats him with acupuncture, prescribes medicine, and stays by his side day and night.

He paints eleven portraits of himself as he once was, gives her the warm jade pendant his mother left him, and says, “When the time comes, I'll teach you sword dancing.”

Love steals in quietly. She knows it will come to nothing, but she cannot deceive herself.

And watching over her from the sidelines is Gu Yanting. He holds great power, yet gives her his heart because he mistakes her for someone else.

This is a story about doing what you know you cannot.

The heroine is clear-eyed and restrained, yet in the end, she loses her composure.

May we honor this world, and may I never fail you!