Qin Zhi was born into a family of doctors and was born with an extraordinary sense of smell. She could identify illnesses based on smell: sweet, greasy and putrid smells were signs of ulcerated organs, while fishy and sour smells were signs of epidemic poison entering the body. However, in an era when "medical books were only passed down to men", her talent was regarded as a "little trick" by her family. Overnight, the Qin family was framed by a "misdiagnosis", and her father kicked the nineteen-year-old out of the house to protect his reputation.
Desperate, Qin Zhi went against the flow of people and walked into the epidemic area blocked by the government. She rescued hundreds of abandoned poor people by her sense of smell. She was revered as the "Medicine Fairy". However, because a woman's practice of medicine disrupted the ancestral system, she was hunted down by the Imperial Hospital. Fortunately, an old pharmacist came to her rescue and taught her "the five types of fragrance", allowing her to advance from smelling fragrance instinctively to understanding the "nature of fragrance". The old pharmacist died to protect her, leaving only a pipe and pot as a memorial.
Qin Zhifan suddenly woke up and decided to open a medical clinic, recruit female disciples, and teach medicine through the art of smelling incense. She went from the epidemic area to Yaoxiang Pavilion, from being chased alone to being confronted in the palace, and faced the shackles of thousands of years of feudalism. When the hospital envoy from the Taiyuan Hospital burned her letters in court, she said calmly: "You can burn them. My books are in the breath of every person I save."
Later, when there was a great epidemic in the capital, Qin Zhi set up incense sheds to save the people in the city. The emperor issued the "Medicine and Incense Order", allowing women to practice medicine and hold medical certificates on the same basis as men. She has no love, no golden fingers, and only relies on talent and compassion to finally make the dynasty bow, confirming that "medical books can be burned, but the fragrance of medicine is in the heart."
