Qihuang Mizong

The story takes place in Tianjin Wei at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. The protagonist, Lu Huaizhou, comes from a Xinglin family. However, due to a "medical accident" when he was young, three fingers of his left hand were disabled and he was unable to perform acupuncture. He was regarded as a useless person by his family and had to work as a medicinal material appraiser in a Western hospital in the concession. He has an unknown talent: due to his disability, he has an extremely keen sense of touch. He can distinguish the subtle differences of medicinal materials through "blind touch", and can even "touch" the stories behind the medicinal materials - the place of origin, the heat during processing, and even the faint smell of the person who handled them. This ability makes him a key figure in connecting the secrets of traditional Chinese medicine with Western mysteries.