The Whole Hospital Knows Dr. Xu Can Dissect Grief

If sorrow could be removed, if obsessions could be cut away Xu Gu, a 24-year-old pathology graduate student, has a secret she never wanted: she can see the "pathological crystals" formed when human emotions build up. Depression becomes black, rotting flesh; obsessions become tangled red threads; feelings of suffocation become hard nodules... They grow inside the human body, devouring the soul day after day. And her hands can cut open these invisible wounds. After snipping the first "obsession thread" from the wound of an emergency patient who jumped from a building, Xu Gu embarks on a path no one knows about. In the dissection room, she removes "self-doubt tumors" from victims of psychological abuse and peels away "nodules" from suffocating stay-at-home mothers. She turns each discarded emotion into a specimen preserved in formalin. She coldly dissects the joys and sorrows of humanity, never imagining that a huge "emotional time bomb" lies buried inside her too: a lesion left by childhood trauma, the source of her withdrawn nature. Fu Shen, the mysterious director of the Emotional Sanctuary, stays by her side, stitching her up with icy blue thread every time she collapses from exhaustion. He can save her body, but not her heart, which is about to explode. When villainous forces covet her ability and the countdown to the bomb inside her begins, Xu Gu makes a decision that shocks the entire hospital: she will open her own skull in front of a mirror, with her own hands. This is a healing journey about "seeing" and "being seen." When the grievances folded away, the traumas buried deep, and the emotions denied at last are gently opened with a scalpel, you will discover that true healing has never meant cutting away sorrow, but acknowledging that it was there. Every emotion deserves a place where it can be laid to rest.