If sadness can be removed, if obsession can be cut off
Xu Gu, a 24-year-old pathology graduate student, has a secret she never wanted: she can see the "pathological crystals" condensed after the accumulation of human emotions. Depression turns into black rotten flesh, obsession turns into tangled red threads, and suffocation turns into hard nodules... They truly grow in the human body, eating away at the soul day after day.
And her hands can cut these invisible wounds.
Starting from cutting the first "obsession thread" from the wound of the patient who jumped from the building in the emergency room, Xu Gu embarked on a path that no one knew. In the autopsy room, she removed "self-denying tumors" from PUA victims, peeled off "nodules" from suffocating stay-at-home mothers, and turned every abandoned emotion into a specimen soaked in formalin. She dissected the joys and sorrows of the world with a cold eye, but never thought that there was a huge "emotional nuclear bomb" buried in her body, the focus of childhood trauma and the root of her withdrawn personality.
Fu Shen, the mysterious director of the emotional asylum, was always by her side, stitching her up every time she was exhausted with ice blue sutures. But he could save her people, but he couldn't save her heart that was about to explode.
When the villain forces coveted her abilities, and when the nuclear bomb in her body entered the countdown - Xu Gu made a decision that shocked the whole hospital: she would look in the mirror and open her own skull with her own hands.
This is a healing journey about "seeing" and "being seen". When those folded grievances, buried traumas, and denied emotions are finally gently cut open with a pair of scalpels - you will find that real healing is never about cutting out sadness, but about acknowledging its existence.
Every emotion deserves to be properly accommodated.
Reader comments
This book made me feel a lot of emotions. It is like a psychological education manual that tells us the relationship between emotions and physical diseases, how to cut off, how to heal, how to face, and how to perceive.
This book made me feel a lot of emotions. It is like a psychological education manual that tells us the relationship between emotions and physical diseases, how to cut off, how to heal, how to face, and how to perceive.