From Civil Engineering to Traditional Chinese Medicine: My Comeback

Name: From Civil Engineering to Traditional Chinese Medicine: My Comeback
Author: Fair Weather and Clear Skies

土木改行：我学中医逆袭

by Fair Weather and Clear Skies (时和景明)

Status: Completed
Length: 623k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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I graduated with a civil engineering degree and immediately became unemployed. I sent out more than two hundred resumes and didn’t get a single interview.

Unable to afford rent, I could only keep myself afloat by delivering takeout.

That’s me, Lin Yi, a member of the 2024 graduating class, crushed by the harsh realities of life.

But nobody knew that my grandfather was a famous folk doctor in our area. I’d been memorizing acupuncture techniques, classical formulas, folk remedies, and therapeutic diets since I was a child, until I knew the medicinal songs by heart.

The real estate market collapsed, but traditional Chinese medicine didn’t.

While making a delivery one day, I used an emergency technique from The Great Compendium of Acupuncture to save an old man suffering an angina attack. I never expected him to be a renowned doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in the city.

He asked me, “Would you like to study with me?”

I said, “I don’t even have a medical license.”

He smiled. “Sun Simiao didn’t have one either.”

From a subdivided room in an urban village to a specially appointed expert at a top-tier hospital, from being called a “fraud” to having patients queue up to book appointments with me.

Every prescription in Treatise on Cold Damage, Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold, and The Great Compendium of Acupuncture has a source, and every case has a history.

All the prescriptions and acupuncture techniques in this book come from the classics of traditional Chinese medicine. None of them are made up.

But I have to warn you: don’t follow the prescriptions in this book and prepare the medicine yourself. If you’re sick, go to a hospital. Leave professional matters to professionals.

This is a novel, not a prescription.

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