The Road to Officialdom Begins with Massage

Su Xiangyang is the youngest star physician in the massage department of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. With his family’s inherited Tai Chi massage technique, he can diagnose illness by touch and relieve pain with a single hand. One day, an unexpected house call took him through the gates of the provincial committee compound. From then on, his hands touched more than aching muscles and bones: they reached into the arena of power. The Zhou family’s trust, the Zhao family’s attempts to win him over, Qin Lan’s trap, and the hospital’s hidden attacks: he was pushed around like a chess piece by forces on every side. Some wanted to use him, some wanted to destroy him, and some wanted to turn him into a blade that would always obey. But he was no pawn. He was Su Xiangyang, a doctor who had practiced “listening to force” since the age of five. He could feel knots and blockages in a patient’s body, and he could sense the deadly dangers lurking behind the scenes in officialdom. When medical skill became a ticket into the world of power, and the massage table turned into a battlefield without gunfire, he chose to keep walking with his head held high. A healer’s heart, a knife’s edge in officialdom. See how an ordinary man survives in the cracks and walks along the edge of the abyss, using nothing but his own hands to move an entire world.