Shen Xinian, the second daughter of the Shen family in the capital, has been forgotten ever since the day she was born.
In the food chain of this wealthy clan, her older brother and sister are carefully groomed, while her younger siblings are doted on. She alone is stuck in the middle, like a wild weed growing in a corner: never watered, fertilized, or pruned. Her father says, “As long as she doesn’t cause trouble, she’s done her job.” Her mother doesn’t see her, and her siblings treat her as if she were invisible. Her only value is to grow up and serve as a pawn in a family alliance, marrying a stranger from a family of equal standing.
But she is not swallowed up.
Her grandmother, Lin Shujun, is the only light in her life. This veteran traditional Chinese medicine practitioner passes down her lifetime of medical knowledge to Xinian and asks old friends to teach her seven languages. On every forgotten birthday, she lights a lamp for her. Her grandmother tells her, “You only know whether you’ve learned something once you put it to use. Be like the herb du huo: grow straight up on a single stem, apart from all the other plants.”
When Xinian is sixteen, her grandmother passes away. Not a single member of the Shen family attends the funeral.
Carrying her grandmother’s belongings, a set of silver needles, a copy of The Shen Family Medical Canon, and a smooth piece of ancient jade, Xinian boards a plane to Switzerland alone. A full scholarship to the University of Geneva’s medical school is the path she has found for herself.
Abroad, she attends classes by day and works at a Chinese clinic at night, honing the medical skills her grandmother taught her through hands-on practice. She publishes academic papers, treats patients Western medicine has been unable to help, and holds her own at international conferences in seven languages. The girl once treated as “invisible” by the Shen family is becoming a rising star.
The writing is very good [][][], but the plot is too flat, and the title of the novel doesn't seem to match the characters. Some paragraphs are repetitive. Almost every chapter contains a conversation between the heroine and others. She repeats it to the hero and repeats it again in the diary. Grandma also appears. It seems that there is very little content to write, so this chapter is gone. Come on [asking for explosive updates][asking for explosive updates][asking for explosive updates][asking for explosive updates]
The writing is quite good, but it is not suitable for reading as a novel. The novel is a plot of events that follows time and has ups and downs. This book is more like a brief story of a person's life, like a "diary". The reader is always an outsider and has the feeling of being unable to bring himself into the story.
The story looks very calming, like a trickling stream, very heart-warming
The heroine is very good, she doesn't consume herself and is her own light
Although the story is a bit exaggerated, it is very eye-catching.
This book should be about a child that the author cares about very much. The description in the article is as delicate as any article I have read in many years.
So well written! The emotional expression is very delicate; I hope it will get better and better as you read on.
The content of this book is different from other books. It describes the life of the heroine, and the writing is super delicate.
Very good story, ordinary life story A ray of sunshine in the book, the article is very delicate and beautiful, grandma's love and wisdom make life full of the meaning of struggle, and find the direction of life value.
Super good looking I like this