Chang'an's Divine Physician: From the Start, I Crack Open Skulls

Later, a lot of people asked me the same question: “You’re a physician. How did you become commander of the Tiangang Guard?”

I usually say nothing.

Because they wouldn’t believe me if I told them the answer.

The first time I met Li Shimin, I’d just used a broken table leg to crack my own skull open. He saw blood running down my neck outside a ruined temple and said, “Come back to Chang’an with me.”

That was in the first year of the Zhenguan era.

After that, I was never my own man again.

Lin Bei, first commander of the Tiangang Guard, in his own words