Jiang Ye was once the youngest attending surgeon at the former military district general hospital. After a medical accident thrust him into the spotlight, he went into hiding under an assumed name at a remote municipal hospital. Li Qingwu is a gifted anesthesiologist burdened by her family's disgraced name, yet her precise dosing has turned around seven surgeries on patients at death's door. When a series of explosions sends dozens of injured people to the emergency room, the two are forced to stand shoulder to shoulder beneath the surgical lights. There is no time to ask permission and no way back, only instruments counting down and hearts beating. He wields the scalpel; she controls life itself. Every second is a wager between life and death. The world questions whether they are guilty, but the real answer lies in every silent glance and every bloodstained surgical record.
