1970s setting + military life in the Gobi + sweet military romance + traditional Chinese medicine + pharmaceutical research + face-slapping comeback
Wen Jianing comes from a family renowned for traditional medicine and pharmaceuticals, but after her parents become entangled in an old medical case, her uncle’s family withholds her household registration and work certificate. Her cousin takes the uniform for the medicinal herb station job that should have been hers, while her uncle pressures her to sign a statement voluntarily giving up the position.
Clutching an old medicine chest, she flees home and flags down a military vehicle on the highway. The cold-faced man inside has been bitten by a poisonous creature and is already showing dangerous symptoms.
Once she reaches the Gobi, everyone says she isn’t strong enough to do hard labor and will only cause trouble in the pharmacy. But she identifies moldy herbs from their cross-sections, traces contaminated water to a patient’s symptoms, and spots processing errors in an incomplete prescription.
When others use seniority to put her down, she speaks with retained samples. When they steal her work, she lays out the original records. When they wait for her to cover up an accident, she personally seals the problematic batch.
When the incomplete prescription becomes a life-saving medicine that can be produced consistently, the truth behind her father’s old case begins to emerge: the herbs found at the accident scene were never listed in the original prescription.
Who switched the medicine back then?
