[Urban] [Feel-Good Fiction] [Traditional Chinese Medicine] [Humor]
Reborn on the first day of his internship, Lin Bei awakens the Treat the Symptoms System. As long as a patient follows medical advice 100 percent, he earns experience points.
But he discovers to his despair that all the patients assigned to him are stubborn old folks who avoid doctors and trust feng shui instead of hospitals.
When an old man refuses to take antibiotics no matter what, Lin Bei burns a sheet of yellow paper on the spot, mixes the ashes into water, and says, “Sir, this is blessed talisman water from Mount Jiuhua. Drink it down and the demons of disease will be driven away.” The old man gulps it down without hesitation.
From then on, the clinic’s whole vibe goes completely off the rails.
When an older woman’s feng shui superstitions keep her from exercising, Lin Bei sets up a “fortune-turning formation” in her hospital room and orders her to walk around her bed ten thousand steps a day to activate its core.
When a middle-aged man obsessed with fortune-telling refuses an IV, Lin Bei dons a Taoist robe, makes a show of reading his fate, and declares that he’s deficient in “golden liquid,” so he must obediently drink eight cups of saline every day.
Half a month later, an internet-famous sports school student kicks open the clinic door with a camera in hand, ready to livestream an exposé of the charlatan.
The next second, he stands frozen in place. Dozens of elderly men and women are holding gold-lettered banners proclaiming “Hua Tuo Reborn,” crowding the clinic until there’s barely room to move.
In the corner, the chief physician from a top-tier hospital stares at the medical record covered in mystical incantations. The teacup in his fingers slips and crashes to the floor.
