Cheng Guanlan, an acupuncture and rehabilitation specialist who died suddenly in 2036, opened her eyes to find herself as Lin Qinghe, an eighteen-year-old girl pulled from an icy river in 1975.
Her former self had been sold to the Wu family for a 300-yuan marriage debt. Her father was gravely injured and on the verge of death, and the only thing that could save him was a tractor, but first she had to press her fingerprint onto the marriage contract.
She refused.
From saving her father and breaking off the engagement to protecting her younger sister's education, Lin Qinghe began learning to be a doctor all over again in those impoverished years: no miracle drugs, no faith in miracle-working doctors, and no gambling with anyone's life on a needle and a hoped-for miracle.
She never set out to become a miracle doctor whom everyone would kneel and beg.
She wanted the poor to have a chance to survive illness and make their own choices.
