[Brave, passionate, little-sunshine heroine x arrogant, sharp-tongued hero who never says what he means]
Qian He’s junior sister died, leaping into the frigid Bei River.
Everyone said she had taken her own life.
But Qian He didn't believe it. Her cheerful, lively junior sister would never have taken her own life. The medical residency system had killed her.
To find the truth, Qian He signed up for a newly launched training program: chief resident.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Beijiang had just introduced a "chief resident" system, planning to select two chief residents from among its rotating medical interns.
The two would be responsible for overseeing all sorts of odd jobs around the hospital, including but not limited to fixing computers, printers, and air conditioners, organizing meeting materials, and handling disputes between patients and medical staff.
Qian He signed up. On her first day, she discovered that the other chief resident working with her was none other than her nemesis, Cheng Wanchuan.
He was Qian He's childhood friend. They had disliked each other since they were little, and had coincidentally ended up at the same medical school. Talk about being stuck together like enemies.
"Qian He, how did we end up together again?" Cheng Wanchuan asked, wearing scrubs and looking exhausted.
"Why did you sign up to be chief resident?" Qian He asked, puzzled.
"I didn't sign up. They picked me in a draw. I must be really lucky."
That made sense. Aside from Qian He, no medical student would sign up to be chief resident, a job that was exhausting, thankless, and unpaid.
Well, they'd already signed up, and what was done was done. She and Cheng Wanchuan would just have to accept their fate.
The two became a chief-resident team, living at the hospital 24 hours a day, always on call and handling odd jobs for every department.
At 5 a.m., they rushed to cardiology to set up a Teacher's Day surprise for their attending, on behalf of the senior students who had graduated.
Before noon, they headed to hepatobiliary surgery to look for a rotten banana in the doctors' on-call room.
At 2 a.m., they went to oncology to listen to a terminally ill patient receiving palliative care talk about their sleepless nights...
Qian He gradually discovered the huge secrets hidden beneath the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijiang:
A giant maze lurked in the cardiology printer's wiring, with living hearts inside.
Behind a small door in the hepatobiliary surgeons' office was a tropical rainforest inhabited by all kinds of medical-supply monsters.
A deity who ruled over life and death lived in the oncology ward's palliative care unit...
The First Affiliated Hospital of Beijiang looked efficient, orderly, and well run, but under the surface, dangerous currents swirled. One wrong step could leave you trapped in a deadly otherworldly realm.
As they escaped death time and again, the secrets of the residency system gradually came to light.
Qian He thought she had uncovered the truth and found a way to bring her junior sister back to life. But on the final day of her chief-resident rotation...
Time suddenly rewound.
She was back on her first day as chief resident, with Cheng Wanchuan standing across from her in his scrubs.
"Qian He, how did we... come back?"
"I... don't know, but it looks like we have to start over."
[Ensemble medical drama with doctors and medical students, infinite-instance survival] If the fate of death can never be escaped, where can she go from here, trapped in an endless cycle of medical residency?
Theme: Redemption
