In the last years of Dasheng, spring eclipses spread, waterways rotted, medicine routes were cut off, and the world was like a giant body that was terminally ill. Medical master Bai Zhiyuan went south to investigate the epidemic. He originally only wanted to save specific people, but between Yunze Hospital, Jiangning Pharmaceutical Market and Shengjing Imperial Bureau, he gradually discovered that this so-called "epidemic" was not a simple natural disaster, but a national disease that was promoted by the powerful, the pharmaceutical alliance and the court.
Traveling with him was Chen Xingye, who grew up in the city. This person is arrogant and acts in a wild way, but he understands best how the bottom class is crushed by fate and the system. He not only wants to save a person or a city, but also wants to find a way to live for those who should live but are tacitly allowed to die.
One is good at healing people, the other is good at solving problems; one sees specific pain, and the other sees the suffering of the entire world. The two went from tit-for-tat to life-and-death support. On the way to find out the truth about "Jingmin Soup", "Qingzhang Order" and "Washing the Country with the Epidemic", they gradually understood that the most difficult thing to treat is never the disease, but an era that tacitly acknowledges that someone must die.
When the truth tears apart Shengjing, civil unrest, counterfeit rebellion, embankment breaches, and bloodbath are all coming at the same time. Chen Xingye wants to save the world, and Bai Zhiyuan wants to save the man who saves the world. In the end, they won the chaos not with their passion, but with each other's wisdom, bottom line and unwavering trust, fighting for a new beginning for all sentient beings on the edge of collapse.
Intention: True redemption is not to sacrifice some people to achieve the overall situation, but to still not give up the possibility of letting more people live in the worst world.