When Luo Xia was very young, she came down with a strange illness. Her parents took her to every folk doctor in town, but none of them could find an effective treatment.
Later, they listened to a barefoot doctor's folk remedy and forced her to drink a bowl of earthworm water.
She stared at the writhing earthworms in the bowl, biting her lip and refusing to drink. In the end, her parents poured it down her throat. The experience left her with deep psychological scars, and from then on, just hearing the words "barefoot doctor" made her grit her teeth in hatred.
Unexpectedly, when she awoke from a dream, she had transmigrated to a small mountain village in the 1970s, inhabiting the body of an eighteen-year-old girl with the same name.
Her predecessor had lost both parents when she was little and had no siblings. Her grandparents had raised her.
Her grandfather was the only barefoot doctor in Luo Family Village. The village was extremely remote, a day's walk from the nearest town, and transportation was very inconvenient. Whenever anyone in the village had a headache or fever, they went to her grandfather for treatment.
Old Master Luo was a skilled physician who charged little and was kindhearted. For many years, people from several nearby villages had also come to him for treatment.
He had lived up to the villagers' trust, helping the sick and treating his neighbors. Unfortunately, he was getting on in years, and while searching for medicinal herbs one day, he accidentally fell down a mountain and broke both legs. He could no longer travel to treat the villagers.
Faced with the pleading, hopeful gazes of his neighbors, Old Master Luo decided that Luo Xia should inherit his skills and become a barefoot doctor, carrying her medicine chest through the countryside to treat the villagers.
At first, Luo Xia refused. She believed that sick people should go to proper hospitals. Why trust a barefoot doctor who had never received formal medical training? That would surely just delay treatment.
But under Old Master Luo's guidance, she treated one patient after another. Seeing the villagers' sincere, grateful smiles, receiving the eggs, fruit, and pickles they could barely bring themselves to eat, and hearing the clear laughter of children after they recovered, she began to feel that being a barefoot doctor wasn't so hard to bear after all.
Most importantly, the man she had picked up and brought home to treat grew more handsome by the day, more agile by the day, and increasingly unruly, ruthless, and unhinged. He was more than capable of keeping her safe.
She began to think that being a barefoot doctor was actually pretty good.
Li Shang was born into a landlord's family, but he never got to enjoy the good life of a young master. His family was turned upside down by the upheaval of the times.
Some of his family members died, others were scattered, and he was branded a stinking intellectual. Crushed and abused by policies and malicious people, he was left barely human, barely alive.
He couldn't fight back or retaliate, because the policies were what they were. If he dared to resist, his two remaining family members would suffer catastrophic consequences because of him.
He was like a heap of mud, left to rot in the earth, trampled and kneaded by anyone who pleased. He didn't care whether he lived or died.
Until one day, a beautiful, bright-eyed young woman with a medicine chest on her back pulled him out of the mire. Her gaze gentle, she touched his battered body and said, "Poor thing. How could they treat you like this? They've gone too far."
Her slender fingers felt cool and ticklish against his body, yet he felt an overwhelming warmth.
From then on, he became addicted to her warmth. No matter what happened, he stayed by her side and protected her.
In public, he was a cold, sullen, vicious, sinister monster.
In private, in front of her, he always looked at her pitifully and asked, "Are you leaving me behind again?"
This synopsis was screenshotted and posted on Weibo on August 19, 2024.
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