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In the twelfth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty, Qin Jian, a genius from the Taiyuan Hospital, had six fingers on his left hand. He could touch the mind and be able to tell the difference between life and death by a hair's breadth. At the age of 19, he was ostracized by his colleagues for speaking out about the "human-to-human transmission" of the plague. During the Jiashen Incident, he had all five fingers on his right hand burned off while trying to save a copy of a medical textbook, and was reduced to a disabled person. Qin Jian, who was living among the people, got a blessing in disguise: the touch of his left hand was ten times more psychic, and he could actually "see" the flow of epidemic air and the signs of life and death in his pulse. From the plague in Yangzhou to the miasma in the southwest, from the medicine market in the south of the Yangtze River to the secrets of the Miao border, he became close friends in life and death with Liu Sanzhen, the sage of acupuncture in the world, and Gu Huaiwei, the daughter of a drug dealer, and practiced medicine in troubled times. He rescued an old man who drowned in a river, treated wounded soldiers who were massacred in the city, broke into Wu Sangui's palace, and debated Emperor Shunzhi's medical case. After Kangxi ascended the throne, he was recruited three times to serve as envoy of Taiyuan Hospital, but he rejected the imperial edict by writing: "Medical medicine is among the people, not in the court." Finally, he took the lost medical slips from Bian Que Cave, hid on the top of Mount Tai, opened a medical school, taught acupuncture, and wrote "Tongshen Lu of Medical Dao". Faced with a strange case of "no pain and no feeling", he fully understood the highest realm of medicine-- "A doctor has a mind, a mind, and an art. It's easy to treat the body, but it's hard to regulate the mind; it's easy to cure the disease, but it's hard to heal the heart." This is a vast road that a doctor spent thirty years in the turbulent times of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, holding the needle with his left hand and using his benevolence as a lamp, from "imperial physician" to "medical hermit", from "treating people" to "the way of medicine", and finally ended up at the intersection of the suffering of the people and the benevolence of the doctors. The left hand can decide between life and death, and the right hand has asked the common people. Medical knowledge has no boundaries, but benevolence never dies.