Wheat Awns in Spring

Gao Yifu quits her job and returns to her hometown, taking her father's scalpel and becoming a rural veterinarian who travels across fields and villages.

In the eyes of others, it's a far from glamorous profession, involving exhausting days of hard work and constant contact with large animals.

But she isn't exactly what you'd call down-to-earth in the traditional sense. She'll put on a red lip and a white dress in a heartbeat, with eyeliner sharp enough to take flight, then ride her motorcycle all over the place.

She might as well have