One circle of the vermilion brush, and execution in seven days.
Physician Shen Wenshan has become a death-row prisoner awaiting execution, with his time nearly up. Yet the jailer drags him out of the death row cells to set the broken leg of the prison warden's blue dog.
Those hands once saved the lives of refugees on remote mountain roads. Now, trapped behind bars, they can only be made to serve the powerful.
The prison walls bear secret marks, the case files obscure the charges, and senior officials keep a close watch on his teacher and his origins. As the storms of a chaotic age bear down, he has only his bone-setting skills to rely on. In the desperate confines of death row, he fights to survive one step at a time, trying to tear away the fog surrounding the injustice done to him.
Medicine can save lives, but it can also invite disaster. In a chaotic age, even the most skillful hands cannot heal the human heart.
