A genius doctor battles plague AND superstition while Cao Cao lurks in the shadows. What could go wrong?
Season 1 • Episode 20
LatestTOR would cure CHO’s serious headache if CHO could promise his three conditions. TING determined to leave for the sake of MIU and TOR. On the other side, MIU went back to Hsuchang to reunite with TOR. TOR and his students compiled ‘Tsing Nang Book’ for descendants. Meanwhile, KWAN was killed. CHO suspected TOR would kill him. He therefore locked him up and ordered to burn his books. Before sending to prison, TOR returned home and met MIU. TOR rewrote ‘Tsing Nang Book’ and gave it to MIU. WEN used tricks to get the book. MIU therefore burned it. Fortunately, AH was able to keep the chapter of ‘Tieh Ta’. At the same time, TOR was exhausted and died. As time went by, MIU and TING were able to bring the chapter of ‘Tieh Ta’ and ‘Wu Chin Play’ to light.
Hua Tuo (Lin Wenlong) was extremely intelligent and obsessed with medicine since he was a child. After encountering by fate, he worshipped the famous doctor Zhang Zhongjing as his teacher. Once, Guan Yunchang (Yin Yangming) took a fellow from his hometown to seek medical treatment. Tu found that his illness was different, not ordinary typhoid fever, so he combined "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" with "Yin Nourishing Theory" and successfully developed a cure for plague. It is a pity that the people are superstitious about the ghosts and gods, and the villain's success has harmed Tuo a lot, causing him to be murdered. Zhang Miaoxin (Wu Yongwei), Zhongjing's eldest daughter, is in love with Tuo and is determined to marry and flee with her husband.
Acting
Frankie Lam's obsessive, fragile brilliance as Hua Tuo.
Production
Reconstruction of Han dynasty medical culture and practice.
Writing
Complex plague mystery woven through political machinations.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hua Tuo is legendary in Chinese medicine as the first surgeon to use anesthesia; this series dramatizes his lost medical texts.
Felix Wong playing Cao Cao continues his typecasting as powerful historical men who destroy what they cannot control.
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