The Physician Is King

Fang Qianjin17K Novel Network

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3.5M words

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Male-Oriented Fiction Urban Fiction 中医Family Medical LegacyHealing PracticeDoctorIntern DoctorComebackComing of AgeFast-Paced Fiction

Summary

Intern Lin Yuan comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine; his grandfather is a famous old TCM doctor. During his internship at Jiangzhong City Second Hospital, he is reprimanded by attending physician Wang Wenhui for using ginger-sugar water to relieve a patient's stomach cold, just as vice-director Jiang Haichao is at his wits' end over the granddaughter of Mingshi Group's president, Zhang Xin, whose high fever has persisted for half a month. Learning that Lin Yuan is the grandson of Old Doctor Lin, Jiang Haichao, with nothing to lose, asks him to try. Lin Yuan treats patients with family arts such as qi-reading pulse diagnosis and golden-needle acupoint work, of which it is said one needle is worth a thousand in gold and the divine needle turns yin and yang. Starting from Jiangzhong Second Hospital, he travels through Jiangzhou, western Sichuan, Yanjing, and beyond, healing the sick while moving among the powerful and the vanities of fame, resolving crises of all kinds and gradually growing into a widely recognized physician. The book takes TCM as its main thread, interspersed with numerous typical cases, and concludes with Lin Yuan's grand wedding to Song Xiaomeng and the convening of the Apricot Grove Conference.

Editor's review

This is an urban wish-fulfillment novel centered on traditional Chinese medicine, with tight pacing and detailed case descriptions; techniques like qi-reading and golden needles feel fresh, and the protagonist's rise from intern delivers frequent satisfying moments. Suitable for readers who enjoy TCM legends and underdog comeback stories. The weaknesses are a controversial romance line, some idealistic plotting, and rather formulaic villain tactics.

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Reading tips

  1. Start from Volume One, 'Intern Doctor,' to get a feel for the protagonist's medical style before later volumes
  2. Don't get bogged down in TCM terminology; focus on cases and character conflict
  3. If the romance line matters to you, check the ending direction before committing

About the publisher

17K Novel Network

17K Novel Network (17K小说网) is a publishing platform centred on online literature, with 10,912 titles in its catalogue; publicly available information is limited, and its founding background and country or region are not confirmed. Judging from the existing titles, its publishing scope covers common categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, urban fiction, female-oriented fiction, time-travel and alternate-history stories, and selected fiction, spanning male-oriented cultivation and urban-life themes as well as female-oriented time-travel and quick-transmigration narratives. Representative titles include Deities: Recruiting Earth Players from the Start, Rebirth of the Nine-Tailed Superstar, Quick Transmigration: When a Max-Level Boss Becomes a Toxic Dad, Supreme Pill King, My Beautiful Wife, Chaos Tang, Wind Howling through the Jianghu, and Great Qin: My Inner Thoughts Overheard by the Ancestral Dragon from the Start, most of which unfold with the length and pacing of online serialization. Representative authors include Yang Zhizhi, Yuyi Tingbing, Xuanyuan Lvedan, Zhenyong, Manyu, Wuweijiu, Meng Qingxuan and Tianyan Junran, reflecting a publishing approach built on contracted online authors and organized by genre.

FAQ

Is this book completed? How many words? Completed, about 3.54 million characters, over a thousand chapters.
Which chapter should I start from? Start from chapter one; the hospital conflict main line begins immediately.
Is the protagonist's romance line single-heroine? The main ending is marriage to Song Xiaomeng, but other female characters appear along the way.

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About the author

Fang Qianjin Author

Fang Qianjin is a Chinese web-fiction author about whom limited public information is available; most of what is known comes from the works themselves. Nine of the author's titles are included in the collection, among them the Medical Practitioner Is King series, Full-time National Doctor, Mysteries of the Mystic Gate, Great Nation's Superior Physician, and National Traditional Chinese Medicine. The works commonly fall under premium fiction, male-oriented fiction, and urban fiction, with themes centered on traditional Chinese medicine, national physicians, and urban life, alongside stories such as Mysteries of the Mystic Gate that carry traditional mystical elements. Judging from the titles and categories, Fang Qianjin builds plots around medical practice, combining a sense of professionalism with urban storytelling to create reading appeal for male readers; the serialized approach and continued output in similar themes also indicate a relatively steady creative direction. The author's nationality and dates of birth and death are unknown.