Heart Medicine

Name: Heart Medicine
ISBN: 9787550032132

龚莹莹Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · ChinaMar 2020

2.8

Word count: 222K words
Chapters: 46
ISBN: 9787550032132

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Summary

Shen Yixin, a potential third-generation heir of Xiuyuan Group, survives a private plane crash that kills his instructor Su Bingnan. Su Bingnan's daughter, Su Qingyao, joins Xiuyuan Group as a pharmaceutical representative, fighting her way up the corporate ladder while getting close to Shen Yixin, who holds key information, to uncover the truth behind the crash. Her uncle Su Binghao believes his elder brother's death was caused by Shen Yixin and swears revenge. Xiuyuan Group is listed on the NYSE. Yet grandfather Shen Mojin does not want the group to become a money-making machine for Wall Street; he wants to revive the ancient Chinese medicine formula Sheyixian. Though Shen Yixin is nominally the family's third-generation heir, he has long been sidelined and schemed against within the family. He makes his grandfather's wish his own ideal and quietly starts from the bottom. Xiuyuan Group faces internal and external troubles as various factions openly and secretly fight. The truth is peeled back layer by layer, and reality is brutally bloody. The loss of loved ones leads Shen Yixin and Su Qingyao to choose forgiveness and gratitude. The Sheyixian formula reemerges, and they strive side by side. Su Binghao, however, goes further and further down the path of revenge...

Editor's review

Heart Medicine weaves together corporate warfare, family grudges, and the inheritance of ancient Chinese herbal formulas, with the fallout of a plane crash driving the main quest for truth. Shen Yixin, a potential third-generation heir to Xiuyuan Group, is sidelined by internal family politics and starts from the bottom, turning his grandfather's wish to revive the ancient Sheyixian formula into his own mission. Su Qingyao joins the company as a pharmaceutical representative, building her career while drawing close to those in the know, and her uncle Su Binghao embarks on a path of revenge. The novel's appeal lies in the interplay of competing motives: the logic of capital and going public, family power games, and the choice between personal feeling and forgiveness or gratitude, peeling back the truth without flinching from reality's cruelty. The title "Heart Medicine" refers both to the ancient formula and to the characters' inner healing and letting go. It suits readers drawn to corporate intrigue, family saga, and traditional Chinese medicine alike; the plot is easy to pick up in commute-sized or weekend reading sessions. Those expecting a hard-nosed workplace guide or purely technical popular science on Chinese medicine should adjust their expectations.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers of suspense novels who enjoy corporate warfare entwined with family grudges
General readers interested in the inheritance of ancient Chinese herbal formulas
Readers who want a story balancing workplace struggle with emotional redemption
Novel lovers who need continuous reading in commute or weekend sessions

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting rigorous popular science on Chinese medicine academia or clinical knowledge
Readers who prefer purely realistic workplace how-to guides
Readers with low tolerance for heavy plot elements such as revenge and plane crashes

Reading tips

Start by mapping the core relationships between the Shen and Su families, then enter the main thread of the plane crash truth.
Read the company's IPO and the Sheyixian formula storylines in parallel, noting the conflict between capital logic and family ideals.
Slow down during Su Binghao's revenge sections and compare his choices with Shen Yixin's and Su Qingyao's attitudes of forgiveness.
After finishing, revisit what "Heart Medicine" means on both the formula and psychological levels, and organize your own understanding.

About the publisher

Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1990

Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional literature and art publisher. Judging from the books in the database, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, world classics, prose and miscellaneous writings, and classic works, while also covering literary appreciation and cultural reading. Representative titles include The Painter of Modern Life, Jane Eyre, Six Chapters of a Floating Life, The Moon and Sixpence, Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin, A Sportsman's Sketches, and Collected Prose of Famous Masters, involving Chinese and foreign authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Shen Fu, and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as translators including Guo Hong'an, Chen Jinhui, Jing Xing, and Jiao Haili. Overall, the press emphasizes the introduction of classic texts and the compilation of prose works, presenting a publishing profile centered on literary reading and cultural accumulation. As public information is limited, other aspects are not elaborated here.

版权信息
楔子
1. 被压下的报道
2. 修远集团
3. 别开生面的销售课
4. 本末倒置
5. 闺密与发小
6. 守业者
7. 临时任务
8. 心理战
9. 眉山老宅
10. 销售的意义
11. 分歧
12. 权力的转移
13. 身份成谜
14. 突如其来的告白
15. 另一个女孩
16. 苏炳浩的秘密
17. 真相边缘
18. 命运的恶作剧
19. 爱的勇气
20. 舞台事故
21. 辞职
22. 林家渡
23. 勐子哥
24. 身份公开
25. 创伤后压力综合症
26. 方向的选择
27. 清理门户
28. 走出过往
29. 电商构想
30. 古方传承人
31. 复职
32. 对峙
33. 阴谋的味道
34. 颠覆者
35. 青春的句号
36. 外公的小册子
37. 临江山庄
38. 危机
39. 沈氏家训
40. 一失两命
41. 熟悉的陌生人
42. 大胆的决策
43. 红色法拉利
44. 天网恢恢

FAQ

Is this book mainly about corporate warfare or romance?

Both are interwoven. The story is driven by the truth of the plane crash and the corporate warfare besetting Xiuyuan Group from within and without, while also tracing how Shen Yixin and Su Qingyao grow closer at work and how their feelings shift once the truth comes out, as well as Su Binghao's choice for revenge. Read the corporate storyline as the skeleton and the characters' choices around forgiveness and gratitude as the emotional payoff.

Can I read this without any prior books on Chinese medicine?

Yes. The Sheyixian formula serves as a plot thread and a character ideal, not a demand that readers have professional knowledge of Chinese medicine. General readers can simply follow the characters' motives; if the formula details interest you, treat them as story background rather than technical explanation.

What kind of character is the protagonist Shen Yixin?

He is a potential third-generation heir to Xiuyuan Group but has long been sidelined and schemed against within the family. After the plane crash, he makes his grandfather's wish to revive the Sheyixian formula his own ideal and chooses to start quietly from the bottom. The appeal of the character lies in the gap between his heir status and his actual actions, and in how his attitude shifts in the face of the truth.

Is Su Qingyao's purpose in joining the group purely innocent?

No. Because her father, Su Bingnan, died in the plane crash, she applies to become a pharmaceutical representative, building her career while drawing close to Shen Yixin, who is in the know, to learn the truth about the crash. Her workplace storyline runs parallel to her investigation; watch how her view of Shen Yixin changes as she gets closer to the truth.

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About the author

龚莹莹 Author

Gong Yingying is a Chinese web-fiction author. Public information about her is limited, and only two works can be confirmed at present: Jincheng Yanyun (Complete in Two Volumes) and Xin Yao (Heart Medicine). Judging from the usual categories, her writing spans time-travel alternate history and modern romance, suggesting that she moves between different story settings. Jincheng Yanyun, presented in two volumes, falls into the time-travel alternate-history direction, while Xin Yao belongs to modern romance and stays close to contemporary urban emotional storytelling. The clear difference between the two subjects indicates that the author does not limit herself to a single genre but experiments with both ancient alternate-world imagination and modern emotional relationships. Since the database contains no personal details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, or an English name, and no existing author profile is available for reference, more public material about her experience and the full scope of her work is still lacking. Based on the available works, Gong Yingying's writing focuses on genre-based emotional narratives, using time-travel premises and urban settings to develop character relationships, and may appeal to readers interested in web romance and alternate-world fiction.