Romance and Poison: The Urban Healer

Romance and Poison: The Urban Healer is an urban supernatural novel by the web author Duanzhang, serialized on platforms such as Zhangyue and WeChat Reading and now completed. The protagonist, Tang Yun, is a poor youth bullied in a major international city; his family fell on hard times after his father was poisoned and blinded in a chemical plant accident—the factory owner paid only a pittance before fleeing, leaving the family struggling. By chance, Tang Yun stumbles into a strange altar, is infected by a potent poison, and his body gains extraordinary abilities, bringing him into contact with things related to traditional medicine such as the "Ancient Poison Classic." Thereafter, with his strange and formidable skills, he treats patients, performs cosmetic procedures, and conducts health checkups, confronting his tormentors on campus and in the streets and battling all manner of opponents, while a goddess-like campus beauty, a girl next door, and others gather around him. The work combines "poison" with "medicine," following the wish-fulfillment path of a grassroots youth turning his fortunes around and holding his head high; the main thread escalates from personal grudges to larger conflicts, ultimately landing on the goal of "saving the world." The book is very long, fast-paced, and densely plotted—a typical male-oriented urban supernatural epic. The number of chapters varies by platform (roughly 1,100 to 1,200-plus), and the text should be taken as the version on the serialization platform.