Peerless Divine Doctor

Peerless Divine Doctor is an urban medical novel by the web author Huyan Luanyu, serialized on the Taduo Literature platform from 2016 and later posted simultaneously on multiple online reading platforms including Shuqi, Fanqie and Qimao; the book is complete. Its protagonist, Lu Yi, possesses a long-lost acupuncture technique: the three-inch golden needles in his hand can open acupoints and prolong life, and can snatch people back from the King of Hell. To find his missing fiancée, Ye Tianxin, he leaves the mountains for the bustling city of Jiangzhou and is drawn into its intricate web of people and events. The story opens at Jiangzhou Hospital, where the distinguished Madam Zhou suddenly falls into a coma. The hospital's specialists cannot diagnose the cause, and the director is frantic. Amid the skepticism of onlookers, Lu Yi twirls his needle and acts; with a single insertion, the unconscious woman opens her eyes, and the roomful of doctors exchange stunned glances. From then on, he cures difficult cases and saves the critically ill with his medical skill, and stands his ground through repeated slights and obstacles. Following the clues to his fiancée's disappearance, he gradually comes up against secret organizations and ever greater adversaries, pressing on through trials of both medical craft and human nature. Built on traditional Chinese medicine, the work blends suspense, comedy and light wuxia elements; its brisk pacing, short chapters and dense payoffs have kept it near the top of platform rankings for a long time, and it has been adapted into an audiobook and a comic. The book is extremely long and suits long-term casual reading; its depiction of traditional medicine involves obvious literary embellishment and exaggeration, so it should be read as a story, not used for self-diagnosis or self-treatment.