The Physician's Ashes

In Jizhou City, medicine and grain have long since woven a dark web that reaches into the imperial court. Three generations of the Su family recorded the anomalies in the medicine sources, and in return their entire household was silenced. The orphaned survivor, Su Yanzhi, hides as a wandering physician. For three years he listens to pulses on the grassy slope, gathering a sleeve full of fragmentary evidence. A shattered bowl serves as proof, a torn page as a guide; healing needles conceal killing intent, discarded notes conceal schemes. He checks and balances the folk healer Liu Tinglan, and plays a hidden game of chess with the prefect Shen Yuan. When the game ends, there are no winners. But medicine that cures a hundred illnesses cannot cure the human heart reduced to ashes. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Physician's Ashes — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠