A Life for a City

The poor medical apprentice Shen An can see "qi": those wrapped in black qi will die violently within three days, those gathering white qi herald a coming plague; but he can only warn about the same illness once in his lifetime, and every intervention costs him a stretch of his lifespan—irreversibly. When the qi of the whole city twists into one mass, he realizes what he is seeing also includes an old matter from thirty years ago. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: A Life for a City — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠