Chapter Summaries

Wei Kang extracted eight new drugs from abandoned prescriptions, including treatments for Cataracts, Helicobacter pylori, heatstroke, and Infertility. He delegated their development work to Three Purities' R&D staff, then headed home after a long day.

• Wei Kang searched the Abandoned Prescription Repository and selected a side effect that could restore lens transparency to treat Cataracts.
• He chose a side effect that killed Helicobacter pylori and several others with potential uses in respiratory care, anesthesia, Pancreatitis, and Osteoporosis.
• Wei Kang prioritized a Heatstroke blocker and selected a fertility drug that could treat Infertility.
• He extracted eight new prescriptions and reviewed the preclinical research needed to develop them.
• Anmei distributed the eight drugs among Three Purities' R&D employees for patent applications, Animal Experiment, and clinical trial partnerships.
• Wei Kang finished work at six in the evening and went home.

Jian Lianyun’s scheduled brain surgery was canceled because the patient chose Wei Kang’s new drug, prompting her to practice in the hospital and prepare dinner at Wei Kang’s home. Wei Kang comforted her by promising to buy a hospital for her if necessary, and the chapter ended with Jian Lianyun happily cooking for him.

• A nurse told Jian Lianyun that the Parkinson’s patient had canceled their Deep Brain Stimulation surgery to try Three Purities’ Neural Regeneration Factor.
• Jian Lianyun went to the training room and practiced drilling eggshells and removing green pepper seeds, carving several tiny faces resembling Wei Kang into eggs.
• Jian Lianyun visited Wei Kang’s home, used surgical instruments to debone a chicken, and prepared dinner while waiting for him.
• Wei Kang returned, and Jian Lianyun told him that his drugs were taking surgeries away from her.
• Wei Kang promised to buy a hospital for Jian Lianyun if she ever needed one, and she cheered up and began cooking his favorite chicken dish.

Wei Kang discovered that female fans had created a fervent online topic calling themselves his young madams, while Jian Lianyun joked about their attention. Xiao Tian became convinced Jian Lianyun was Wei Kang’s girlfriend, stalked her for several days, and decided to expose her to online abuse.

• Wei Kang found thousands of comments from the #President Wei's Young Madam# group beneath his dinner photo and learned that female fans were posting lovesick messages about him.
• Jian Lianyun and Wei Kang were baffled by the fan topic, and Wei Kang said the messages made him feel sexually harassed.
• Xiao Tian suspected the dinner photo showed Wei Kang eating with a woman and decided to wait outside Sanqing Garden to identify her.
• Xiao Tian followed Jian Lianyun to Kun City First People's Hospital and discovered that she was a neurosurgery associate chief physician.
• After tracking Jian Lianyun for several days and seeing her repeatedly visit Sanqing Garden, Xiao Tian concluded that she was Wei Kang's girlfriend.
• Jealous of Jian Lianyun, Xiao Tian began preparing to expose her and unleash online criticism against her.

Xiao Tian spread claims that Wei Kang was secretly engaged to Jian Lianyun, prompting gossip bloggers to publish her private information and the rumors to trend. Wei Kang denied the marriage and child rumors, publicly posted a photo with Jian Lianyun, and the chapter ended with her reassured by his concern.

• Xiao Tian posted that her best friend was Wei Kang's girlfriend, then sent gossip bloggers secretly taken photos and Jian Lianyun's personal information.
• Old Chicken and other gossip bloggers reported that Wei Kang and Jian Lianyun were engaged, driving the rumors to the top of the trending list.
• Wei Kang's executives teased him about the rumors, and he clarified that he had a girlfriend but was neither married nor a father.
• Wei Kang ordered the legal department to remove Jian Lianyun's private information and posted a public clarification with a photo of them together.
• Jian Lianyun's hospital colleagues congratulated her, and Wei Kang called to check that she was all right.

Sanqing’s team completed ground preparations for the Portable Universal Patient Monitor and persuaded the Aerospace Center to send two samples to the Space Station with the next supply mission. The chapter leaves the astronauts receiving the watches in orbit and beginning to try them out.

• Wang Dali and the engineers tested the monitor software, discovered possible health issues, and learned that the samples had to be prepared for space testing on a tight schedule.
• Lu Tingfeng sent Wang Dali and the team to the Aerospace Center, where he urged Fang Heng to include two samples in the upcoming resupply mission.
• Fang Heng agreed to send the samples after Lu Tingfeng insisted that they seize the opportunity rather than wait months for another mission.
• During a Tiangong Classroom livestream, astronaut Tang Yamei and the other two astronauts received the new watches and noticed they could display six routine vital parameters.

Tang Yamei and the other astronauts tested Sanqing Group’s portable smartwatch monitor during a livestream, demonstrating its health-tracking features and their space exercise routine. At NASA headquarters, Director Nelson learned that American medical companies could not readily replicate the device and decided to use its difficulty and an ISS medical incident to seek more funding.

• Tang Yamei showed viewers the smartwatch’s six vital-sign measurements and explained how space affected astronauts’ bodies.
• Tang Yamei and the other two astronauts exercised with the station’s treadmill, bicycle, and resistance bands while recording their physiological data.
• Tang Yamei confirmed that the monitor’s readings were accurate, and the astronauts resumed exercising before the livestream ended.
• At NASA headquarters, Director Nelson demanded to know why the United States had fallen behind and asked when its astronauts could receive comparable monitors.
• Nelson’s subordinate explained that Philips Medical and GE Medical could not fit all six monitoring functions into a smartwatch-sized module without a Sanqing sample.
• Nelson ordered the companies to continue research and pointed to an ISS medical incident as an opportunity to request a larger budget.

A flu outbreak spread from the sick Eagle Country astronauts through the International Space Station, forcing all nine astronauts to return to Earth and prompting a public dispute over NASA’s handling of the crisis. Bear Country announced it would end its station operations early and partner with China’s Tiangong, while NASA tried to defend its reputation.

• Ivanov and Nina complained about the International Space Station’s failing toilet and discussed moving to Tiangong after the station shut down.
• Sheldon, Noah, and Linda became seriously ill with the flu, but headquarters told them to wait three months for supplies and stronger medicine.
• Linda moved between cabins, and the flu spread to astronauts from Bull Country, Gaul Country, Sakura Country, and Bear Country until all nine astronauts were sick.
• The space agencies arranged an early replacement crew, and the ill astronauts returned to Earth as the International Space Station resumed normal operations.
• Bear Country accused NASA of neglecting sick astronauts and announced it would end its station operations early and partner with China’s Tiangong; Gaul Country and Bull Country also criticized NASA.
• NASA’s reputation suffered as online users compared its aging station and medical facilities with Tiangong, and Nelson claimed NASA suppliers were developing superior monitoring devices.

Fang Heng and Academician Xie weighed international cooperation over Three Purities’ space-grade monitor, while NASA faced Russia’s threat to withdraw from the International Space Station and China’s rejection of its cooperation request. Nelson pushed GE to produce a convincing but unreliable imitation, then ordered NASA to promote it as proof of Eagle Country’s technological strength.

• Fang Heng told Academician Xie that European astronauts were training to join Tiangong and that Mars Group wanted monitors for passengers traveling to the International Space Station; they agreed to deny Mars Group’s request unless it sent customers to Tiangong.
• Academician Xie praised Three Purities’ potential in space medicine and urged Fang Heng to expand their cooperation gradually.
• Nelson learned that the China Space Agency had rejected Mars Group’s request, European astronauts would soon work aboard Tiangong, and Philips and GE could not make a monitor comparable to Three Purities’.
• Nelson pressured GE Medical president Murphy to use Three Purities’ ECG module and add estimated vital-sign readings, and Murphy’s R&D director devised a plan for a smartwatch-like imitation.
• Nelson accepted GE’s monitor without testing its readings and ordered NASA to announce it as a rival to China’s device and send one to every astronaut on the next spacecraft launch.

NASA announced a portable patient monitor, but a viral interview revealed that the device used a Sanqing ECG module and performed below its advertised accuracy. Nelson faced criticism over his qualifications, NASA’s failed cooperation request, and the monitor scandal, leaving NASA’s reputation in both Eagle Country and China badly damaged.

• NASA announced that it had developed a portable monitor, prompting Eagle Country netizens to praise the agency.
• Nelson promoted NASA’s monitor in an interview and discussed plans for a lunar landing and a new Space Station.
• The host challenged Nelson about his lack of aerospace expertise, NASA’s failed request for Space Station cooperation, and the agency’s funding priorities.
• The host revealed that a dismantled NASA monitor contained a Sanqing ECG module and questioned its accuracy; Nelson blamed the supplier and called the device part of ongoing testing.
• The interview went viral, and netizens in Eagle Country and China mocked NASA and Nelson as the agency’s reputation collapsed.

Wei Kang agreed to a deeper partnership between Three Purities and the Aerospace Center, including research into space pharmaceuticals and genetics. Seeing that astronauts faced rapid bone loss in microgravity, he offered them Three Purities’ bone resorption inhibitor for testing.

• Fang Heng told Wei Kang that the Portable Universal Patient Monitor had succeeded and proposed a long-term strategic partnership between Three Purities and the Aerospace Center.
• Wei Kang agreed, and Fang Heng outlined plans to study drug stability, genetic changes, and pharmaceutical production for long-term space missions.
• Wei Kang considered how microgravity research could advance life sciences and improve the development and storage of macromolecular drugs.
• Wei Kang read a Phase I clinical report showing that a new bone resorption inhibitor strongly treated diseases related to Osteoporosis.
• Wei Kang told Fang Heng that the Aerospace Center could find the drug useful and asked whether its astronauts would try it.

Tang Yamei returned to Earth after six months in space and began a long rehabilitation, but a new bone resorption inhibitor developed by Three Purities greatly accelerated her recovery. The Aerospace Center praised the treatment and offered Three Purities opportunities to participate in future research aboard the Space Station.

• Tang Yamei and the other two astronauts prepared for their return, descended aboard Shenzhou-15, and landed safely before being taken for medical examinations and rehabilitation.
• Two weeks later, Li Yaping visited Tang Yamei, and a doctor explained that Three Purities' new medicine had rapidly restored Li Yaping's lost bone mass and could help Tang Yamei recover too.
• Tang Yamei began taking the medicine and recovered bone mass quickly, while her muscle atrophy continued to improve more slowly through exercise.
• Fang Heng told Academician Xie that the treatment had restored astronauts' bone condition within two to three months and praised Three Purities' research.
• Academician Xie said Three Purities could apply for future Space Station research projects in life sciences and aerospace medicine, while covering development costs.

A television interview with Tang Yamei highlighted how Three Purities’ new drug helped the Shenzhou 15 astronauts recover from bone loss, drawing praise at home and frustration abroad. Wei Kang then began Phase III trials of the bone resorption inhibitor for osteoporosis patients, and Liu Yurong secured a trial spot.

• Tang Yamei described her spacewalk, her hopes of returning to space, and how Three Purities’ bone resorption inhibitor helped the Shenzhou 15 crew recover in two months.
• The interview sparked praise among Chinese netizens, while NASA’s repeated lunar mission delays drew criticism overseas.
• Nelson grew furious that the Tiangong Space Station’s upcoming international cooperation project would include European astronauts but not Eagle Country.
• Wei Kang launched Phase III clinical trials, redesigning treatment plans and dosages for osteoporosis patients whose bone loss was linked to aging.
• Osteoporosis patients received trial invitations through the Longtu APP, and Liu Yurong obtained one of the free treatment spots.

Grandma Liu’s severe osteoporosis improved dramatically during a Phase III trial of Three Purities’s new medicine, allowing her to undergo successful spinal correction surgery. After reviewing the trial’s strong results, Wei Kang approved Chen Yiqing’s new motor neuron regeneration project and added Zhang Li to the company’s talent watch list.

• Grandma Liu’s daughter brought her to Kun City First People's Hospital, where doctors diagnosed severe osteoporosis and old compression fractures that had caused her pronounced hunchback.
• After her daughter enrolled her in Three Purities’s Phase III trial, Grandma Liu’s pain eased and her bone density rose enough for spinal correction surgery.
• The surgery corrected Grandma Liu’s spine, and she could raise her head again as the clinical trial’s participants showed substantial improvement.
• Wei Kang reviewed trial results showing that Three Purities’s bone resorption inhibitor increased bone density and reduced fracture risks with few serious adverse reactions.
• Chen Yiqing proposed studying motor neuron regeneration with Zhang Li, and Wei Kang approved the project and added Zhang Li to the company’s list of promising employees.

Sanqing’s fertility aid completed its Phase III trial after improving fertility and helping more than a hundred older couples conceive. The grateful families hailed Wei Kang as the “Guanyin of Bestowing Children,” leaving him flustered and eager to avoid their thanks.

• Wei Kang redirected the fertility-aid trial toward university students after too few infertility patients volunteered, and Sanqing recruited participants from medical universities and clinics.
• The trial showed increased sperm activity and quantity, and an older couple conceived after both partners took the drug.
• In the second testing round, female participants announced pregnancies, and all the older couples in the trial were pregnant by its end.
• The families brought drums, gongs, and honorary banners to Sanqing to thank Wei Kang, including one calling him the “Guanyin of Bestowing Children.”
• Wei Kang told the receptionist to store all but one banner and hurried upstairs to avoid meeting the waiting families.

Employees at Sanqing Garden celebrated the fertility drug and the company’s maternity benefits, prompting Wei Kang to expand its clinical trial as more than two thousand employees and their wives enrolled. As the New Year approached, Wei Kang reviewed Sanqing’s record-breaking revenue and set his sights on becoming the world’s leading pharmaceutical company.

• An employee posted photos of more than fifty patient-donated “Guanyin of Bestowing Children” banners covering Sanqing Garden’s wall of honors, and employees debated the fertility drug’s effectiveness and the company’s maternity benefits.
• After learning that employees wanted children, Wei Kang added Phase III trial slots for them, and more than two thousand employees and their wives signed up.
• Wei Kang realized that the fertility drug and generous benefits had earned him the title of “Guanyin of Bestowing Children” once again.
• Wei Kang reviewed Sanqing’s fourth-year financial report, which showed revenue exceeding fifty billion dollars, driven largely by launched drugs, the Portable ECG Monitoring Module, and the Brain Neural Stem Cell Regeneration Factor.
• Wei Kang compared Sanqing with Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, then resolved to pursue more than sixty billion dollars in revenue and third place globally in the coming year.

Wenren Long announced that he had developed a potent combined HIV drug, which Wei Kang approved under the brand name Severing Love Spirit. Tang Que continued working on a gene therapy approach to eradicate HIV, but still lacked a safe delivery virus.

• Wenren Long told Tang Que that the CCR5 antagonist SQW26746 and a peptide antagonist formed a highly effective anti-HIV drug, which he wanted to name Heartbreak Severing Spirit or Severing Love Spirit.
• Tang Que congratulated Wenren Long but returned to his own challenge: finding a safe viral vector to deliver gene-editing treatment throughout the body.
• Wei Kang learned of the drug’s development and praised Wenren Long, noting that it could simplify treatment and help patients keep HIV suppressed.
• Wenren Long said clinical trials would begin after employees returned from the New Year holiday and credited Tang Que with part of the work.
• Wei Kang approved the name Severing Love Spirit and promised project profit-sharing for the researchers.

Wei Kang agreed to meet Jian Lianyun’s parents after Sun Chengren pressed him to consider marriage. The families met in Sea City and eagerly discussed a wedding date, leaving Wei Kang and Jian Lianyun holding hands and accepting the elders’ plans despite their private uncertainties.

• Sun Chengren urged Wei Kang to think about marriage and arranged for the families to meet before the New Year.
• Wei Kang called Jian Lianyun, who accepted the meeting but later worried that he viewed marriage as a life milestone and wondered whether he would support her surgical career.
• Jian Lianyun told Jian Guohua about the meeting, and he enthusiastically invited Wei Kang to spend the New Year with them while urging her to prioritize marriage and children.
• Wei Kang, Jian Lianyun, Sun Chengren, Jian Guohua, and Madam Jian met for a meal in Sea City, where the elders quickly began discussing the wedding.
• Wei Kang and Jian Lianyun exchanged a smile and intertwined their hands as the elders proposed setting their wedding date for National Day.

Huang Qin brought his grieving colleague Williams to his hometown for the Spring Festival, where Williams marveled at China’s infrastructure and discussed how access to the wider world had shaped Huang Qin’s life. Williams revealed that his late mentor had inspired him to become a biologist, but he remained torn over whether to return to Eagle Country to visit the mentor’s grave.

• Huang Qin invited Williams to spend the Spring Festival with his family, and Williams eagerly accepted after learning he could not attend his mentor’s funeral.
• On the high-speed train, Williams admired China’s speed, scenery, food delivery, and public safety, while Huang Qin recalled his rural childhood and how education had helped him pursue his dream.
• Williams told Huang Qin that roads and knowledge gave people a way to imagine and reach the wider world, prompting Huang Qin to recognize how his country had helped create that path for him.
• Huang Qin brought Williams to his family home in the county seat, and Williams explored the modern streets and shops while comparing them favorably with Eagle Country.
• Williams explained that his late scientist mentor had guided him from a difficult childhood into biology, then admitted he was unsure whether to return to Eagle Country to visit the mentor’s grave.

Williams celebrated New Year with Huang Qin’s family, regained a sense of familial warmth, and saw how poverty alleviation had transformed her village. His visit strengthened his admiration for China and gave him renewed purpose, leaving him resolved about the road ahead.

• Williams watched Huang Qin’s family laugh together and relived memories of his childhood Christmases with his father, recovering some of his lost warmth.
• Relatives questioned Williams about his personal life, and he struggled to answer their curious inquiries.
• Huang Qin’s family took Williams to their village, where he was amazed by its modern homes, roads, and infrastructure.
• Father Huang and Huang Qin described the poverty alleviation programs, local businesses, medical support, and improved harvests that had changed the village.
• Williams compared the village’s progress with poverty in Eagle Country and told Huang Qin he hoped China would become the world’s leading superpower.
• Williams and Huang Qin laughed together, and Williams felt his inner emptiness begin to fill as he found renewed resolve.

After attending a crowded wedding banquet, Sun Chengren developed worsening stomach symptoms and learned that he had a severe Helicobacter pylori infection and a peptic ulcer. His wife and daughter also tested positive, and he decided to seek a clinical trial of his company’s new antibiotic.

• At the village wedding banquet, Sun Xiaoshi endured Gao Yuan’s foul breath, while Sun Chengren later left after smelling it himself.
• After returning to Kun City, Sun Chengren’s stomach symptoms worsened, and doctors diagnosed him with chronic gastritis that had developed into a peptic ulcer.
• A C-13 breath test showed that Sun Chengren had a severe Helicobacter pylori infection, and his wife and daughter tested positive as well.
• Sun Xiaoshi suspected Gao Yuan had infected them, but Sun Chengren urged her to tell him tactfully rather than blame him without proof.
• Sun Chengren remembered that his company had developed an antibiotic for Helicobacter pylori and decided to apply for a clinical trial slot instead of taking quadruple therapy.