Chapter Summaries

Three Purities' product launch showcased Xiao Mei's wide range of abilities, and Le Jun tested whether she could diagnose someone through visual examination alone. Xiao Mei detected signs of stress in Le Jun, and Wei Kang ended the launch by announcing that the public beta would begin within days.

• Guests tried Xiao Mei's medical, office, and household functions, while livestream viewers praised her versatility and debated data security.
• Le Jun asked whether Xiao Mei could diagnose illness without medical reports by observing someone directly, and Wei Kang explained the lighting, camera, and audio requirements.
• Le Jun used the Sky Eye mini-program for a face scan, and Xiao Mei judged him generally healthy but identified stress-related symptoms and fluctuating blood pressure.
• Le Jun publicly credited his symptoms to the pressures of building cars, praised Xiao Mei's potential for monitoring elderly people, and left the stage.
• Wei Kang ended the product launch and announced that the public beta would begin within the next few days.

Three Purities launched public testing for Sky Eye 1.0, and Xiao Mei quickly became popular as people shared her medical consultations online. While watching a livestream, Zhang Jun and his wife saw Xiao Mei diagnose a man with HPV, sparking a public fight, and his wife suggested they try the AI themselves.

• Three Purities opened Sky Eye 1.0 public testing, offering users three free medical consultations per day and expanding its servers to handle tens of millions of users.
• Influencers and professionals continued using Sky Eye, while account scalpers and consultation videos helped fuel Xiao Mei's popularity across social media.
• Zhang Jun watched a livestream of Xiao Mei diagnosing people while his wife urged him to drink chicken soup and prepare for their attempts to conceive.
• During a street consultation, Xiao Mei told a handsome man that he might have HPV, and his girlfriend accused him of cheating and attacked him as the streamer fled.
• Zhang Jun and his wife laughed at the livestream, and she suggested that they try Xiao Mei themselves.

Zhang Jun and his wife used Xiao Mei to check their health, and Xiao Mei identified the wife’s likely pregnancy and Father Zhang’s possible early-stage Kidney Failure. The chapter ended with Father Zhang agreeing to visit the hospital while Zhang Jun resolved to rely on Xiao Mei for his family’s health.

• Zhang Jun asked Xiao Mei to check his health, and she diagnosed him with Physiological Fatigue from overwork.
• Zhang Jun’s wife let Xiao Mei scan her, and Xiao Mei suspected pregnancy and advised her to get a prenatal examination.
• Zhang Jun’s wife used a pregnancy test stick, which showed two lines, and Zhang Jun celebrated that he would become a father.
• Zhang Jun video-called Father Zhang, shared the pregnancy news, and persuaded him to let Xiao Mei examine him.
• Xiao Mei warned that Father Zhang showed signs of early-stage Kidney Failure, and Zhang Jun urged him to visit the county people's hospital the next morning.

Three Purities’ diagnostic AI Xiao Mei drove up demand for computing power as rival companies launched their own AI products. Wei Kang then proposed combining common in vitro diagnostic tests into a self-service booth, leaving Lu Tingfeng stunned by the idea.

• Netizens compared domestic AI products with Xiao Mei and discussed how companies were using her to assess employees’ health and job applicants’ fitness.
• Xiang Gaofei told Wei Kang that Sanqing’s GPU use had reached 30,000 units and that shortages and rising A100 prices threatened to constrain Xiao Mei’s service.
• Wei Kang ordered daily user experiences reduced from three to one and said Pangu Research Institute could lend Sanqing some of its H100 GPUs if needed.
• Wei Kang called Lu Tingfeng to discuss in vitro diagnostics and heard him explain the market and Sanqing’s diagnostic equipment projects.
• Wei Kang told Lu Tingfeng to pause development of the automated biochemical analyzer and proposed a booth-like device that combined common tests and automatically delivered results.

Wei Kang proposed a Diagnostic Booth combining portable medical testing equipment with Three Purities’ diagnostic AI, Xiao Mei, and gathered engineers to plan its capabilities. After the team debated equipment and tests, Wei Kang officially approved the All-Purpose Diagnostic Booth project.

• Wei Kang described how Diagnostic Booths could provide convenient examinations, AI diagnoses, and remote medical consultations in pharmacies and communities.
• Wei Kang told Lu Tingfeng to organize a brainstorming session and begin developing the project, and Lu Tingfeng gathered Medical Equipment Department engineers several days later.
• Wang Dali proposed adding MRI and DR imaging, but Wei Kang ruled out MRI for now and rejected equipment using ionizing radiation.
• Lu Tingfeng and the engineers proposed routine testing equipment, CRP analysis, tumor marker screening, genetic testing, dementia screening, and tests for infectious diseases.
• Wei Kang approved the engineers’ ideas and officially announced the All-Purpose Diagnostic Booth project, prompting thunderous applause.

Wei Kang promoted Three Purities’ diagnostic AI and Diagnostic Booths as part of his vision for cheaper, preventative healthcare, while officials developed regulations for artificial intelligence. The authorities agreed to connect Three Purities with national medical data centers and launch hospital pilots, then announced the plan alongside the AI Regulatory White Paper.

• Wei Kang expanded Three Purities into in vitro diagnostics and envisioned affordable testing and continuous health monitoring as part of Future Medicine.
• Elder Tan convened experts to discuss AI regulation, and they agreed to develop flexible rules covering issues such as privacy, data sources, and intellectual property.
• The experts proposed special treatment for Three Purities’ diagnostic AI and suggested cooperating with the company through medical data centers and hospital pilot programs.
• Wang Guiqing invited Wei Kang to join the meeting, where Wei explained diagnostic AI, the Diagnostic Booth project, and his approach to early diagnosis and treatment.
• Wei Kang agreed to connect Three Purities to national medical data and begin pilot programs in hospitals, which the authorities officially announced a week later with the AI Regulatory White Paper.

As Artificial Intelligence spread across industries and Three Purities prepared to bring its diagnostic AI into hospitals, Wei Kang reviewed the company’s annual results. Three Purities reached 100.1 billion dollars in revenue, becoming the world’s largest pharmaceutical company and the first in its industry to join the Hundred-Billion-Dollar Club.

• Netizens discussed AI’s effects on jobs, copyright disputes, and the planned rollout of Three Purities’ medical AI at a small number of hospitals after the Spring Festival.
• Wei Kang reviewed the AI Healthcare market and judged that rival companies lacked Three Purities’ data and algorithmic advantages, while AI would need to assist doctors under supervision.
• Wei Kang read Three Purities’ annual financial report, which showed revenue of 100.1 billion dollars, driven in part by Artificial Blood, medical devices, and Xifuning.
• Wei Kang compared Three Purities’ results with Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer and recognized that the company had become the world’s top pharmaceutical company and the first to exceed 100 billion dollars in revenue.
• Wei Kang decided to publicize the achievement and set Three Purities’ next goal as remaining number one and pursuing further growth through AI Healthcare and other new fields.

Wei Kang announced that Sanqing Group had earned $100.1 billion in revenue, then credited its success to talent and innovation in a televised interview. The chapter ended with reports showing Sanqing had helped Kun City surpass one trillion yuan in GDP and propelled Su City and Su Province to record economic rankings.

• Wei Kang posted that Sanqing Group had recorded $100.1 billion in revenue, prompting congratulations and widespread discussion online.
• Wei Kang agreed to interviews with several official media outlets after Sanqing's annual report revealed record revenue and profits.
• Wei Kang told a television host that talent and innovation had driven Sanqing's success, thanked its employees, and described the company as an environment that cultivated talent.
• Netizens debated Sanqing's pay and working conditions, sharing accounts of its research, factory, and cleaning jobs.
• Media reports revealed that Kun City's GDP had exceeded one trillion yuan, with Sanqing's economic zone contributing roughly half of it.
• Reports said Su City had passed three trillion yuan in GDP and Su Province had overtaken Yue Province to rank first nationally.

After receiving a bonus of more than three million yuan, Huang Qin planned to buy a home, marry, and pursue further education so he could advance his research career. When he learned that local universities lacked suitable programs, Wei Kang proposed funding a prestigious university branch campus in Kun City.

• Huang Qin received a bonus of 3,265,437 yuan for his work on three agricultural research projects and shared the news with his parents.
• Huang Qin agreed to take blind dates seriously, planned to buy an apartment near work, and set his sights on becoming a laboratory director.
• Huang Qin researched in-service graduate programs and decided to ask Wei Kang for a recommendation letter to apply to Haishi Jiaotong University.
• Wei Kang wrote Huang Qin a recommendation letter and suggested pursuing a degree through equivalent academic qualification instead of attending classes.
• After Huang Qin described other employees' interest in further study, Wei Kang proposed funding a prestigious university branch campus in Kun City with in-service programs.

Gusu University won Three Purities’ university partnership by proposing a Sanqing Campus in Kun City, which was officially established with Three Purities funding. Huang Qin learned that employees could apply for a part-time graduate program and decided to pursue a doctorate.

• President Hou and Director Xie discussed Three Purities’ success and the opportunity to establish a university branch campus in Kun City.
• Director Xie proposed moving Gusu University’s biology and medicine graduate schools to Kun City, and President Hou submitted the plan for approval.
• The higher-ups approved the proposal and expanded it to include undergraduates, while Gusu University won the partnership with its offer to establish the Sanqing Campus.
• Gusu University and Three Purities finalized the campus plan, and Wei Kang transferred fifty million yuan in initial sponsorship funds.
• Gusu University Sanqing Campus was officially established, with graduate programs set to move first and employee applications for an integrated part-time master's-to-doctorate program opening after the New Year.
• Huang Qin read the company email announcing the program and excitedly told his parents he would pursue a doctorate.

Three Purities chose Gusu University for its new campus and concentrated new research funding there, leaving Nanjing University President Yang Yimin regretting the lost opportunity. News of the Three Purities Campus spread, prompting students and parents to consider Gusu University's biology program as a path to Sanqing Group jobs.

• Yang Yimin learned that Three Purities had chosen Gusu University over Nanjing University and Jiaotong University, then discovered that new research projects and funding were also being concentrated at Gusu University.
• Students on a graduate entrance exam forum discussed biology and computer science careers before news of the Three Purities Campus sparked widespread interest in applying to Gusu University.
• Forum users learned that Gusu University had moved its biology and medicine schools to the campus near Sanqing Garden, where outstanding graduates could receive scholarships and priority hiring.
• Li Xuefeng advised a high-scoring student who admired President Wei to study biology at Gusu University, describing its new campus and potential Sanqing Group jobs.
• Parents watching Li Xuefeng's livestream decided that Gusu University's biology program could offer their children stable, well-paid careers.

Li Gensheng welcomed his cousin Li Chunsheng to Kun City and showed him the comfortable life his factory job at Three Purities had made possible. Li Chunsheng looked forward to finding work, while Li Gensheng believed his son Li Xiaobin would enter university and join Three Purities’ R&D team.

• Li Gensheng picked up Li Chunsheng at Kun City South Station in his car and described his factory wages, mortgage, and son’s promising school results.
• Li Gensheng brought Li Chunsheng home, where Li Xiaobin and Li Gensheng’s wife welcomed him and shared a meal.
• Li Chunsheng praised the family’s prosperity and planned to work in a factory, while Li Xiaobin corrected his mistaken calculation about saving for a house.
• Li Gensheng reflected on how his job at Three Purities had transformed his family’s life and hoped Li Xiaobin would study biology and join the company’s R&D team.
• The chapter described how Wei Kang shared profits with employees and suppliers, helping Three Purities’ growth create better jobs and prospects across the surrounding industry.

Xiang Gaofei addressed hospitals’ reluctance to integrate Sanqing’s diagnostic AI by partnering with Zhengyuan Medical Robot Company to upgrade hospital guide robots. After the upgraded robots began interacting with patients using Xiao Mei, the team recognized that they had made a historic advance in robotics.

• Xiang Gaofei learned that hospitals wanted to trial Sanqing’s diagnostic AI through guide robots before integrating it into their treatment systems.
• Xiang Gaofei approved working with Zhengyuan Medical Robot Company after learning its guide robots had capable hardware but lacked intelligent software.
• Xiang Gaofei met with Zhengyuan’s representatives, and the two companies quickly signed cooperation agreements.
• Sanqing and Zhengyuan completed software upgrades for guide robots at ten Grade A Tertiary Hospitals in about half a month.
• Xiao Mei appeared on a guide robot’s screen and interacted with people through humanlike questions, answers, and movements, prompting those present to realize they were making robot history.

Du Qiu and hospital staff witnessed Xiao Mei’s guidance robots assist patients and visitors around Kun City First People's Hospital. After Director Fang saw a woman smash a robot to pieces, he decided the hospital would buy thirty of them to protect its medical staff.

• Xiao Mei advised Du Qiu to register with Orthopedics specialist Shang Fulin and helped an elderly patient find the B-scan Ultrasound Room.
• Director Fang and Zhai Yongping discussed expanding the robot program, potentially deploying around thirty robots throughout the hospital.
• Director Fang and Zhai Yongping saw robots answering questions and guiding visitors in the Inpatient Department.
• Director Fang returned to the outpatient lobby and saw a woman in a yellow down jacket smash a guidance robot with an iron rod.
• Director Fang decided to buy thirty robots to protect the hospital’s medical staff.

After a patient brutally attacked an Intelligent Guide Robot, hospital leaders realized robots could shield medical staff from patient violence, while videos of the incident and the robots’ medical guidance fueled public enthusiasm for AI Healthcare. The response brought new investment, plans to expand the initiative, and firmware upgrades for guide robots at hospitals beyond the pilot program.

• Police took away the woman who had attacked the robot, and Director Fang and Zhai Yongping concluded that robots could absorb patients’ anger and protect hospital staff.
• People posted videos of the attack online, where netizens sympathized with the damaged robot and criticized the woman.
• Streamers shared positive experiences with AI Healthcare, showing robots guiding patients through registration, tests, and treatment explanations before doctors confirmed diagnoses and prescriptions.
• Netizens praised the service, and the discussion drew investor interest, pleased health authorities and hospitals, and reassured doctors who saw robots as protection from violence.
• Hospitals outside the pilot program asked Zhengyuan Robot Company for upgrades, and the company coordinated with Sanqing Group to upgrade existing guide robots and extend the service to municipal hospitals.

At Sanqing Headquarters, Wang Dali unveiled a compact third-generation permanent Artificial Heart prototype and demonstrated that it could circulate fluid through a heart model. He explained its design advantages to Lu Tingfeng and reflected on the limits of mechanical organs, leaving the prototype ready for animal testing and later clinical trials.

• Wang Dali assembled and unveiled the 90.16-gram Artificial Heart prototype after a year of work.
• Wang Dali charged the prototype and connected it to a transparent heart model, where it successfully pumped blue solution through a complete cycle.
• Wang Dali cautioned the celebrating employees that animal experiments and clinical trials still lay ahead.
• Wang Dali explained to Lu Tingfeng how the prototype addressed immune response, thrombosis, hemolysis, and infection while using wireless charging and adaptive blood flow.
• Lu Tingfeng warned that mechanical hearts could not reproduce biological functions, and Wang Dali agreed that machinery could only replace some physical functions.
• Wang Dali and Lu Tingfeng reflected on the promise of biology and their different roles in pursuing future technology.

Wang Dali oversaw the first animal surgery using Three Purities’ Artificial Heart, which successfully supported a pig after part of its heart was replaced. The pig stood up that evening, while Wang announced plans to test the device as a Total Artificial Heart in a sheep.

• Wang Dali arrived at the Kun City Animal Experiment Center and watched doctors begin surgery on an anesthetized pig.
• The surgeons implanted the Artificial Heart as a Ventricular Assist Device, replacing the function of part of the pig’s left ventricle, then started the Blood Pump and completed the operation.
• Wang told the doctors that the device could replace both ventricles, and that the next experiment would use a sheep to test it as a Total Artificial Heart.
• Wang estimated the Artificial Heart could last around fifteen years in theory and said its clinical trials would take time, though Humanitarian Exemption Surgery might be an option for a patient who could not wait.
• The pig woke, was extubated, and maintained stable vital signs before standing on the operating table that evening as Wang and the others applauded.

Zhao Hong, whose end-stage heart failure had left him with little hope of receiving a donor heart, learned that Sanqing Group had developed a total artificial heart and was approved for humanitarian exemption surgery. Director Li began the operation, removing Zhao Hong’s failing ventricles to prepare for the implant.

• Zhao Hong’s son told him that his cousin had arranged a Sanqing artificial heart, and Zhao Hong became so excited while watching footage of the sheep trials that he was rushed back to the ICU.
• Dr. Zhao contacted Mr. Wang of Three Purities and arranged a humanitarian exemption surgery for Zhao Hong, securing hospital and health-authority approval within two days.
• Director Li led the operation as doctors gathered to observe the first human implantation of the total artificial heart.
• Director Li connected Zhao Hong to a heart-lung machine, then removed both failed ventricles along with sections of the pulmonary artery and aorta.

Director Li completed Zhao Hong’s Artificial Heart transplant, marveling at Three Purities’ self-adjusting device. After recovering and learning how to charge and monitor it, Zhao Hong returned home and settled into a healthy, contented routine.

• Director Li explained the transplant procedure, praised the Artificial Heart’s automatic blood-flow adjustment, and finished the operation.
• Zhao Hong woke after surgery and learned from his doctor that he had received an Artificial Heart with wireless charging and an estimated service life of at least fifteen years.
• During his recovery, Zhao Hong closely monitored his health and carried the charging device everywhere, anxious about its battery running low.
• Ten days after surgery, Zhao Hong moved to a regular ward, and he was discharged home a week later after his indicators remained good.
• Zhao Hong resumed daily life with precautions around magnetic fields, regular walks, and square dancing, while giving up drinking and playing cards.
• Zhao Hong grew accustomed to his Artificial Heart and told his son he was content as long as he could live well.

Three Purities' Artificial Heart entered clinical trials, while visiting surgeon Hawk witnessed an implantation and sent footage to Cleveland. Dr. Charlie recognized it as a fully artificial heart and rushed to report the breakthrough, leaving Cleveland poised to follow the patients' progress.

• After several end-stage Heart Failure patients received Artificial Hearts, Three Purities gained approval to begin Clinical Trials and started tracking patients' survival and safety.
• At Kun City First People's Hospital, Hawk watched an Artificial Heart implantation and was astonished that the device permanently replaced the heart's pumping function without visible signs or an external power source.
• Hawk recorded the operation and the patient's postoperative movements, then emailed the footage to his superior, Dr. Charlie, and requested that his training in Kun City be extended from three months to six.
• Dr. Charlie watched Hawk's video, recognized that Three Purities had created a fully Artificial Heart rather than a Ventricular Assist Device, and hurried to report the discovery to President Dr. Harrison and another important person.