Cheng Ping—or rather, Cheng Ping'an—was an honest, dutiful man. At least, that was what he believed.
His family had been farmers for three generations. By his generation, he had studied hard, learned some medical skills, and, after graduating, became a surgeon at a county hospital.
He was smart and capable, hardworking and resilient, with an unblemished background. He steadily rose through the ranks to become the department head, married Xu Qing from the same department, and built a happy family.
Until "that policy" came down.
As an exemplary individual who had always followed orders, Cheng An carried out the policy more enthusiastically than anyone.
He could no longer remember exactly what he had done. He only knew that the number of biting frogs in the pond behind the hospital kept increasing, and whenever he passed by, their croaking was deafening.
He felt it was not his fault. If anyone was to blame, it was those pregnant women's terrible luck...
But when the same thing happened to him, he ultimately could not remain indifferent.
Xu Qing died. His son was gone. As he watched the jagged line on the electrocardiogram flatten into a smooth straight line, he felt as though he had fallen into an icy abyss.
Why could he not even keep his own first child?
The promotion promised from above never came. All he received were a few hollow words of comfort and praise.
Cheng Ping felt unwilling, resentful. Desperate, he exposed every dirty secret he knew.
But no one believed him. Everyone said he had gone mad.
He was suspended, ordered to undergo an investigation, and briefly locked in a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
After stumbling through that ordeal in a daze, he heard the voice of a god.
The god called itself the ruler of life and