Chapter Summaries

After waking in the body of a trafficked young woman in the 1970s, Song Ning fought off two kidnappers and rescued Lan Ying. They tried to flee by causing chaos in the mountain village, but a man blocked their way.

• Song Ning woke in a mountain village after taking over the body of a young woman who had died from a fever, and learned that traffickers planned to assault and kill her and Lan Ying.
• Song Ning kicked the mustached kidnapper unconscious, then rescued Lan Ying by knocking down the man attacking her.
• Song Ning used her new body's memories to understand the young woman's past and escape with Lan Ying into the village.
• Song Ning released pigs and chickens to raise an alarm, then set fire to a haystack as they ran.
• A tall man lunged at Song Ning and Lan Ying, shouting that they could not escape.

Song Ning escaped the traffickers' village with Lan Ying and sought shelter in a neighboring village, where she investigated a gang led by Pan TuozI. After Pan TuozI caught her sneaking around his house, Song Ning claimed she had her eye on him.

• Song Ning knocked out a trafficker who was pursuing her and led Lan Ying out of the village while Brother Da organized a search amid the chaos.
• After fleeing through the night, Song Ning and Lan Ying reached another village and saw Pan TuozI's men beating members of a rival gang.
• Song Ning hid Lan Ying in an abandoned woodshed and returned to investigate Pan TuozI's brightly lit house.
• Pan TuozI caught Song Ning near his window, restrained her, and brought her inside as his men joked about her interest in their boss.
• When Pan TuozI demanded to know why she had followed him, Song Ning said she had her eye on him and that he was exactly her type.

Song Ning tried to enlist Pan TuozI’s help against the traffickers who abducted her, disguising her request as an attraction to him. After Pan TuozI challenged her motives, she revealed that she had recognized his years of firearms training from the calluses on his hand.

• Song Ning boldly told Pan TuozI that she liked him, and he took her into a nearby room to test whether she was serious.
• Pan TuozI said he was not interested in her, but Song Ning challenged him by asking whether he lacked the courage.
• Song Ning explained that traffickers had abducted seven girls, sold five, and that she and another girl had escaped.
• Pan TuozI dragged Song Ning back when she tried to leave and demanded an explanation, so she said the men he had beaten were among her traffickers and that more remained.
• Song Ning praised the underlings’ fighting skills and told Pan TuozI he had caught her secretly feeling his hand twice.
• Song Ning explained that calluses on Pan TuozI’s right hand showed he had trained with guns for years.

Song Ning exposed Gu Zheng and his companions as undercover officers and agreed to cooperate with their anti-trafficking operation. Gu Zheng questioned her about her knowledge and abilities, then revealed that the traffickers’ report suggested she was the captive who was nearly dead.

• Song Ning identified Pan TuozI as an undercover officer by his calluses and his men’s military restraint techniques.
• Pan TuozI revealed himself as Gu Zheng, captain of the anti-gang operation, and Song Ning introduced herself and offered to cooperate.
• Gu Zheng questioned Song Ning about being abducted and knowing military techniques, and she explained that her grandfather had taught her and told her about the military.
• Gu Zheng asked whether Lan Ying, whose face was injured, was nearby and cited a trafficker’s statement about the captives.
• Song Ning learned that the traffickers had described one captive as nearly dead, and Gu Zheng pointed out that the description should have referred to her.

Song Ning led two young police officers to rescue Lan Ying, only to find Da Kui and another trafficker holding her hostage. Song Ning drew the men into the officers’ line of fire, and the chapter ended with the traffickers dead and Lan Ying safe.

• Gu Zheng assigned two young officers to escort Song Ning to bring Lan Ying back to the group.
• Song Ning found Da Kui and another trafficker dragging Lan Ying out of the woodshed and holding her hostage.
• When Lan Ying called for help, Da Kui threatened to kill her, so Song Ning planned for the officers to shoot the traffickers at the same time.
• Song Ning drew the traffickers’ attention, then flashed the flashlight into their faces and told Lan Ying to duck.
• The two officers fired together, killing both traffickers, and Gu Zheng pulled Song Ning up and praised her courage and quick thinking.

After Song Ning and Gu Zheng’s team rescued trafficked women from a mountain village, Gu Zheng brought Song Ning clothes and said goodbye before returning to his military unit. Song Ning stayed in Anping to help the rescued women begin the difficult process of recovery.

• Gu Zheng praised the two young officers who had helped kill Da Kui and his companion, then revised the arrest plans after hearing Song Ning and Lan Ying’s information.
• Gu Zheng’s team searched the village, rescued trafficked women, and split up to escort the survivors out while continuing to search for Brother Da.
• A week later, twelve rescued women reached Shajiao Town, and Song Ning took Lan Ying to the hospital before arranging to give their statements last.
• Song Ning found that Gu Zheng had left her a bag of women’s clothes and caught up with him as he was preparing to leave.
• Gu Zheng told Song Ning he was a soldier returning to his unit, encouraged her to consider military service, and wished her well before departing.

Song Ning gave the officers her background and asked for a new letter of introduction so she could continue to her intended husband, Lu Changqing. After she left, the officers realized her destination was Regimental Commander Gu’s unit and wondered whether he knew she was his comrade’s fiancée.

• Song Ning told Officer Yang how the Tiger Disaster had shaped her name and described her village’s history with hunting rifles, while adding that her grandfather had taught her shooting, martial arts, and medicine.
• Song Ning recounted her abduction and chose to continue to her intended husband’s place rather than return to her village.
• Song Ning told the officers that no one could escort her and gave Lu Changqing’s address at the 7th Regiment, 13th Army, Southwest Military Region.
• The officers issued Song Ning new letters of introduction, and she left after the questioning ended.
• The older officer recognized Lu Changqing’s address as the unit where Regimental Commander Gu served, while Officer Yang revealed that Gu had arranged clothes for Song Ning.
• The two officers speculated about whether Regimental Commander Gu knew Song Ning was his comrade’s fiancée.

Song Ning traveled toward Rong City with two county government employees, but rain stranded them in Bijie County. A man who recognized and followed her attacked her in the guesthouse, where a familiar-faced stranger intervened.

• Song Ning left Anping with Section Chief Fang and Little Zhang, and they stopped in Bijie County as heavy rain made the mountain roads unsafe.
• Song Ning saw her reflection, cut her hair, and returned to find the guesthouse crowded with passengers stranded by a flooded bus station.
• Song Ning noticed a gloved man in a knitted cap watching her and realized he had followed her upstairs.
• Song Ning ran from the man and hid in the men's shower room, where he found her and attacked.
• As Song Ning fought back, an unfamiliar man struck her pursuer down, and Song Ning recognized his face.

Song Ning and Gu Zheng captured the trafficking ringleader Brother Da at the guesthouse, and Gu Zheng reprimanded Song Ning for risking herself before praising her courage. Xiao Zhang escorted Song Ning to Section Chief Fang, who told her a serious problem had arisen.

• Song Ning discovered that Gu Zheng had knocked out Brother Da, the escaped trafficking ringleader, and pulled off his hat to identify him.
• Gu Zheng scolded Song Ning for confronting Brother Da without calling for help, then acknowledged her careful thinking and praised her contribution.
• Gu Zheng explained that he and his group had been stranded by a landslide and were assisting with the local emergency response.
• Xiao Zhang found Song Ning, learned what had happened, and escorted her to Section Chief Fang.
• Section Chief Fang told Song Ning that they had a serious problem.

Song Ning tried to help Doudou, a young boy suffering a fever-induced seizure, at a guesthouse cut off by flooding. After his family questioned whether she was qualified, she treated him anyway and left the attendant confused as she headed upstairs.

• Section Chief Fang told Song Ning that road collapses meant he could not take her to Yu City, and Director Hao promised to arrange her onward journey from the guesthouse.
• Song Ning found Doudou convulsing in the crowded lobby, stopped his mother from restraining him, and moved him to the duty room when his seizure ended and he lost consciousness.
• Director Hao said the flooded hospital had no doctors available, so Song Ning asked for warm water and a bed while a woman named Juanzi challenged her qualifications.
• Song Ning told Doudou's mother Ying that treatment was her choice, then used a needle to prick the child's earlobes, fingers, and the back of his neck.
• After finishing the treatment, Song Ning handed the needle to the attendant and said she was going upstairs, leaving him bewildered.

Song Ning treated a feverish boy, received a set of silver acupuncture needles from his grateful grandmother, and agreed to join a medical relief team responding to landslides. Director Hao also gave her a letter to help her reunite with her husband, and Song Ning realized he had planned the offer to recruit her.

• Song Ning left the boy's family to cool his fever with warm-water wiping, and his grandmother and Sister Ying discovered that his fever was falling.
• The boy's grandmother left Song Ning a set of silver acupuncture needles before her family departed by bus.
• Director Hao told Song Ning that landslides had struck nearby villages and asked her to join a second medical relief team leaving the next morning.
• Song Ning agreed to join the team, and Director Hao gave her a letter to the Southwest Military Region to help her reach her husband sooner.
• Song Ning teased Director Hao for arranging the letter as a way to recruit her, and he admitted that organizing the medical team was his responsibility.

Song Ning joined the second medical relief team at Gao Ping and treated evacuated residents alongside Doctor Zhou and Zheng Chang'an. When soldiers brought in a company commander with a severe bleeding leg wound, the local anesthetic failed, and Song Ning offered to try.

• Song Ning traveled with the second medical relief team to Gao Ping, where they treated residents evacuated after the landslide.
• Song Ning, Doctor Zhou, and Zheng Chang'an treated injuries and common illnesses for several hours in their assigned area.
• Soldiers carried in an unconscious company commander whose leg was badly wounded and bleeding.
• Doctor Feng said the commander had an open fracture and that lidocaine had failed to anesthetize him.
• Song Ning asked whether they had ketamine, learned surgery was not feasible there, and volunteered to try treating the commander.

Song Ning successfully stopped a company commander’s bleeding, cleaned and stitched his wound, and set his broken bone. When an emergency mudslide trapped injured residents in Rockhorn Village, she volunteered to join the difficult relief mission with Zheng Chang'an and a young man surnamed Wu.

• Song Ning used acupuncture to slow the company commander’s bleeding, then anesthetized, cleaned, and stitched his wound before setting and splinting his bone.
• Doctor Feng and the other doctors praised Song Ning’s skill after the company commander was stabilized.
• Director Sun and Battalion Commander Zhao told Doctor Feng’s team that a mudslide had struck Rockhorn Village and that injured residents needed medical help.
• Battalion Commander Zhao explained that doctors would have to cross difficult mountain trails because the roads were washed out, and Doctor Feng volunteered before being advised to select younger team members.
• Song Ning volunteered, Zheng Chang'an joined her, and a young man surnamed Wu was chosen to accompany them to Rockhorn Village.

Song Ning reached Rockhorn Village and organized treatment for mudslide survivors before rushing to an emergency rescue. She recognized Gu Zheng as a trapped child began to fade.

• Doctor Wu slipped on the muddy mountain path, injured his arm, and was escorted back down while Zheng Chang'an and Song Ning continued carrying supplies.
• Battalion Commander Zhao led the group to Rockhorn Village, where Song Ning organized triage and treatment for the evacuated villagers.
• A soldier summoned Song Ning to help at the mudslide site, where a child named Tiedan was trapped in the mud beyond the rescuers' reach.
• Song Ning bandaged an injured elderly villager as Gu Zheng arrived with soldiers carrying sandbags.
• Someone shouted that Tiedan was fading fast, and Song Ning recognized Gu Zheng.

Song Ning risked her life to rescue Tiedan from a mudslide, but the flood swept her downstream after rocks severed the rope. As she neared a cliff, someone caught her and took the impact of the rocks in her place.

• Gu Zheng ordered soldiers to try reaching Tiedan with sandbags and linked winnowing baskets, but the mud made their attempts fail.
• Song Ning volunteered to cross the unstable baskets, and Gu Zheng tied a rope around her waist.
• As the mud began flowing, Song Ning ran across the baskets, caught Tiedan, and tied the rope around him before telling the bank to pull.
• A new mudslide broke Song Ning's rope, and she drifted downstream on a log as the flood carried her toward a cliff.
• Song Ning steered toward a bend to escape the current, but a figure grabbed her and struck the rocks in her place.

Song Ning and Gu Zheng survived the debris flow and found shelter in a cave, where she treated his head injury after he passed out. When Gu Zheng woke, he appeared not to recognize her and asked who she was.

• Gu Zheng rescued Song Ning from the torrent, and they reached a cave to shelter from the rain.
• Song Ning used potassium permanganate and liquid from a bottle to start a fire, but Gu Zheng passed out beside it.
• Song Ning discovered Gu Zheng had a serious wound on the back of his head and bruising across his back, so she treated him and stayed nearby as he rested.
• Gu Zheng woke and caught Song Ning's hand, then asked her who she was and why he was there.

Song Ning reunited with Gu Zheng after he pretended not to recognize her, then learned he had to return to the military region on urgent orders. As Han Xiao escorted her toward Gao Ping, Song Ning discovered that Lu Changqing was also serving in the 13th Army and declared he was the man she intended to marry.

• Song Ning exposed Gu Zheng's act of pretending he had lost his memory, and the two joked together before she stopped him from smoking.
• Song Ning explained why she had come to the disaster area and asked Gu Zheng to take her to the military region after the relief work.
• A signal flare brought Han Xiao and the search party to the cave, where Han Xiao reported that Tiedan had been rescued and Gu Zheng had received orders to return immediately.
• Gu Zheng assigned Han Xiao and Chen Liang to escort Song Ning while he hurried back with two other soldiers, and Song Ning warned him to get his head injury examined.
• Han Xiao told Song Ning that Lu Changqing served in the 7th Regiment's Communications Company and was also helping with relief work, and Song Ning said she planned to marry him.

Song Ning returned to Gao Ping and confronted military doctor Chen Yuting, who blamed the medical team for Lu Changqing’s fever after treating his injured leg. After defending the treatment, Song Ning recognized Lu Changqing as a soldier from the unit she had been told about and asked Zheng Chang'an for surgical scissors.

• Song Ning arrived in Gao Ping and found Zheng Chang'an worried about a family member accusing the medical team of mistreating an injured patient.
• Song Ning entered the medical quarters and challenged Chen Yuting’s criticism, explaining why the team had treated Lu Changqing as they did.
• Chen Yuting threatened to report Song Ning and urged Lu Changqing to leave for the military region, but Lu Changqing told her he was all right.
• Song Ning confirmed Lu Changqing’s name and military unit, then asked Zheng Chang'an for surgical scissors.

Song Ning removed Lu Changqing’s stitches after Chen Yuting challenged her medical work, triggering a walkout by the disaster-relief medical team. Battalion Commander Zhao arrived and learned that Chen Yuting had come to see Lu Changqing, who denied that they were dating.

• Song Ning cut and pulled out Lu Changqing’s stitches, reopening his wound, then offered Chen Yuting the chance to treat it again.
• Song Ning requested a temporary suspension, and Zheng Chang'an, Doctor Zhou, and the other medical workers joined her in refusing to continue treating patients.
• Director Sun called Battalion Commander Zhao to deal with the dispute and the shortage of medical staff.
• Battalion Commander Zhao recognized Chen Yuting and asked why she had left Little Stone Village to come there.
• Nurse Zhang revealed that Chen Yuting and Lu Changqing were dating, but Lu Changqing denied they were together and said he would explain later.

Song Ning faced no immediate consequences after confronting Chen Yuting and removing Lu Changqing’s stitches, and she expected the dispute to cause more trouble overnight. She woke the next day to Zheng Chang'an bringing hot buns and announcing that two major things had happened.

• Battalion Commander Zhao ordered Chen Yuting to apologize to the medical team and warned her that he would report the incident to Regiment Commander Chen.
• Song Ning, Zheng Chang'an, and Doctor Zhou left the courtyard, and Song Ning and Zheng Chang'an settled down in a supply tent.
• Song Ning told Zheng Chang'an she expected Chen Yuting to cause trouble overnight and wanted more people to learn about her relationship with Lu Changqing.
• Song Ning fell asleep while Zheng Chang'an decided to treat her as his big sister and follow her lead.
• Zheng Chang'an brought Song Ning hot cornmeal buns the next morning and told her that two major things had happened overnight.