Dr. Du Ming

Author: Xiao Han
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The internet-famous medical thriller Dr. Du Ming—set against the backdrop of a medical school, featuring clean youth, calm murders, and melancholic yet moving prose. A pioneering work in medical thriller genre, a viral youth novel, with its film rights bought by Sun Zhou. The Chinese version of The Silence of the Lambs. This is the story of a split personality, with the coldness of a surgical knife and the melancholy of an anesthetic. From the rooftop, she shines brilliantly; he is bright and innocent. But when turned away, she sits on the ground with legs spread, teasing to the utmost; while he, in an instant, dissects a woman's body, skillfully and without a sound. In this world, no one is truly clean. This line of dialogue, lost in the wind, becomes the melancholic tone of the entire novel and a prophecy of its outcome. The plain narration is wrapped in a calm yet eerie atmosphere. The abnormal in the ordinary, yet all shrouded in a cool, or mysterious aura. This is the author's own temperament. The novel blends elements of the currently most popular medical thriller genre in the international book market, with the identity of a medical school anesthesiologist sometimes making the author herself lose herself in a fear that blurs the line between reality and illusion. It can be called the pioneering work of Chinese medical thriller novels. Under the author's pure brushwork, there is a chilling aura of killing, and in the heart-stirring love, there is the of the mundane; ugly and, or clean to the point of being otherworldly—only what is unattained, dead, unknown, or known too late seems to be a sanctuary. Perhaps, no one in this world is truly clean. Perhaps, the lover of an angel is a devil. Perhaps, the ultimate of love is destruction. Perhaps, the definition of thriller is Dr. Du Ming. Perhaps, this isn't about perhaps.
The 19th Floor of Hell. When Cai Jun was twenty, Du Ming met his senior sister. In white, she was as snow; a graceful youth. The afternoon balcony had a breeze, and his warm gaze was the only redemption... We thought this was the beginning of a story, but it was actually destined to be a catastrophe from the start. Purity is the color of the mind, but the world persistently seeks to stain it. He didn't cry, picked up the surgical knife, and became Dr. Du Ming. The words are rational and calm. In this twisted world, the original purpose of words might have been just to tell the story of a young man's growth. But Du Ming, who came from a remote mountain village, Du Ming who watched the faces of children gradually disappear beneath the water, Du Ming who ultimately lost the one he loved... Even with his hands already stained with blood, why was his heart still so sorrowful and pure? Thus, when we finally close the book and let go of this story, we might think it's an obsessive story. But is the obsession his or this world's? We might think it's a dirty story. But is the horror his or this world's? We might think it's a dirty story. But is the dirt his or this world's? More likely, when the story ends, there will only be a blank in your heart, like the afternoon sunlight: freezing cold, slightly warm. You know, that is Dr. Du Ming left in your heart.