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It's based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (one of the four masterworks of Chinese literature), which has a lot of complicated politics in it and complicated names (nicknames, courtesy names, etc etc). The war will be going on for decades if not centuries, even after all the characters die off, and the story is still only in the beginning part of the novel so it's nowhere near ending soon. In the novel, it focused more on bromance / sworn brotherhoods I guess, and women are mostly mentioned fleetingly as this and this wife was captured etc.
I seldom read medically centered stories because most of what I've read make it seem like the situations are too convenient for them. You know, one day having to save a patient who was standing on the side of the road, I mean, that rarely happens in real life. Im sensitive that way, beat it.
In any case, I love the story. The art is just PERFECT for the setting of the story! And I LOVE the MC's character. He's definitely a doctor at heart. Seeing no difference between his patients and saving them whether they'd kill him or not, he's the epitome of a savior and healer.
And he'll probably die with that attitude, but I respect him for that. And, I doubt he'll die anyway. Not until this chaos in the country has ended.
I don't really get the wars part, especially with the names confusing me and the historical context of it all. So I basically skimmed over the parts where they explained the strategies and occurrences in the wars and politics. I don't think it's because the author did a bad job at it, probably the translations' fault, but it's most probably because I'm not into it.
Also, I think with that in the way, it's deviating away from the MC's journey as a doctor, with which got me invested in the first place. So I hope this political wars and all that ends fast because it's not focusing much on the MC anymore.
Anyways, I would love to read more. With the manhwa lacking any romances, I basically squealed when a single chapter was dedicated to the MC's love life. I'm satisfied with that and I love that the author made that choice. It's a shounen manhwa, not a shoujo romance genre.
I'mma marinate this for now. I don't think it'll end soon though.