Overnight, Chen Mo transmigrates and becomes an orphan who has fainted from hunger in a courtyard compound in 1965.
In his left hand, he clutches an apprenticeship certificate from the steel mill; on his right is a bronze ring that sucks in steamed cornbread. Its ten-cubic-meter space can hide food, but using it makes him cough blood and lose his hair.
He anonymously gives away high-yield potatoes and gets mistaken for an enemy spy. He saves a child from drowning and gets extorted in return. He gives a widow rice, flour, and oil, and ends up at the center of a scandalous rumor...
Chen Mo gets it: What kind of golden finger is this? It's clearly a vicious life-experience simulator!
Then he stuffs a disco-dancing carp down Xu Damao's pants,
forces Deputy Director Li to drink "Soviet miracle medicine" spiked with erguotou,
and swaps out Jia Zhangshi's peachwood sword for a glowing baton from a square-dance routine...
The courtyard compound erupts.
Silly Zhu chases Xu Damao, yelling, "Catch the pervert!" Qin Huairu knocks on his door in the middle of the night to borrow "Soviet baby formula," and the Deaf Old Lady leans on her cane and demands to "settle things with magic."
Chen Mo watches the new countdown appear on his ring,
and the mountains of classified documents and Dongfeng blueprints from an underground warehouse piling up in his storage space.
At last, he understands:
This busted ring, which needs to absorb good karma to keep him alive,
has forced him to become the most outrageous mastermind behind the scenes in the famine era.
