The rising academic star who tragically died in a laboratory data leak in 2025 turned out to be the "speculative criminal" who was hung from the locust tree at the entrance of the village in 1980. Facing the onlookers' saliva and salt-soaked hemp rope, Zhou Zhiyuan clenched his bleeding left hand - the piece of paper with the "2025 Solid-State Battery Preparation Formula" written on it was burning, revealing a new line of words: [Countdown to increase in the unified purchase price of grain: 7 days].
When his wife from the history department, his lover of materials science, and his girlfriend, a financial reporter, entered his life one after another, his left hand was wiping the oil from the commune tractor, and his right hand had already laid the first secret chess piece of the technological empire in the Special Administrative Region. From using the laws of thermodynamics to fight against village tyrants, to taking advantage of the southern tour to prepare for the establishment of China's first private enterprise State Key Laboratory; from the subscription scalpers at the entrance of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange to the technical trump card traders under the WTO negotiation table - this "reactionary academic authority" in the eyes of academic circles is running wildly on the tightrope of the dual-track system with the technological fire of three eras.
And that bloody manuscript paper that continues to predict major historical milestones, with the bright red 1980-2010 countdown at the end, is it a bargaining chip given by rebirth, or a talisman for fate to pursue? When the temperature of his left palm exceeds 42 degrees, the man standing in front of the Monument of the Times will finally reveal the shocking truth about his time travel...
