Among the mountains on the southwest border, a poor county named Qingshi County is experiencing the violent erosion of China's rural revitalization wave. There are not only millennium rice terraces hailed as "living fossils" by UNESCO, but also hidden corruption caused by the trading of power and money. When 20-year-old Lin Xiangdong returned to this small county town carrying a faded army-green canvas bag, he never thought that in the next thirty years he would witness a desperate battle between traditional clan power and modern legal civilization.
