Core theme: A young man from a small town breaks through class barriers amid the wave of digitalization, rewriting his life through code. A teenage hacker from a scrap recycling yard.
The protagonist, Chen Yan, assembles computers at a scrapyard and teaches himself programming.
He sneaks into an internet cafe late at night and gets caught, leading to a meeting with a key figure, Professor Lin.
He makes his first mark by developing a campus management System...