Financial ace Cheng Yuan transmigrates to 1983 with tens of millions in cash, becoming a substitute teacher in a poverty-stricken county. To make the money look legitimate, he takes over Hongxing Elementary School, which is on the verge of closing, only to discover that Lin Xiangyun, its gentle principal, is under investigation over the misappropriation of renovation funds. After activating the Education Revitalization System, he uses modern management principles to rebuild the school: he rents a farm as a base for labor classes, starts a printing shop to solve the funding shortage, and even brings in Hong Kong investment to build the county’s first computer lab. But every time he spends money, price fluctuations trigger a butterfly effect; every student he nurtures earns him scarce supplies from a mysterious space. As a tide of capital meets a planned economy, and business methods collide with pure ideals, this educational experiment across time and space finally faces the choice of an era when the college entrance exam results are announced...
