He Yuzhu, a modern-day chef facing unemployment, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a young man with the same name in 1950. The appearance of a pocket dimension gives him a chance to turn his fate around. To keep his younger sister safe, he joins the Korean War. Serving as a cook, he repeatedly distinguishes himself amid the flames of battle, rising from “Ghost Cook” to “Second-Class Combat Hero.” His ironclad military spirit is forged in the snowstorms of Changjin Lake and the tunnels of Shangganling.
After transferring to Hongxing Steel Plant as a deputy battalion-level cadre, he sparks a wave of reform: introducing modern management methods to boost production, holding the line on quality during the Great Leap Forward, and protecting the seeds of technical expertise during a turbulent period. Back in the complicated world of the Siheyuan, he uses modern know-how to see through Qin Huairu’s moral blackmail and expose Yan Bugui’s opportunistic schemes. He also gets caught up in one vivid struggle for power and wits after another with Yi Zhonghai, Xu Damao, and the others.
From the Korean War to Reform and Opening Up, his pocket dimension is both a storehouse that helps him survive troubled times and a “secret weapon” for advancing technological innovation. He leads the factory into precision manufacturing, establishes a vertical farming area during the three difficult years, and ultimately founds the “Hongxing Group” to ride the tide of reform. As the years pass, this transmigrator donates the strategic supplies he has spent half a lifetime accumulating to the country. Through his personal struggle, he writes a story that reflects the rise of industry in the new China, ensuring that the old locust tree in the Siheyuan will forever remember an age of steel forged with wisdom, courage, and blood.
[Covers face] laughs it off
Leaving traces, traveling through time with a golden finger means nothing