In 2035, Cheng Xiao, the king of short-form dramas who insists on performing real fights, is assassinated at an awards ceremony by Gu Chenzhou, a top-tier star backed by capital. As he lies dying, he is reborn in 2025, back in his days as an extra. This time, armed with ten years of painful memories, he swears to rewrite his fate: prevent his friend from becoming disabled, save the woman he loves, and expose the shady dealings of the powerful.
Faced with Gu Chenzhou's suppression and smear campaign, Cheng Xiao makes real fighting his weapon and uses his knowledge of the future to overcome every deadly trap. He breaks a wooden sword with his bare hands during an audition, stunning everyone present; exposes script tampering and fake fights in a livestream; survives a desperate struggle in an underground arena; and joins forces with hackers to obtain evidence of crimes. With the help of martial arts legend Xiao Han, he incorporates lost fighting techniques such as the "Eighteen Flips of Yan Qing" into real combat, setting off a storm of genuine fights throughout the industry.
As the capital-backed forces tighten their siege, Cheng Xiao forms the "Real Fighters Alliance" and engages Gu Chenzhou on multiple fronts: a battle of public opinion, a business war, and fights to the death in the ring. When the spotlights come on at the final awards ceremony, Cheng Xiao tears off capital's false mask with an unbroken chain of evidence. He replaces the tyranny of traffic-driven fame with the spirit of real fighting and restores the dignity of all the stunt performers who have stayed true to their original aspirations. This is a story of revenge, redemption, and faith, and a passionate battle hymn for everyone who refuses to let fate control them.
