In 2024, office drone Mo Xiaobing and small-business owner Qi Ming both met untimely ends: one died suddenly from overwork, while the other blacked out after drinking. When they woke up, they had both somehow landed in 1983. Stranger still, Mo Xiaobing had become a starving apprentice at a steel mill and was bound to the Era Trailblazer System, while Qi Ming's soul had entered a battered fountain pen, making him Mo Xiaobing's exclusive magic pen and activating the Magic Pen System.
A poor kid with an uncommon surname and a magic pen containing the soul of someone with another uncommon surname: these two hapless partners were forced together. Mo Xiaobing used the System to spot opportunities in the changing times, while Qi Ming used the pen to draw scarce goods. They went from sketching a copper cigarette holder to trade for steamed buns, to earning their first fortune in the era of reform and opening up; from solving the neighbors' petty problems to riding the waves of the market economy.
They were each other's only secret and strongest support. In this lively, opportunity-filled 1980s, the young man and his pen had to earn enough to live with dignity while also uncovering the mystery of Qi Ming's transformation into a pen. And behind it all, there seemed to be a secret spanning time and space, connected to the two Systems.
