The Female Educated Youth Who Returned to the City in the 1970S and the Rough Guy from the Steel Factory

The educated youth who returned to the city and the rough guys in the steel factory, in the era of change, they redeemed each other. In 1979, the wave of educated youth returning to cities swept across the country. After ten years of living in the Great Northern Wilderness, Lin Xiaolan returned to Shanghai, full of hardships, and replaced her father in the Third Textile Factory. Her former ideals had been smoothed away by time, and she just wanted to live a stable life - until she met the man named Cheng Zhenshan on the train back to the city. He is a safety officer at Anshan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. He has a delicate heart hidden under his rough appearance. He had seen her calmness when rescuing patients, and he had also seen her spine bent by the times. When the roar of the machines in the textile factory drowned out her voice, and when the rumors in Tongzilou forced her into a corner, it was he who stood in front of her time and time again, using his calloused hands to shield her from all the wind and rain. From technological innovation to rumors and slander, from the fireworks in Tongzi Tower to studying side by side in night school, they got closer to each other in this city full of changes and pains. But the gap of the times has never disappeared - she is an educated youth and an intellectual; he is a worker and a "big boss". When Lin's father's opposition and the factory's suppression follow one after another, they must prove that some feelings can withstand wind and rain. If you want to go back to the city, I will accompany you back to the city; if you want to put down roots, I will accompany you to put down roots. This is a story about ideals and reality, persistence and compromise. It is also the most silent and deafening love in that special era.