Chen Yang, a social worker in 2023, accidentally traveled to the Red Star Production Brigade in 1983 after working overtime and became Chen Jianjun, a boy of the same name. Faced with an era of material scarcity, simple living conditions, and unfamiliar family members, he was once a graduate of a key university and felt at a loss but also thankful that this was an era full of opportunities and a chance to live anew.
With forty years of memories of the times, Chen Yang, under the identity of "Chen Jianjun", started with a breakfast of corn paste and steamed buns, walked into the classroom in the 1980s, and picked up the pencil in the coarse cloth pencil case. Not only did he have to adapt to the barren daily life and cope with academic challenges, but he also had to seize the hidden opportunities with his forward-looking vision when the wave of reform and opening up began: starting from small things to improve his family's life, using knowledge to solve production problems, and looking for breakthrough possibilities in the gaps in policies...
When modern thinking collided with the countryside and the market in 1983, and when the known future met the unknown life, Chen Yang stood at the turning point of the times, determined not to repeat the same mistakes, and to use his hands to create a completely different future for himself and his family in this land full of hope, so that ordinary life could regain its glory under the sunshine of the 1980s.
