The Top Student of the Siheyuan

A modern-day office drone unexpectedly obtains a “learning assistant” that can absorb knowledge and skills at incredible speed. After an accident, he transmigrates to a Beijing courtyard house in 1945. The country is in turmoil and everything needs rebuilding. As the familiar warmth of courtyard life mingles with the weighty demands of the era, the protagonist is delighted to discover that the fate-changing assistant has crossed time and space with him.

There is none of the arrogance of a golden finger used to conquer new territory. Instead, he meets the world with knowledge as his blade and technology as his shield. With the assistant, he studies day and night, steadily mastering the fundamentals before putting everything together. He breezes into a top university, astonishes teachers and classmates with his forward-thinking insights, and solves difficult problems in the lab with innovative ideas. Along the way, he earns the trust of close friends and finds love with someone who shares his ideals.

After graduation, he faces the country’s backwardness in military industry, machinery, metallurgy, power, chemicals, and other fields, and resolutely takes up the responsibility. In the military sector, he quickly masters advanced weapons development and improves equipment performance, building a firm line of defense for the nation. In machinery, he upgrades equipment to tackle production bottlenecks and develops new machines, transforming industrial productivity. In metallurgy, he solves the challenge of processing complex ores and pioneers new smelting techniques, producing high-quality steel and rare metals urgently needed by the country. In power, he studies clean energy generation and low-loss transmission, bringing light to more impoverished regions. In chemical engineering, he breaks through foreign technological blockades and develops new materials and processes, opening up new avenues for the industry.