Wang Mo, a college student in the Department of Literature, woke up and traveled to the rural areas of Qin Province in 1975. He became a young man who depended on others and worried about food and clothing every day. During the lean days, the extremely thin corn mush, the cornbread secretly saved by his grandma, and the struggles of those around him due to hunger made him feel the weight of the word "full stomach" firsthand. A book full of poems and songs pales in the face of hunger. Looking at his grandmother who is getting thinner and thinner, he once despised plagiarism, and a difficult idea came to his mind - to turn the touching words of later generations into stories that can be accepted in this era. From shame to struggle, from testing to putting pen to paper, Chen Mo holds the pen and staggers forward between the pressure of survival and the bottom line of a literary man, trying to use other people's ink to write a way for himself and the people around him to make a living.