Lin Ye, 20 years old, is a sophomore at Jiangcheng University. He was born in a small county town and came to the city to study with the expectations of his family. On the surface, he appears to be a taciturn "social-terrorist" programmer, but in fact, he is a legendary figure in the hacker circle under the name "Zero" on the dark web.
In a campus programming competition, he was framed because he refused to work on a project for the rich second generation. His results were invalidated and his scholarship was cancelled. When he was desperate, he was pulled into the "Aurora Project" by the mysterious senior Su Xiaotang, a technological innovation team voluntarily organized by college students.
From then on, Lin Ye went from "lone wolf" to "team" and formed the "Backlight Team" with Su Xiaotang, poisonous tongue genius boy AKEN, retired e-sports player Lu Ran, and vitality girl designer Xiaoman, and embarked on the journey of the National College Student Science and Technology Competition Competition (referred to as "Ji Competition").
They use codes to write poems and algorithms to create dreams. Between virtuality and reality, they challenge the elites of prestigious schools, dark horses of capital, and strong overseas teams. And Lin Ye also gradually discovered that behind the "Aurora Project", there was actually an academic scandal from ten years ago, which was closely related to his father's unjust case...
