On his thirtieth birthday, Ding Yi died of exhaustion at the tech company he had founded, only to see it eventually swallowed up by capital. He returned reborn to the summer he was twenty, just after graduating from college, carrying boundless regret and resentment: toward the business partner who betrayed him, the agricultural technology boom he had missed, and the mother who died while he was too busy with work.
In his previous life, he was a top student with dual degrees in biology and computer science from a prestigious university. When his mother fell seriously ill and urgently needed money, he was forced to give up graduate school and a high-paying job in the city, returning to his hometown to take over the heavily indebted family farm on the verge of bankruptcy. He spent ten years struggling in the quagmire of traditional agriculture, with all his knowledge and talent going to waste. In the end, a real estate developer forcibly acquired the farm, and his mother died amid illness and poverty. Now reborn, Ding Yi faces the same barren land, the same scornful mockery from those around him, and his mother’s increasingly dire medical reports. But this time, despair no longer burns in his eyes. A wildfire does.
**Core Conflicts:**
1. **Villain’s Agent + Stakes of Fate**: The culprit behind the farm’s takeover in his previous life, local real estate tycoon Zhao Guangkun and his henchmen (Villain 1), have already set their sights on the development zone planned for this land. If Ding Yi cannot revive the farm and pay off its debts within a year, the land will be forcibly auctioned off, his mother will be left without money for treatment, and history will repeat itself. Failure means losing both his home and his loved one.
2. **Impossible Task + Hostile Environment**: A “bookworm” with no farming experience must use seemingly “impractical” high...
