After working as a primary school substitute teacher for twenty years, Situ Liufeng stood on the rooftop the day he was fired.
He is forty years old, has less than 5,000 in savings, his wife wants a divorce, and his son is being laughed at. He thought his life was over.
Memories of a PhD student in education suddenly flooded into his mind - his thesis was plagiarized, his ideals were unfinished, and he died suddenly in front of the computer.
Two desperate souls merged in a forty-year-old body.
The next day, an unexpected appointment changed his life.
Everyone was waiting to see how he fell.
But he has stood on the podium for twenty years and knows better than anyone what it means to be "worthy of every child."
He breaks the iron rice bowl and reveals the dawdling teacher;
He promoted job rotation and provided English classes to rural children;
He gave targeted training and allowed girls from the mountains to enter the normal school.
From a dismissed substitute teacher to changing education in a place,
He used the conscience he had accumulated on the podium for twenty years to instigate changes in an era.
This is a realistic masterpiece about educational equity,
It is also a story about ordinary people changing their destiny with persistence.
All injustices will pass, and all persistence will have echoes.
Because those kids couldn't wait.
