Pretending to Be a Slacker, I Return Home to Build a Pillar of the Nation

In 1955, a ship carrying veteran scientists returning from overseas studies slowly approached their homeland.

Everyone aboard was a brilliant expert with a wealth of knowledge, except the young Su Bai, who faced a barrage of criticism.

Everyone knew his grades had been at the bottom of his class while studying abroad and that he had ended his studies early and returned home. To outsiders, he was simply an idle young man who had learned nothing.

Seeing no impressive academic record to speak of, foreign officials let the group return home without any suspicion, while deliberately confiscating the research materials of many senior scientists.

No one knew that Su Bai was a top researcher from the future, an expert in core technologies across industrial and military fields.

He knew that showing off his talents in a foreign land would bring countless obstacles and keep him from returning home to help build the country. So he deliberately kept a low profile, lowered his grades, and used a mediocre façade to disguise himself completely.

Many of the senior scientists aboard felt sorry for him and wanted little to do with him, but Su Bai didn't care.

Once he had safely set foot on his homeland, he cast off his disguise and devoted himself wholeheartedly to building the country.

First, he presented designs for advanced aviation engines, astonishing the veteran researchers.

Then precision-processing equipment, new types of aircraft, and other advanced technologies followed one after another, gradually filling the gaps in the country's industrial development.

With everyone working together, domestic industry and scientific research advanced steadily, and the country's overall strength continued to grow.

The foreign powers that had once looked down on him and misunderstood him were now filled with shock and admiration. They could no longer stop this land's vigorous rise.