Chen Mo transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the village keeper of Guiling Village, an ancient village deep in the mountains, for three years.
Guarding a cemetery for nameless martyrs and caring for the village's elderly people living alone and children left behind by migrant parents: these are the rules passed down by his ancestors, and the fate he has accepted. He plans to quietly see out his three years, until the crew of Back to Field arrives in the village with their cameras.
At the mushroom house, Teacher Huang is stumped by the earthen stove. Chen Mo casually uses three stones to set up a stove mouth, then makes a table of farmhouse dishes that leaves the whole internet drooling. The wiring is old, the farm tools are dull, the guests can't adjust to the local conditions: whenever he passes by, he takes care of everything. Late at night, he plays an old guitar and sings an original folk song, and the livestream chat erupts like a blizzard of comments.
Everyone thinks he's just a simple, all-around village resident.
The top-tier star refuses to admit defeat, but can't chop wood, gets shocked while fixing the wiring, and is smoked black while trying to start a fire. The chat floods with comments: “Stop comparing, you're not even the same species.” Yet a female guest blushes quietly when he uses acupuncture to soothe her itching late at night, and gradually falls for his gentle way of telling stories to the children. The whole internet goes wild shipping them. The production crew brings him a contract, hoping to sign him as a regular; music platforms track him down in the village and invite him to record songs...
He turns them all down.
“It's not been three years yet.”
Then one day, the camera accidentally pans across the martyrs' cemetery on the back hill. With tears in his eyes, the old village chief reveals the truth: this beloved young man, praised by the whole internet, gave up three years of his youth and freedom to keep watch alone in a desolate village, guarding the final resting place of the ancestors who never returned.
That night, his name fills all ten of the top trending topics. The whole internet breaks down in tears.
