How did a young man from Yaoshan, who had been repeatedly beaten by fate, move from a muddy pigsty to a university lecture hall in the provincial capital with a pen and a tenacity that refused to admit defeat, despite being surrounded by many obstacles, including his admission notice being hidden, his lover taken away, and his career ruined. This is not only a history of Deng Xiaolin's revenge, but also a soul epic of the lower-class intellectuals in the 1980s who survived, awakened, and ultimately fed back their hometown in the cracks of the system.
