Retired soldier Lin Xiao becomes the head of discipline for a second-year high school class at the age of forty.
He firmly believes that “character comes before education, and military discipline forges an iron will.” But his iron-fisted crackdown on phones, enforcement of morning drills, and strict housekeeping rules bring a united effort by privileged parents to force him out.
In his darkest hour, Lin Xiao binds to the Ironclad Military Discipline Education System.
Standing at attention = [Thinking Speed +300%]!
Making the bed = [Logical Perception +200%]!
Running in formation = [Photographic Memory + Iron Will]!
Starting with the school's worst class of troublemakers and slackers, Lin Xiao reshapes these problem students with the ironclad rules of military life.
The spoiled rich kid turns into a tough-as-nails class monitor; the internet-addicted underachiever wins a gold medal at the national informatics olympiad; the wealthy girl who hated studying makes a comeback as the province's top liberal arts student!
When the province's top schools arrive to provoke them with their best students in tow, they are greeted by the students of No. 2 High School, sitting as straight as pines clinging to a cliff and answering questions at a terrifying speed, their pens moving like a sudden storm.
The rival school's star teacher is utterly defeated: “Did you come to No. 2 High School to take the college entrance exams or to wage war?!”
