Lin Hao, a modern shut-in who died suddenly after staying up all night, opened his eyes and found himself back in 1980.
This was the golden age of literary blossoming. The afterglow of Scar Literature had yet to fade, while the wave of Root-Seeking Literature was just beginning. A single novel could sell for a fortune, and a pen name could be worth a lifetime of job security.
An educated youth sent to the countryside with no parents, he had less money in his pocket than the dirt under his nails, and he was hopeless at farm work. He had no way to return to the city, wasn't willing to marry into another family, and would go to prison for speculation. With nowhere else to turn, Lin Hao gripped his pen.
From an educated youth settlement on the black soil of Longjiang to the lecture halls of the Yanjing Institute of Literature; from thousand-character pieces in Yalu River and Zhongshan to receiving a National Outstanding Short Story Award.
His story "A Matter of One Cent" dazzled the literary world and won him a place to study at the Yanjing Institute of Literature, where he became classmates with writers who would later be household names.
Four years as classmates, thirty-four talented young writers, with Chen Huangmei, Sha Ting, and Feng Mu taking turns to teach them. This wasn't a study program at all, but the first class at the Whampoa Military Academy of the future Chinese literary world.
Lin Hao stood at the forefront of his era, making himself a literary legend with one hand and snapping up undervalued monkey stamps with the other.
A humble youth takes up his pen, and the land and its rivers flow into his words.
See how a soul from the future writes of all human life in the spring winds of the 1980s, and becomes a legendary literary sage of his generation!
