Lu Chen wakes up to find himself back in 1970, as the real young master who was switched at birth in a period novel.
His biological parents think he looks like a bumpkin, while his adoptive parents say he can't sweet-talk people like the fake young master.
To keep the fake young master in his city job, the adults from both families conspire to force Lu Chen to join the rustication program in the far northeast!
Lu Chen just gives a cold laugh and decisively signs the document severing ties with them.
You want to use me as a stepping stone? Dream on!
On the night before he leaves, his portable dimension awakens. He drops the act and clears out both families' savings, gold bars, bicycles, sewing machines, even their pots, pans, and the electrical wires inside the walls!
Before boarding the train, he also slips in a real-name tip-off letter.
As Lu Chen rides the train northeast, eating roast chicken and sipping liquor, both families are already being hauled away by the security department, and the fake young master wets himself on the spot.
Out in the wide countryside, while everyone else works themselves to the bone for work points, Lu Chen uses his maxed-out medical and mechanical skills to fight black bears and repair tractors. He becomes the county's treasured "living ancestor" and even marries a stunning educated youth sent down to the countryside.
Years later, while the fake young master hauls manure in the far northwest and both families waste away during their reeducation through labor, Lu Chen has long since caught the tailwind of the times and become a titan of the era, far beyond their reach!
