In the winter of 1958, Zhang Jianguo transmigrates into the body of a young man in a border village in Heilongjiang, so hungry he's skin and bones. He's about to freeze and starve to death when a "ding-dong" rings in his head, and a dilapidated warehouse packed with poor-quality matches appears. What should he do? He hears that the big brother to the north is short on light industrial goods. All right, then. He stuffs two boxes of matches into his pocket, wraps himself in his ragged padded coat, and boards the green train belching black smoke on its way to the northern frontier. From then on, the matches he sells don't just light cigarettes. They also ignite the legend of a border trader spanning several decades...
Theme: Transmigrating to 1958, becoming a border trader, and helping the nation rise.
