In the eyes of everyone she knows, Zhang Jiujiu is just an ordinary high school student, so ordinary that if you don't pay attention to her, you can't seem to feel any trace of her existence.
But no one knows that Zhang Jiujiu is an orphan from the old era. She comes from 1921, from the most difficult period in China. She was hidden behind countless people, and with the earnest hope of countless people, she saw the rising sun. She remembers every dark night, the person in the snow who said, "I'm just going to take a break, and you go forward, I'll catch you later." She remembers the person who remained anonymous and silently devoted himself to the last illness, remembers the name of every child studying in the United States, remembers...
She was regarded as the kindling that started a prairie fire and stayed, but she was not the kindling that started the prairie fire after all. Ten years is one year, and Zhang Jiujiu, who looks like a child of five or six years old, was unable to make a difference in that dark era. And when she grows up, when she has a way to serve China, China will already stand proudly in the east of the world.
Even though a hundred years have passed, Zhang Jiujiu still remembers her promise: She will take a good look at this prosperous age for everyone who stayed in those difficult years, so that she can go underground and tell stories to those old big brothers in the long, long time, how prosperous China is now, and how powerful China is now.
Jiujiu, I have been waiting for the swallow to return for a long time.
Purpose: I wish China prosperity