Chen Xiaohua was born in a barren mountain village. Her mother was sick and her brother was young. Dropping out of school seemed to be her destined fate.
Until Zhang Shufen, a rural teacher, thrust a shabby "Xinhua Dictionary" into her hands: "Reading is the only way out of the mountains."
From studying hard under the kerosene lamp to being a misfit in the county high school;
From the stunning appearance in the Science and Technology Innovation Competition to the cultural collision in Tsinghua University——
She broke free from the shackles of fate step by step, but when she reached the top, she turned around and looked back: those eyes still trapped in the mountains, the muddy road to school.
"Going out is not to escape, but to come back better."
When urban elite Cheng Xue met this stubborn rural girl, and when MIT genius Lu Mingyuan gave up the Silicon Valley offer for her——
This journey of education, growth and return has just begun.
Purpose: Knowledge changes destiny, but true growth is learning to use what you have learned to give back to the land that raised you