Ren Jie is a professor of metallurgy at a university in Yenching. When he was sent to work in the countryside, his girlfriend was humiliated and committed suicide by jumping off a cliff. He never married!

By chance, Ren Jie was reborn back to the countryside where he worked as a sent-down youth. In the intertwined love and hate of the two lives, he was on the run. Let's see how he survives in the cracks of the times and realizes his dream of becoming a high-end manufacturing power after going through all the hardships...