In the 1980s, Gao Jialin, a young man living in Gaojiagou, northern Shaanxi Province, was known to everyone in the village as the top scholar since he was a child.Although his family was poor, he read poems and books and was determined to get rid of the yellow land.The college entrance examination was his only chance to change his destiny, but he unexpectedly failed.He worked hard to become a private primary school teacher, but was squeezed out of the teaching staff.Gao Jialin fell to the bottom of his life, but with the encouragement of Liu Qiaozhen, he cheered up and continued to write, igniting hope in life and falling in love with Qiaozhen.Uncle Jialin's return to the village indirectly provided Jialin with the opportunity to work as a reporter in the county town.He met his like-minded classmate Huang Yaping in the county town. The silent guardianship of the country girl Qiaozhen and the enthusiastic expression of love of the Shanghai girl Huang Yaping put him in a difficult dilemma.After several struggles and several decisions, he relied on a pen to bring himself to Shanghai.Tests of fate came one after another. In his thirties, Gao Jialin learned that his university quota had been replaced by his good friend Shuang Xing.Even so, Galin was not defeated. He adapted to the times and worked hard to learn new knowledge, worked hard, experienced changes in the world, and wrote extraordinary life stories of ordinary people in the tide of the times.