1976: Alliance of the Reborn

When chip engineer Lu Mingyuan opens his eyes in the brutal winter of 1976, he's no longer in his modern lab—he's standing in a struggle session at a crumbling Northeast China factory, clutching a Mao portrait instead of silicon wafers. His first act? Saving Master Zhang, a veteran worker, from being crushed by a coal truck. Armed with decades of future knowledge and engineering genius, Lu must navigate the final days of the Cultural Revolution while building an unlikely alliance of dreamers and survivors determined to change their fate.