Midsummer 1981

When Xu Ning opens his eyes in the summer of 1981, he's eighteen again—right after the college entrance exams, armed with decades of future knowledge. His parents scrape by on 39 yuan a month, but he has a plan: write his way to fortune at 10 yuan per thousand words. In an era before reform transformed China, one young man will use his second chance to rewrite not just his own destiny, but perhaps history itself.