Chen Lu, a talented student from a poor family, kindly helps an elderly woman who has fallen down, only to be maliciously framed by the Wang family's grandmother and grandson. As a result, he manages to take only the Chinese exam during the entire Gaokao. His father, Chen Bangguo, who has a bad leg, kneels and begs the villagers to pool money for his son's repeat year of high school. However, the Wang family, who framed Chen Lu, steals the donated money and joins forces with outsiders to humiliate them. What nobody present knows is that Professor Zhang Fengyan, a Qingbei scholar, has discovered that Chen Lu wrote a perfect-score essay in oracle bone script in the Chinese exam he managed to take. Chen Lu has already been specially recruited by Qingbei. Just then, village chief Zhao Dezhu arrives with the news of Chen Lu's special admission, and the truth is about to be revealed before everyone's eyes.