In 1998, in a small industrial town in southern China, Lin Jianguo, the director of a state-owned factory, was framed and imprisoned by the deputy director Wang Jianjun, leaving his son Lin Zhendong's family ruined and bullied. In the desperate situation, Lin Zhendong is reborn back to the day his father was arrested. Giving up stopping it hard, he uses his memories from his past life to acquire waste circuit boards by exhausting his family fortune before the electronic waste import ban, finds Su Qinghe, a technician marginalized by gender discrimination, and convinces her to cooperate with future technology. The two use chemical methods in a workshop to refine high-purity precious metals, make their first pot of gold to found "Oriental Core Materials", withstand suppression to secure a large state-owned enterprise order and rise, and finally expose Wang Jianjun's crimes of framing and hollowing out assets, clearing his father's name and opening the legendary path of domestic chip materials.