Returning to the 1980s, Ji Yunxi catches the wave of going out to work. Bearing the strange looks of others, she also has to take care of her brother who needs nursing, struggling to make a living by working in a factory. Knowing well that wage labor is not a long-term exit, she makes use of her writing specialty, seizes the opportunities of the times, starting from writing story drafts, breaking through heavy criticisms, and forging her own world in the cultural industry.