Chifeng: Road to Counterattack (35 episodes) - AllShorts
A thin sheet of paper weighs more than gold in this impoverished mountain ravine. Clutching his admission letter from Yenching University, Lin Zhiqiang ran…
A thin sheet of paper weighs more than gold in this impoverished mountain ravine. Clutching his admission letter from Yenching University, Lin Zhiqiang ran all the way from the village entrance back home—the happiest moment of his life. Yet that joy lasted only through a single meal: how would he pay for tuition? The cold shoulder from his eldest aunt and the silence of his eldest uncle made the eighteen-year-old boy taste the chill of family indifference for the first time. But his second uncle stepped up, his second aunt raised her rolling pin to scold the snobs, and fellow villagers brought over eggs, rice, and flour. That letter transformed from one family's hope into the hope of an entire village. After three days and two nights on a hard-seat train, wearing a pair of frayed canvas shoes, Lin Zhiqiang stepped onto the campus of Yenching University...