At the dawn of the 1980s economic reform, Lin Tiezhu, a struggling temporary worker at the state-owned Red Star Machinery Factory, is humiliated by the arrogant deputy workshop director, Zhao Dapeng. Pushed into a corner, Lin Tiezhu bets his entire future on repairing a completely scrapped generator—only to unexpectedly awaken a supernatural ability to control and communicate with machinery.
From that moment on, Lin Tiezhu dismantles every sabotage and trap laid by the powerful Zhao family. Armed with his tech-controlling powers, he crushes the competition to win the Provincial Technical Championship, shattering the Zhao family's monopoly over the factory. Ultimately, he cures his father's blindness and builds his own industrial empire, writing a legendary saga of a grassroots worker rising to become a titan of the era.
