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"Laiyin county 莱茵县 [Lying Town], somewhere in China, the present day. Thirty years ago mysterious solar storms invested thousands of people with incredible superpowers; but those same storms also exposed the Solar System to attack by aliens. A young hero emerged in Laiyin county called Wang Changhai (Bai Jingting) and after 20 years of war the aliens were beaten back. Wang Changhai is returning home for the first time in 20 years, and Xia Mu (Wei Xiang), chairman of the Superhero Association of Laiyin County, is preparing a welcome dinner for him that involves many other local superheroes. When Wang Changhai arrives, he is immediately challenged by Hu Zuochang (Yu Yang), the cocky brother-in-law of corrupt county head Wang Xinling (Zhang Guoqiang). Hu Zuochang falsely claims to have superpowers as well, and because of his family connection no one except Wang Changhai dares to stand up to him. Wang Changhai announces he has returned home to set up a Superhero Combat Squad, in case the aliens return, and he invites volunteers from the assembled superheroes to audition the next day. Meanwhile, he goes home to his mother (Zhao Haiyan), who constantly puts him in his place. Next day a drunk Hu Zuochang disrupts the auditions and gives Wang Changhai a dinner invitation from Wang Xinling. Xia Mu advises Wang Changhai to accept it, as the Superhero Association depends on the county head’s support. Because of Wang Changhai’s directness and lack of guile, the dinner initially goes badly, despite Xia Mu secretly sending him advice through the ether, “decoding” what the two-faced Wang Xinling really means. But then Wang Xinling changes tack and pretends to respect Wang Changhai’s honesty. He agrees to support the idea of a Superhero Combat Squad, as long as Wang Changhai fills in the necessary paperwork to legally set up the squad. Xia Mu says it’s just a delaying tactic but Wang Changhai goes along with it, despite encountering day after day of soul-destroying bureaucracy. Finally, his mother, who knows how the town operates, finds out that Wang Xinling is secretly blocking all the paperwork. Wang Changhai confronts Wang Xinling, who pretends to be insulted by the accusations and then has him detained for several days for storming into the county offices. When he’s released, Wang Changhai cuts his hair and abandons his superhero costume, trying to fit in with the ways of normal humans. He befriends Wang Xinling, and even gets drunk at a dinner with Zhao Jinfeng (Su Xiaoding), the corrupt young chairman of coal-mining company Jinfeng Group, which accounts for 30% of local GDP but is ruining the environment and weakening the county’s terrain with reckless underground excavation. Zhao Jinfeng has Wang Xinling in his pocket, and Wang Changhai starts going along with the whole corrupt set-up, to Xia Mu’s dismay. But then Wang Xinling’s loyal secretary, Jin (Huang Cailun), decides one day that he can’t take any more of his boss’ two-faced behaviour."

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