Tencent officially announced the sci-fi web drama "Rural Teacher" adapted from Liu Cixin's novel of the same name

Tencent Video officially announced the sci-fi web drama "Rural Teachers", with the caption: "Across the stars, exploring human nature, under the stars, the echoes of civilization interweaving science fiction and reality." The drama is adapted from Liu Cixin's short story of the same name, produced by Tencent Video.

The online drama adaptation of "Rural Teachers" also sparked heated discussions among netizens. Some netizens said: "Write the script well, produce well, cast well, don't waste Liu's good IP." "Either shoot it seriously or don't shoot it, don't rely on IP to make quick money!" "It's just a short story, how many episodes will it take to make a TV series? It won't be stretched out and filled with advertisements, right?"

"Rural Teacher" tells the story of Li Baoku, a rural teacher, teaching in Gujing Village. The terminally ill teacher still asked the ignorant children to memorize the three laws of Newtonian mechanics that they could not understand when he was dying. After this highly saturated scene of realism, the story suddenly jumped to the interstellar war: the godlike aliens were identifying the civilization level of the planets along the way while cleaning the battlefield. The children who were randomly selected as samples of the earth were indifferent when faced with a series of test questions. It was not until they correctly answered Newton's laws that the earth was proved to be worth saving. In this almost ironic way, mankind escaped a disaster, but no one knew that all the credit belonged to a Chinese teacher who died quietly in the most barren corner of the planet.