"Phoenix Returns to the Wutong Tree" is a light comedy about rural life, with a warm and healing humanistic feeling. Gu Zhicheng (played by Tian Lei) has been determined to get out of the poor mountain valley since he was a child, and work hard to earn a bright future. When he was about to go abroad to study with his girlfriend, he received the news that his father was seriously ill. In the process of returning to his hometown to take his father for treatment, he met his childhood friends Yu Hang (played by Zhu Xuan) and Guozi (played by Wang Xudong). One of them is a rural news officer with many fans, and the other has become a poor household in poverty. At the same time, Gu Zhicheng also experienced the dilemma of the villagers' chickens, ducks, fruits and vegetables that could not be sold. After some inner struggle, Gu Zhicheng decided to stay, and together with his two friends, he used live broadcasting to help the villagers open sales channels, and staged a warm story full of inspiration and laughter.