The young girl A Ying's lantern workshop faces a debt crisis; if she cannot produce silver, her ancestral shop will be taken away. Coincidentally, the city's lantern festival begins, and the grand prize bounty can resolve her urgent need. A Ying does not bow to adversity; relying on the lantern-making craft taught by her father, and with the enthusiastic help of the youth Wen Zhou, neighbor Aunt Tong, and Xiao Yutou, she works day and night to rush the making of the carp main lantern. The rival Manager Qi harbors malicious intentions and intentionally sabotages the lanterns, but everyone pulls together to overcome the crisis. At the lantern festival, A Ying's lantern art wins the grand prize, and she also waits back for her blind and separated father, Old Wu.