In the bitter winter of 1984, Shen Qiuyan saves a spiritual white deer whose tears can turn into rare ginseng of the world. However, her husband Wang Daqiang and the evil mother-in-law, consumed by greed, capture the white deer and lock it in the cellar, depriving it of water and food to force it to shed blood tears and spawn demonic blood ginseng in a delusion of becoming ten-thousand-yuan households. Brutally beaten and driven out of the house with nothing, Shen Qiuyan desperately takes the dying white deer away and hides in a dilapidated temple in the back mountain. The Wang family trades the toxic ginseng for money, but it causes fatalities, bringing karmic retribution and the ruin of their family. Refusing to rely on windfall blessings, Shen Qiuyan uses her own hands to reclaim barren mountains, sets up a women's mutual aid group, and leads rural women who have suffered grievances to engage in medicinal herb cultivation.