Song Qiuyue and her best friend Xu Lewei both time-travel into a cannon-fodder novel set in the 1980s. Song Qiuyue becomes the notorious eldest daughter-in-law of the Lu family, and Xu Lewei becomes the stepmother of the Lu family. To escape the tragic ending of the original work, the two band together to survive. They use modern knowledge to start businesses in clothing and catering. In the process, they develop romantic feelings with the soldier Lu Zhaoyuan, neutralize the conspiracies of business rivals, help the Lu family's younger siblings find their respective places of belonging, break free from the predetermined tragic destiny in the book, and forge a new life belonging to them in the 1980s.