Modern-day Su Lan travels into a textile factory in the 1970s and firmly refuses to be sent to the countryside as part of the educated youth relocation program. When others try to steal her job placement and seize what rightfully belongs to her, even as her own older brother repeatedly takes their side, she fights back fiercely, reclaims everything she is entitled to, and punishes the greedy. Determined to build her own career, Su Lan puts her talents to work in the Publicity Department, steadily earning promotions and higher pay through her abilities and hard work. She is determined to carve out a world and a future of her own.