After dying in a car accident, Li Qingling is reborn into a poor peasant family in ancient times. A plague takes her father, and she, along with her pregnant mother and young younger brother, is driven out of the home by her harsh elder relatives, forced to live in a dilapidated thatched cottage with a severe shortage of food. To support her family, she relies on her modern knowledge to venture into the mountains to forage for food rations. Liu Zhimo, a scholar betrothed to her in earlier years, finds himself in dire straits; the two support one another, resist the schemes and harassment of their relatives, diligently manage their livelihood, and protect their family amidst the harsh countryside, step by step walking out of adversity.