Jiang Chen, a rescue team member, is swept into a deep-sea whirlpool while saving someone and unexpectedly travels back to a year of famine, inhabiting the body of a notorious rascal from Sanshan Village. The original owner had stolen all the family's winter provisions to impress the woman he admired, only to drink himself into a stupor and freeze to death in the snow. He leaves Jiang Chen with an empty house and a family of gaunt, starving relatives. Determined to protect the village, Jiang Chen ventures into the mountains alone to hunt down the Wolf King. After facing the beast in the snow for an entire day, he finally defeats this terrible threat through intelligence and patience, saving the whole village.