Ji Mingyi transmigrates into a political intrigue novel and finds herself living under the roof of the Zong family. All she wants is to save enough money to take her younger brother and escape far away. Unexpectedly, Zong Xian, the Zong family's second master, mistakes her for his blind date and falls for her at first sight, taking her away from her fiancé, Xie Huaiyu. Left with no choice, she enters the Zong household and secretly makes plans. With the help of Concubine Yu, she sends her younger brother away, then obtains a fake-death medicine from a monk and escapes on her wedding night. Believing she has already left, Zong Xian is overcome with a sense of loss. Meanwhile, Ji Mingyi changes her name and identity and travels with Xie Huaiyu to Qingzhou, where she opens a pharmacy and settles into a peaceful life. When an epidemic breaks out, she uses her medical skills to protect an entire town. What she doesn't know is that the imperial envoy sent by the court to provide disaster relief is none other than the man she went to such lengths to leave behind.