During the devastating blizzard of 1982, Gu Lin witnesses his wife and daughter being bullied by his family. In a fit of rage, he overturns the dinner table, presses his bloodied fingerprint onto a severance agreement, and cuts ties with his relatives. Carrying the guilt of his past life and a newly awakened mountain wildlife encyclopedia in his mind, he takes his wife and daughter into the blizzards of the Changbai Mountains to fight for survival, starting in an abandoned underground shelter. With his supernatural ability to perceive all things, he sets traps to blind the wild boar king and uses a sliding tackle across the ice to kill a rampaging black bear, turning deadly crises into bountiful game. He even adopts an intelligent sable to keep his daughter company. Winter has yet to pass, and ferocious beasts still lurk deep in the mountains. In this cruel wilderness of forests and snow, the man who was once bullied by everyone must carve out a path to survival for his family with nothing but a woodcutter's knife.