In the 1980s, Tian Lamei jumped into the river to resist an arranged marriage and was rescued by Zhou Tiezhu, a little tinker. She bravely and independently chose to marry Zhou Tiezhu. After marriage, facing her brother-in-law's coveting of the ancestral mill and the various entanglements brought by her family's preference for boys over girls, Lamei relied on her wisdom and diligence to win back the mill and started a tofu business. She helped her younger siblings, resolved clan and neighborhood conflicts, led the villagers to struggle together, built a new house with her own hands, and her family reunited in harmony, living out her own happy life.