In the early 1980s, rural girl Qin Shulan came to Ningzhou with an old marriage contract, hoping to find her fiancé Zhou Shichang who worked in a machinery factory, but she was met with cold glares at the factory gate and discovered their relationship was different from what she had imagined. In the strange city, settling down and making a living both became difficulties. Bringing her family's brocade weaving craft, she looked for opportunities at a tailor shop and the night market, and got to know Wei Zheng, who understood technology. Facing identity prejudice, human warmth and coldness, and business tests, Qin Shulan strived to guard her own dignity and figured out how to bring traditional craft into a new life.