Female butcher Shen Sui'an accepts a wedding to bring good luck from the Lu family in order to save her grandfather, marrying the sickly young master Lu Jingyan. Relying on her supernatural strength to protect her husband, she successively repels the second uncle and his daughter who covet the family fortune, subdues assassins, and receives Lu Jingyan's help when her grandfather falls critically ill. When government soldiers surround the village, Lu Jingyan exposes his identity as a former chief grand secretary, strains himself to use martial arts to protect her and gets poisoned, and after detoxification resigns from office to live in seclusion. The couple stays together in the countryside, surrounded by children and grandchildren, and ultimately grows old together. It showcases a sincere love of sharing adversity and guarding one another, as well as the beauty of retiring to live a secluded pastoral life.