Qin Ningyin is reborn on the day the newly crowned top scholar parades through the streets. In her previous life, she was hopelessly infatuated with Pei Zhaoqi, only to have him join forces with her stepmother to seize the dowry and fortune left by her biological mother, leaving her to die miserably. In this life, she discovers that Pei Zhaoqi has also been reborn. She joins forces with Song Qingran, who has likewise returned with memories of her previous life, to ruin Pei Zhaoqi's chance at fame. Together with her maternal grandfather's Shen family, she exposes her stepmother's embezzlement of the family inheritance and fights to reclaim her family's wealth.