Modern-day girl Xu Jing'an travels through time into the world of a novel set in the 1960s, where she discovers that she is destined to be the stepping stone in the life of the original heroine, Xu Duoduo, eventually losing her job and dying miserably in the countryside. Armed with foreknowledge of the plot and a magical portable space, she takes matters into her own hands. She trades her job position for capital, escapes her family's exploitation, secures a permanent job, purchases her own home, and chooses her own partner to build a stable family. Step by step, she rewrites her tragic fate and lives an independent life.