Zhao Guoqing is reborn on the day he returns to the 1980s to deliver the betrothal gifts. He sees through his fiancée Chen Furong's scheme to pass off her unborn child as his and immediately calls off the engagement. Standing firm against family pressure, he splits from his family and quickly builds a fortune by hunting in the mountains, trading mountain produce, and starting a fresh-food business. He raises his younger siblings and improves their lives, while gradually growing closer to educated youths Liu Yuqing and Xia Ruolan. After Chen Furong repeatedly fails to find another man to take responsibility for her pregnancy, one crisis follows another. Zhao Guoqing secures a homestead and builds a large family compound, and his career and love life begin to flourish, unaware that an even greater storm is approaching.