Lin Mo accidentally time-traveled to 1978, becoming a impoverished, heavily indebted, and notoriously disreputable village rascal. After a reputation crisis, he decided to protect the gentle and aloof educated youth Mu Qinghan, from quitting gambling and turning over a new leaf, gathering medicinal herbs and hunting in the mountains, to building a house, doing business, and protecting his wife to support his family, step by step turning a ragged life into a hopeful new life in the impoverished mountain village.