In his past life, Chen Dashan, who died a miserable death, is reborn back to 1981, determined to turn over a new leaf and make up for his indebtedness to his disabled wife, Zhao Huilan. Facing the villains' oppression and slander, he is no longer cowardly, rising rapidly through deep mountain hunting, herb gathering, and business with his insights from his past life. He not only allows his wife to be well-fed and warmly clothed and cures her leg ailment, but also buys a house to settle down, leads villagers to get rich, and becomes a forest ranger after gaining the appreciation of the public security bureau chief for bravely fighting gangsters. To completely resolve the threat of the county town bully, he risks climbing cliffs to pick precious medicinal herbs, embarking on a legendary life of counterattacking and changing his destiny amidst perilous dangers.