Modern top-tier lawyer Mu Xiaolian suddenly travels back in time to a year of famine, becoming a pitiful young girl whose biological father sold her to a seventy-year-old man for fifty taels of silver. Armed with her legal expertise, she returns with a new resolve. Facing greedy and shameless relatives from the Mu family, bullying local gentry, and malicious gossip, Mu Xiaolian refuses to endure mistreatment any longer. With a single legal petition, she brings evildoers before the magistrate. Fortunately, she finds companionship and love with Shen Zhim u, a general who has become a convict-slave. Together, they reclaim wasteland, cultivate crops, promote improved seeds, and lead the people of Shenyuan Village in surviving the famine. Wielding the law as her blade, she protects herself and her loved ones, carving out a path to survival and prosperity amid a barren and chaotic age.