Modern web novel author Lin Xia time-traveled to the 1960s, becoming the Lin family's second daughter who was treated as a free laborer by her family and even wanted to be traded for a bride price. To escape her original family, she rescued herself with her portable courtyard, impulsively married railway worker He Lin, moved her household registration out, and moved into the railway family quarters. After marriage, Lin Xia built a career on translation, and He Lin protected his wife all the way, gradually becoming each other's most solid reliance in the ordinary daily life of firewood, rice, oil, and salt.