In the bitter winter of 1985, Zhao Changhe, a young man from Northeast China, is reborn at the moment when an exorbitant bride price is driving him to desperation. In his previous life, he spent his family's entire fortune to marry, only for his parents to die tragically, his younger sister to die young, and himself to be manipulated by others for the rest of his life. In this life, he tears up the marriage agreement and decisively calls off the engagement on the spot. Starting with a street stall, he saves Zhou Xiaoyan and joins forces with her to build a better future. He takes over a state-owned canning factory and brings it back from the brink of collapse, strikes back forcefully against his enemies and those who try to suppress him, protects his family, and leads his fellow villagers to prosperity, writing a legendary tale of rebirth and triumph.