Shen Zhiwei, the daughter of a disgraced official, awakens the supernatural ability to communicate with animals while being exiled to the northern frontier. To clear her family's name, she volunteers to marry Lu Zheng, a disabled soldier. She commands beasts to gather medicinal herbs and cures her husband's old injuries, helping him rise from a menial soldier to General Who Guards the North. Together, they thwart the numerous assassination plots orchestrated by Chancellor Zhao Chong, gather irrefutable evidence, and return to the capital. In the end, they bring down the powerful minister and overturn the wrongful conviction. Shen Zhiwei is granted the prestigious title of First-Rank Imperial Lady, and the whole family is reunited.