Li Shuyang transmigrates into a book as a poor young man in a northern Chinese village. His only initial wish is to give his wife, Wang Mengran, a better life. Through harvesting wheat, raising chickens and pigs, building an earthen kiln, and experimenting with mugwort incense coils, he gradually improves their dilapidated courtyard home. Facing a shortage of work points, misunderstandings from family members, and undercurrents of trouble in the village, he and his wife support each other through thick and thin. They also decide to send his younger sister, Li Mei, back to school. But strange noises begin coming from an empty tiled-roof house, and an even greater crisis is quietly approaching.