Zhou Yuan, an alcoholic who squandered his family's fortune, is reborn in 1992, just as his wife is about to divorce him and take their daughter away. Their home is bare, and they are buried in debt. Haunted by the regret of freezing to death beneath a bridge in his previous life, he vows to give up alcohol and start from nothing with his expertise in agricultural machinery. He stands up to local bullies and exposes his superior's schemes, earning the trust of the entire township through his technical skills. From a hopeless drunkard, he rises to become the county's leading agricultural machinery expert, protects his wife and daughter, and leads the whole village toward prosperity.