In rural Northeast China in 1993, Lin Xiumei is reborn three days before a devastating blizzard. In her previous life, her mother-in-law seized her house and refused to help when disaster struck, leaving her six-year-old daughter Xiaoman to freeze to death in a drafty woodshed. This time, when her mother-in-law and brother-in-law pressure her into signing an agreement to sell the house, Lin Xiumei plays along. She agrees to give up the dangerous house, whose main beam is already cracked, in exchange for the abandoned Qingshibao fortress. She has three days to repair it and stockpile coal. When the blizzard arrives early and cuts off the village, the new house her relatives fought to claim collapses first. Her brother-in-law is exposed for stealing village coal and breaking into homes. Lin Xiumei also takes in elderly villagers and children. After the disaster, she leases Qingshibao and starts a mountain-produce business, openly sharing her accounts and helping the villagers prosper. At last, she gives her daughter a home that no one can ever drive them out of.