Seventy-year-old Granny Lin spends the 200 wen she had saved to buy grain on a red jade qilin statue that follows her wherever she goes. The creature is Chibao, a divine beast she rescued from a snowstorm thirty years ago. Gravely wounded, it transformed into jade and slept for years until it finally found its benefactor. The qilin's divine flames refine a rare crimson-glow porcelain, attracting the schemes of unscrupulous merchant Qian Wancai. Through theft, false accusations, and a devastating kiln fire, Chibao risks its life to protect Granny Lin, helping her fulfill her dreams and rekindling the fires of the old pottery kilns throughout Yaoxi Village.