Qi Hongdou, a modern young woman, accidentally travels back to the 1960s and becomes the troublesome Zhao family's elderly matriarch. She is also bound to a survival system. Each of her children and grandchildren has their own shortcomings, and family conflicts abound. Refusing to put up with everything meekly, she establishes household rules by combining kindness with authority, uses system-provided supplies to improve the family's livelihood, protects younger relatives who have been wronged, and resolves domestic disputes. Within the family, she reforms their conduct; outside it, she stands up for her loved ones. She leads the entire extended family through hardship and gradually helps them build a harmonious, stable life.