In Qinghe Village in the 1980s, the fiery and spirited Lin Shengnan has had four engagements broken off, becoming a woman everyone in the village avoids. A matchmaker arranges her marriage to Wu Zhiheng, a gentle and refined community-funded teacher. After the wedding, she faces a fault-finding mother-in-law and an unruly younger brother-in-law without either backing down or lashing out, resolving the family’s conflicts. She spots a business opportunity and gets the whole family into the pickled-vegetable trade. She helps her brother-in-law mend his ways and supports her husband’s career. After a period of adjustment, she and her mother-in-law reconcile. Working together, the family builds a thriving life and finds both familial closeness and a happy marriage.