During a famine, Zhao Mancang is badly injured by a venomous snake while hunting, but his stepmother refuses to pay for his treatment. To raise money for medicine and save him, his childhood sweetheart, Li Yaqing, is forced to agree to marry the local bully, Sun Debiao. After surviving, Zhao Mancang awakens a century-old white tiger spirit companion and hunts a wild boar king in the mountains to raise the money needed to buy her freedom. Resentful, Sun Debiao secretly sabotages Zhao Mancang's hunting rifle, intending to get him killed. With the white tiger's help, Mancang ultimately kills the ferocious beast and exposes Sun Debiao's conspiracy in front of the security captain. At last, the two lovers are united.