At thirty, Lin Jiuyuan was desperate to escape her mother's attempts to force her into marriage. Using overtime on New Year's Eve as an excuse, she listened to her mother's nagging as she ambled over to the shop where she usually took breaks and casually picked up a Republican-era romance novel to read.
As the midnight bells rang, something strange happened to her. When she regained consciousness, she was in another world, in the Republican era, and had become a slave being put up for sale. There, she met the man from the novel...
