Jiang Li unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of a novel she'd once read, inhabiting the body of a poor girl who shares her name. When the original girl was ten, her parents died one after another, and her heartless uncle sold her into a brothel. Fortunately, Jiang Li is exceptionally talented, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and blessed with breathtaking beauty. At thirteen, she uses her intelligence and resilience to strike a deal with the madam: she will perform, but never sell her body. Thus she struggles to survive in the brothel.
When the original girl is fifteen, she happens to meet Xue Wenyuan, a poor scholar. Xue is skilled at sweet-talking, and a few honeyed words are enough to soften her heart. She sells her body to pay for his studies, full of hope that once he passes the imperial exams, he will come back and rescue her from her misery. But instead, he returns with four or five thugs, assaults her, and murders her.
Jiang Li arrives half a year before the original girl meets Xue Wenyuan. Knowing what lies ahead, she steels her resolve to get justice for the original girl and make the scoundrel pay dearly. She also wants to see how that poor country scholar will ever pass the imperial exams without her financial support in this life.
Perhaps fate has taken pity on her. In this life, Jiang Li meets Lu Mingxuan, a hunter who falls for her at first sight and lays his whole heart before her.
