Guo Jin, a modern-day security guard, works at a company and is so broke he can barely make ends meet. He is hounded by debt collectors every day and has to hide wherever he can. One day, as a thunderstorm rages, he is struck dead by a bolt of lightning while holding an umbrella over his boss. He transmigrates into the body of a village idiot in a peasant family in the Tang dynasty, five hundred years in the past. Discovering that there are countless ways to make money in ancient times, he sets out on a path to amass a fortune...