(Farming + Fleeing Famine + Spirit Spring + Lucky Charm + Stockpiling Supplies) Xie Mengyao, a koi spirit who had cultivated for six hundred years only to fail her tribulation, transmigrates into the body of a vicious fake heiress.
She plans to turn over a new leaf, lie flat, and cultivate as an immortal.
Who could have guessed that the real heiress would drug her, while her unhinged live-in husband would try to poison her to death? Both want her gone.
The lucky koi has to battle the real heiress with her wits while also fending off one assassination attempt after another from her unhinged husband, Qin Kun.
Xie Mengyao is exhausted. She writes a separation agreement and gets ready to split up.
Expecting her home to be confiscated, she empties the county yamen and uses her portable space to buy and stockpile supplies.
She prepares for the coming torrential rains, drought, floods, and bitter cold.
Who knew that Xie Mengyao's supply shopping would make the whole city, the real heiress, and her adoptive mother laugh at her for being wasteful?
Xie Mengyao sneers and digs underground waterways before the rainstorms, channeling the water.
The real heiress mocks her.
Then Xie Mengyao digs canals to store water and builds windmills to irrigate the fields, winning the gratitude of the people.
The real heiress steals credit, grows jealous, and frames Xie Mengyao.
Before the bitter cold arrives, Xie Mengyao stocks up on charcoal and firewood to save the people.
The real heiress and her adoptive mother refuse to believe her, and later freeze to death.
Xie Mengyao says she can't bring herself to pity them. Once she has accumulated enough merit, she can leave this world.
After the famine years pass, the people proclaim Xie Mengyao a goddess.
When her unhinged husband returns to court, he helps her receive recognition, and she becomes the highly respected Grand State Preceptor.
On the day Xie Mengyao becomes a goddess, rosy clouds fill the sky and birds circle overhead.
Her unhinged husband has become emperor. Holding their child, he tugs at her sleeve and tells her to hurry up and leave.
Yet he goes to her temple, clutches her statue, and weeps as if the world were ending.