An Older Woman Transmigrates to Ancient Times to Open a Nursing Home for Diabetes Patients

A feel-good story of blood sugar management and redemption, charity work, senior wellness and blood sugar control, protection from hypoglycemia in old age, and light comedy

Late one night, an older woman falls asleep on a stone bench in her residential complex and has a wonderful dream:

She becomes a young woman named Lin Wan in ancient times and arrives at a care home for the elderly suffering from diabetes. There, she develops her own blood sugar-friendly meals to help twenty-two residents manage their condition. When local gentryman Li tries to force her into marriage and fails, he falsely accuses her of abusing the elderly. In court, the care home residents present steamed buns filled with three kinds of diced ingredients as evidence on Lin Wan’s behalf. Lin Wan tests Li on the spot and discovers that he has diabetes. The county magistrate sentences Li to three months in prison for making a false accusation and orders Lin Wan to deliver blood sugar-friendly meals to him. In prison, Li trades scraps of evidence that the Second Madam of the Lin household poisoned the First Madam for a bun. Lin Wan is summoned to the palace to treat the empress’s diabetes, but flees back to the care home to escape the crown prince’s advances. She entrusts the home to the real Lin Wan.

The real Lin Wan takes over delivering the blood sugar-friendly meals. Moved by her kindness, Li reveals crucial evidence. At a mass grave, the real Lin Wan finds her mother’s grave by following the scent of begonias and forgives Li. After his release, Li is overcome with remorse and confesses everything to his son, Li Jin. Li Jin brings a coroner to exhume the First Madam’s body, examine it, and move her grave, clearing the deceased woman’s name. The emperor rewards them with a hundred taels of gold. The real Lin Wan expands the care home, and Li donates eighteen courtyards to shelter a hundred elderly people with diabetes who have nowhere to live. Profits from selling the blood sugar-friendly meals support the residents, and the care home grows into Linquan’s headquarters for elderly people with diabetes. They then open a branch in the capital.

The older woman wakes from her dream and goes home. She helps her husband manage his hypoglycemia, and together they help Aunt Wang’s son establish his career and dispel prejudice in their residential complex.