Reborn in 1983, in the snowy wilderness of Northeast China, special forces soldier Gu Yue awakens in the body of a frail, sickly man. His home is bare, and his new wife, Jiang Yan, and sister-in-law, Jiang He, are often bullied. Then he unexpectedly gains a pocket dimension where he can store game and stockpile medicinal herbs. With his hunting bow in hand, roe deer and wild boar are easy catches. He renovates the old house, plants crabapple trees, fights off villains, and earns work points, simmering their bitter, freezing days into a pot fragrant with meat. When his rifle points into the blizzard and cooking smoke drifts over the tiled roof, he forges a new life of his own amid the forests and snowy plains, with grit and tenderness.
