Lin Jinxiu, a 21st-century culinary nutritionist, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a timid second daughter-in-law in a poor northern village in 1975. In the Li family, her mother-in-law bullies her, her husband is away, and the family owns almost nothing. Faced with her sharp-tongued mother-in-law's torment, her sister-in-law's envy, and crushing poverty, she refuses to wallow in self-pity.
With supplies from her spatial realm and her modern knowledge, Lin Jinxiu first improves their meals with wild vegetables and secures her footing. Then she saves a sent-down youth with an ancestral medicinal salve and earns goodwill. She also perfects a sesame candy recipe, starting with a stall at the market and eventually supplying the cooperative store. Step by step, she earns her first pot of gold and gradually turns her family's fortunes around.
