Xue Xiao, an award-winning actress from a family of doctors, has superb medical skills and a flawless face and figure. After dying from exhaustion while filming late into the night, she wakes up inside a period novel she often read, as the delicate heroine who shares her name. In the original story, she has a whole family of awful relatives, and her biological father controls the belongings her mother left behind years ago. At home, she has to endure the whims of her stepmother and the two sons and one daughter the woman brought with her. This leaves the heroine frail, and her cruel stepsister signs her up to be sent to the countryside. That is where the heroine meets the male lead. Thinking he is her only support, she devotes herself to Qin Yu, giving him everything she has, no matter what it is. But he treats her like a backup treasure chest, enjoying what he has while eyeing what he doesn't, and remains entangled with the wicked supporting female character, Xia Qingqing. Only when the heroine is dying of cancer does he finally come to his senses. The heroine and male lead then enjoy a sweet period together, and he claims to feel guilty. Using the huge inheritance left by the heroine's late mother, he rises to become one of the country's richest men. In the end, he finds a woman who looks just like the heroine and spends the rest of his life in misery. This time, Xue Xiao won't give everything away for other people. She'll ride the wave of the 1970s and make her fortune. Scumbag men and shameless women, she's here to settle accounts.
