A hospital worker transmigrates to a parallel world in a bygone era. To escape an arranged engagement forced on her by her unscrupulous grandmother, she hides in the mountains. The male lead is a military commander who is drugged by his opponents during a mission. They meet in the mountains and become intimate. Because of his profession and the way people thought in that era, he believes he has to take responsibility. The heroine, with her modern mindset, thinks one intimate encounter doesn't have to mean anything and refuses Cai's proposal of marriage. After coming down from the mountain, Xie continues looking for someone suitable to marry, including an educated youth assigned to the production team, a schoolteacher, and a worker from town. But every time, the male lead comes up with a scheme to ruin her chances at romance.