Chu Yue, a master restorer of cultural relics, is transported into a period novel as the ill-fated foil: an orphan from the countryside, forced to marry a comatose military officer to bring him good fortune. Her in-laws think she brings bad luck, while her uncle’s family bullies her mercilessly.
After binding to the Merit Live-Streaming System, Chu Yue starts salvaging the junk villagers throw away. A chipped bowl becomes a Song-dynasty Jian ware masterpiece with iridescent glaze. A rotten wooden hairpin, once cleaned, turns out to be imperial-gift golden-thread nanmu from a previous dynasty. A chipped plate proves to be a rare Ru ware treasure... Future viewers flood her livestream, begging to bid ten billion. She exchanges merit points for ration coupons, meat coupons, and industrial coupons, and her life gets better by the day.
Everyone laughs at her for neglecting proper work to collect trash, until the director of the National Museum personally comes to her door with an official order recruiting her to the capital.
But the biggest twist is yet to come: her husband, comatose for three years, suddenly moves a finger. The first thing he does after waking is log into her livestream and, using the familiar ID of its top donor, quietly send her a Cosmic Spaceship.
