Reborn as a villainess destined to lose her family, Shen Qinghe decisively flees her arranged marriage and hides away at a rural estate, hoping only to farm and stay alive. She improves farming tools and experiments with sweet potatoes, but this draws the attention of Lu Mingyuan, a scholarly traveler of mysterious origins, who edges ever closer. When pushy marriage-minded servants, local gentry trying to force tenants off the land, and spies from the court all close in on her fields, she realizes that the embroidery patterns and crops she casually improved have already drawn her into the heart of a scandal involving the Jiangnan weaving industry and the struggle between old and new factions. On the eve of sweeping change, farming turns out to be the most dangerous way to survive.
