The story takes place in the ancient countryside. After the accidental death of her father Xie Jian, a peasant girl named Xie Shiyu was forced to leave the house with her weak mother Luo Shi and her young siblings Xie Ping and Xie An. Xie Shiyu was raised as a boy by his father since he was a child. He was literate in reading, went hunting in the mountains, and had a valiant and decisive personality. After her father died, the second and third brothers of the Xie family wanted to marry her to the foolish son of the Liu family in exchange for money. Cheng Feng, her childhood sweetheart, and her son even designed to frame her for evil. After Xie Shiyu discovered the conspiracy, he exposed Cheng Feng in public, forced the Xie family to separate at knifepoint, and took his family to live in an abandoned courtyard at the end of the village, and then embarked on the road to make an independent living.
