Xie Yushu, a modern military doctor, travels back in time and becomes a peasant woman who was beaten to death for grabbing water during the famine years. When she wakes up, she regains the water source. Faced with her husband Xiao Yi and her two stepsons, she decides to take over the family. In years of severe drought, people go into the mountains to find water, compete with wild beasts for water, collect medicinal materials, dig yams, and hunt game to gradually improve their lives. On the way, he rescued an assassinated imperial envoy and was involved in a major case of corrupt officials embezzling disaster relief food. With her wisdom and courage, she assisted the imperial envoys in overthrowing corrupt officials, and her younger brother and Liu brothers became officials. After returning home, she used an iron fist to deal with the troubles made by her eccentric parents-in-law and extreme relatives, and at the same time prepared to treat Xiao Yi's leg. Xie Yushu stood firm in the lean years and transformed from a young daughter-in-law who allowed others to bully her into a real master who controls her own destiny.
