Song Binglan and her best friend Ye Zhizhi transmigrate into a farming novel as a warring mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
In the original story, the mother-in-law, Song Binglan, favors the eldest and third branches of the family while exploiting the second.
Her eldest son, Su Chengjin, is lazy and gluttonous, while her third son, Su Jinyuan, has spent ten years only managing to pass the lowest level of the imperial examinations.
Yet her neglected second son, Su Mingyang, went to war in his father's place years ago and earned money to support the whole family.
Unfortunately, Su Mingyang injured his leg on the battlefield and could only return home a cripple, where the old matriarch tormented him mercilessly.
In the novel, Ye Zhizhi is a transmigrator with a spirit-spring space. She helps the second branch of the Su family split from the family and cut ties, after which they live happily ever after.
Meanwhile, the old matriarch is tormented to death, the other branches fall into decline, and their stories end in ruin.
But since the two best friends transmigrated into the book together, Song Binglan immediately joins her friend in the second branch to split from the family. From then on, the two women team up and turn the farming village upside down.