Wen Yichu, a 28-year-old career-obsessed workaholic, watches a ridiculous transmigration novel and dies laughing. When she opens her eyes, she's a seven-year-old girl, and her own father is about to sell her to a brothel.
No panic. She sets her sights on another buyer in the village and talks her way into the Cui family: "Dad, didn't you say you'd give me a good life?"
And so begins her plan to raise a young lady: teaching her math, how to read accounts, and how to think clearly, until the sweet little girl becomes the brightest flower in the capital. She drives off a scumbag with a campaign of gossip, fights rich young ladies by giving them a taste of their own medicine, and when the second branch comes mooching, she sends in the Imperial Guards of the Capital.
She saves up shops and houses, and picks up a handsome fiance along the way. He looks just like her favorite actor from her past life. Just as she turns a melodramatic plot into a sweet farming story, however...
Dongbao, the guard, returns alive from the battlefield with a lucky charm in his hand and catches her with their fingers intertwined.
Her fiance Zhang He receives a secret letter: "Ling, don't forget your mission."
In the outskirts of the city in May, men in black burst out, targeting the Princess Consort of the Prince of Zhennan. Wen Yichu puts on the young lady's finery and lets her hair down.
"Runzhi, live well."
The clear-headed female protagonist is sold out at the very beginning, but she seizes opportunities through her own wisdom and turns her life around.