Qu You, a junior employee at a pharmaceutical company, finds an antique ring on her way home from work. When the ring recognizes her as its owner, Qu You transmigrates to an unknown time a thousand years in the past, becoming the only girl in the Qu family of Qinghe Village.
Faced with food barely enough to keep hunger at bay and walls that whistle in the wind, Qu You resolutely takes matters into her own hands and decides to support her family.
She establishes a village school, opens shops, grows rice, and starts factories. With the help of Yun Luo, the spirit residing in her ring's space, Qu You not only leads her family to a comfortable life, but also helps the people in the surrounding villages prosper.
Her talents attract the attention of the Ninth Prince, a cold-hearted and scheming man who wastes no time in marking Qu You as his own.
【One】
Chu Yu: “The Bridge of Helplessness, what can it do to me? Should I cross it, or should I not? Miss Qu, can you tell me who came up with this couplet that defeated the scholars of Qin?”
Qu You: “This humble woman doesn't know.”
Chu Yu: “What a poor memory I have. Miss Qu is a guest. How can you sit on the couch? Why don't we get into bed instead?”
【Two】
Qu You: “Let's open a shop together. We'll split the profits forty-sixty, with sixty for me and forty for you.”
Chu Yu: “Fine, but our shop has to be called ‘Chu-Qu Home Goods.’”
Qu You: Chu Qu? Get lost...
【Three】
Chu Yu: “I am Chu's God of War. If an enemy state invades, I must lead the army myself. Protecting our home and defending our country is what a man should do. For the people, and for you, trust me. I will come back alive.”
When an enemy state invades, Qu You resolutely decides to follow Chu Yu to the battlefield and help devise strategies.
She provides uniforms and supplies provisions, giving everything she has.
At the critical moment of the war, Qu You plays the qin and sings on a mountaintop. Her rendition of “Loyalty to the Country” greatly boosts the Chu army's morale. From then on, the troops are fired up and never suffer another defeat.
See how the goofy Qu You helps her father become a great Confucian scholar, and how she rises from a nobody to the goddess of mercy in the people's hearts and the Protector of the Nation in the imperial court.
