Yin Tao, a career-minded executive, died from overwork and became a girl in a poor farming family in ancient times.
The family is poor, and her father is a scholar who has repeatedly failed the exams and lives away from home to study.
Fortunately, Yin Tao’s mother supports her unproductive husband and their three children with her exquisite embroidery skills.
Her eldest sister is gentle and capable, and her embroidery is even better than their mother’s.
Her little brother is mature beyond his years, only acting like a child around Yin Tao.
For a while, Yin Tao thought life was peaceful and secure, until her mother nearly died giving birth prematurely to her younger sister.
Meanwhile, her scumbag father was using the household money to support his mistress, then brought the woman and her son home as if he owned the place.
The mistress even urges him to make Yin Tao’s mother a concubine so she can keep earning money for them?
Yin Tao’s temper flares. “You think you’re worthy?”
Yin Tao exposes their plot and gives them a thorough comeuppance, but they refuse to give up.
With no allies to turn to, Yin Tao stops the carriage of Feng Wansu, a noblewoman from the capital.
She pledges herself to Miss Feng and helps her return to the capital to fight for her place in the household and turn her fortunes around.
In return, Miss Feng protects Yin Tao and her widowed mother and siblings.
After moving to the capital, Yin Tao helps Miss Feng marry into the prince’s household as she has always wished, while Yin Tao becomes the newlywed wife of Ye Xiuwen, the iron-faced general.
The refined young ladies of the capital are heartbroken. “General Ye has it so rough. He was forced to marry that country girl who served the princess consort.”
Meanwhile, Yin Tao is busy opening an embroidery shop, a gold shop, and a textile factory. She leads her family to success and turns down Ye Xiuwen’s marriage proposals again and again.
