The protagonist, an elderly widow who raised three sons and a daughter after her husband Song Chengye died early. In her past life, she was kind and generous, handing over all family silver to her eldest son's household and treating her eldest daughter-in-law Hu Cuihua almost like a daughter. She was callously abandoned by her eldest son Song Dazhi and daughter-in-law during a famine flight, fell into a dried ditch, and died. Her blood touched a wooden hairpin, which absorbed it and triggered her rebirth. After waking up in her younger body on the day she learned of her second son's death, she resolves to protect the second branch and the unborn grandchild, slapping Hu Cuihua and asserting her authority.
