The protagonist, a resilient woman living in Stone Fort Village during wartime. Three years ago her husband went for corvée labor and was reported dead. After Northern Rong soldiers occupied the area and Daqi soldiers drove them out, her husband returned as an official but brought back a pregnant concubine. Framed by the concubine's fabricated fall, Ruan Jinxiang was banished to a dilapidated thatched hut with her daughter Yaya. She has two children: son Tiedan and daughter Yaya. Kind, loving, and enduring, she secretly receives help from villagers. While gathering food in the mountains, she falls and bleeds on a copper bracelet she found, which transforms into jade and transports her to the modern world.
