The protagonist, a renowned master of traditional Chinese medicine and elite special agent who traveled back in time to a young village girl in the 1980s who had just drowned herself in a river. She is smart, resourceful, and has a dream of becoming the richest person in the country. She refuses to be forced into marriage and negotiates for half the betrothal money. She discovers that her stepmother Li Qiuhua sewed fake paper scraps instead of real money into her coat.