Reborn in the 1970s she was taken by her rough-looking ex-husband again.

Jiang Yan wakes up in 1976, having been reborn to the day she was eighteen years old. In her previous life, she was drugged by her biological mother and stepfather and sold to a corrupt official named Section Chief Zhu in exchange for their family securing better jobs and avoiding hard labor in the countryside. After enduring abuse and eventually committing suicide to free her husband, Huo Ying, from her burden, she returns to this critical moment with a second chance. She is trapped in a room with Section Chief Zhu, who is attempting to assault her. Using her knowledge of the future, Jiang Yan manipulates the situation by demanding that the man swear he will have children with her, buying herself time until her biological parents arrive.

When the door is kicked open, Jiang Yan strikes Section Chief Zhu with a flashlight, but her stepfather, Shi Ronggui, rushes in next. In a twist of fate, Jiang Yan mistakes Huo Ying for her stepfather and knocks him unconscious with a stool. She quickly realizes her error when she sees Huo Ying’s handsome features. Her biological mother and stepfather drag the unconscious Huo Ying into an adjacent room to frame him as a wild man who attacked them. Jiang Yan, refusing to be victimized again, fights back using self-defense techniques Huo Ying had taught her in her past life. She injures her stepfather and exposes the couple’s scheme when neighbors gather, accusing them of hooliganism due to the commotion.

The neighborhood committee female cadre and Public Security Director Zhao arrive to investigate. Shi Ronggui attempts to slander Huo Ying as a spy, claiming Jiang Yan’s adoptive parents have overseas connections and were arrested. However, Director Zhao reveals that Huo Ying is a decorated combat hero, not a spy. Faced with this revelation and the angry crowd, the biological parents are forced to back down. The female cadre orders the family to register Jiang Yan’s household with theirs within three days so she can apply for re-education in the countryside, a destination the family desperately wants to avoid for their own children.

Jiang Yan, aware that her adoptive parents are in danger and need her help, seeks a way to prevent her own exile while securing funds. Huo Ying intercepts her and demands she marry him, arguing that as a military dependent, she would be exempt from going to the countryside. He fulfills her past-life wish by kneeling and proposing, but Jiang Yan rejects him, determined not to drag him down into her tragic fate again. She insists they have no future relationship and refuses to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau with him.

Back at the Shi household, Jiang Yan confronts her biological mother, Liu Manli, about the forged household registration documents. She discovers that her stepfather had not actually registered her yet, fearing implication by her adoptive parents' political issues. Jiang Yan leverages this information, demanding five hundred yuan from her mother to go to the police station and clear up the misunderstanding regarding the forgery. When her mother refuses, Jiang Yan turns to her stepsister, Shi Hongmei, who is also being pressured to marry a paralyzed man or face exile. Shi Hongmei agrees to provide the money in exchange for Jiang Yan allowing her to impersonate Jiang Yan for the registration, creating a new layer of deception. Meanwhile, Huo Ying remains persistent, watching over Jiang Yan and refusing to accept her rejection, setting the stage for a complex struggle between Jiang Yan’s desire for independence and Huo Ying’s determination to protect her.