Shen Wanzhi, fair-skinned and beautiful, wakes up from a nap to find herself transmigrated into a period novel. She's now the tragic female lead who, according to the original plot, marries an indifferent man, toils for thirty years serving demanding in-laws, and dies at fifty, only for her successful husband to buy her a lavish burial plot before marrying a younger woman. Upon realizing her fate, Shen Wanzhi declares, "Whoever wants to marry that man can go ahead!" Meanwhile, Lu Yunshen, a handsome man from an esteemed family, is a duty-bound soldier with no interest in marriage. After countless rejected blind dates, his family issues an ultimatum. Reluctantly, he returns home for another arranged meeting. Shen Wanzhi meets Lu Yunshen, a man with an upright posture and honest demeanor. She recognizes him as the supporting male character from the book – a responsible man focused on his career, who would dutifully hand over his salary after marriage. This is the man for her! The villagers scoff when Shen Wanzhi, the delicate daughter of the Party Secretary, chooses to follow the army to a remote, barren area rather than marry the wealthy factory director's son. They predict she'll soon cry and run back, while her original fiancé in the city also waits for her to beg for his return. But what they get instead is news of Shen Wanzhi's husband's promotion and their move to the capital, while the supposedly "clueless about romance" Lu Yunshen is seen lovingly massaging his wife's feet.