Ye Xiaocao, a rural girl, has her university admission letter sold by her father who favors boys over girls, and is forced into an arranged marriage by her stepmother. She runs away and finds work in a cotton mill, where she accidentally meets Gu Zhijin, the factory director of British-Chinese descent. Faced with exploitation from her birth family and workplace harassment, she grows from a spinning worker into a key technical backbone with perseverance and wisdom. Eventually, she uncovers the truth that she was abducted as a child, finds her biological father, breaks free from her fate, and returns to campus to start a brand-new life.
