A young boy from the 1970s, separated from his family, fled famine and led his younger brother into

Su Nianci lived a previous life with a surgeon's steady hands and unflinching resolve, her days defined by the cold gleam of the operating theater. That life ended in a single, inexplicable moment when her soul was flung backward three decades. She awakens not in a hospital, but in the fragile, beaten body of her five-year-old self—an orphan, stripped of her inheritance by predatory relatives, subjected to their casual cruelty, and now destined to be sold into the clutches of traffickers. Her first day in this new life begins in a ramshackle cowshed, the walls bare, her existence seemingly worthless, with a vicious slap and the leering appraisal of a buyer greeting her consciousness. Yet the indomitable spirit of a brilliant physician still burns fiercely within this small child. With no other option, she flees, taking with her a mute boy she finds along the way, a fellow castaway abandoned by a harsh world. Their desperate flight leads them north on a long, hazardous road toward the only sanctuary she can imagine: the Northern Military Region, the last place her late father served before his death. It is there she hopes to uncover the truth of her father's legacy and reclaim a future stolen from her.