After four years in prison on a false rape charge, Qin Yun is released. He returns to his impoverished hometown, Peach Blossom Village, where he finds a four‑year‑old girl, Xiaoyu, being forced to carry scalding pig feed by the wealthy villager Chen Yanhong. He intervenes and learns that Xiaoyu is his daughter, born from the woman he was drugged and framed with. Overcome with guilt, he brings Xiaoyu home to his blind mother. During his imprisonment, Qin Yun obtained an ancient legacy that grants him medical arts, martial skills, and a cultivation method called the Longevity Decision, which produces a green True Qi. Using this True Qi, he quickly restores his mother’s sight. Determined to provide for his family, he goes into the mountains and hunts pheasants and a goat that has eaten wild ginseng, then goes to a large waterfall to catch fish by releasing True Qi into the water, attracting a swarm of fish and shrimp. There he meets Su Lina, a wealthy woman from the Baihua Grand Hotel, who is bathing in the pond. Diagnosing her constitution as suffering from excessive cold Qi rather than the heat toxin she was told, he correctly identifies a ghost‑faced spider bite on her leg. He sucks out the venom and applies herbal medicine, curing her. She tries to buy his catches and offers a close relationship, but Qin Yun declines, giving her a large fish, a large shrimp, and the goat leg as a sample for future business cooperation. He then leaves, intending to settle his family and seek out Xiaoyu’s mother, whose surname he knows only as Tang.
