At City Hall a woman asks for a divorce, insisting the marriage was a business deal and they'd barely met in three years. As they head inside something goes wrong: Emily wakes to find Julian asleep in her bed and panics while he stays unresponsive. Searching the house they hear a voice calling, "Father, Mother, breakfast is ready," and other details contradict their present lives. Gradually they realize they haven't reached the courthouse at all but may have been transported back in time. The episode ends with them staring at each other, stunned by this unexplained displacement.
Thrust back into a famine-era household, a married couple who had been headed for divorce face immediate rejection: the Fords expel them, accuse the man of being nothing despite having raised him, and beat him for stealing food while his sibling pleads for mercy. As violence escalates, a system alert interrupts — the newly activated Mart System warns that the two time-travel hosts are bound together and can only unlock it when their hearts align; if they divorce or live apart neither can open it. Before they can respond, Lola collapses, leaving their next move uncertain.
When Lola faints after three days without food, someone urges the mother to fetch a physician but another says they have no money. The household scrambles as a child reveals Ryan cooked two bowls of warm porridge. Mother feeds Lola first while Ryan insists he's not hungry; one child pleads not to be hit and the mother reassures them. Lola drinks and awakens. The episode's key turn is that food revives her, yet the family still lacks medical help and must decide how to care for her with almost no resources.
During a multi-year famine, Julian and his wife decide against divorce and agree to raise their two children. The system requires both of them to activate it, so they search the mountains for food but find everything picked. Julian finds a tree whose bark the system marks worth ten gold per cattie. They strip the bark to sell, but villagers spot them and spread a rumor that they're eating it. Neighbors warn bark is bitter, causes throat pain and can be fatal if consumed, leaving the family holding sellable but dangerous bark and the children's survival unresolved.
Two hosts open the trade system, sell Amur cork bark and earn 64 gold coins. They enter the mart and spend 58 gold on rice, meat, eggs and milk for the household. Back home they cook; children Ryan and Lola are fed meat and milk—it's their first time tasting meat. Father and Mother watch them eat happily. Outside, neighbors smell the meat, recognize the household as Julian's family who had been so hungry they ate tree bark, and grumble. The episode ends as the villagers hurry toward the house.
Julian is caught secretly eating meat while his parents dig roots and eat wild vegetables. They demand he hand it over, call him unfilial and say he still owes them despite being driven out. Corey mocks the kids; someone snarls, "touch my child again and see if I do not beat you to death!" A scuffle and a cry of pain follow. Then someone identifies the cloth wrapped around Julian as a lost embroidery worth 200 gold coins — the swaddling he was found in. That discovery creates leverage: meat can be obtained, but only for a single, unstated condition.
In famine-hit Springvale, villagers confront a family over a bag made from the cloth that wrapped her husband as a baby. They demand the cloth for meat, threaten to brand them unfilial, and warn desperate neighbors will seize any food. Corey and owners panic; one offers the bag, but a market prompt interrupts: "Detected a lost embroidery technique. Do you wish to sell it?" The two hosts disagree and cancel the sale. She refuses because the cloth is the only proof of biological parents; they accept rice and delay finding meat. Is she thinking about my future?
At home the mother bathes Lola and, after past abuse, kneels before Ryan and Lola to apologize, saying "I will never hit you again." She offers a sealed pledge — "one hundred years, never to change" — and the children tentatively forgive her. The narrator, who in a past life dominated the business world, is surprised by a new calm and vows to raise the two children so they won't suffer again. The household shifts from fear to fragile hope, and the narrator ends wishing, If only this dream would never end.
At night in a rural village, Julian and his partner discover there's only one blanket. They argue over sleeping arrangements; after checking the children's room and finding their covers too small, she squeezes in with the kids while Julian shares the single blanket. Awake, they compare yesterday's modern work—negotiating multimillion contracts—to today's farming life and admit the shock of the era jump. They resolve not to overthink and to rely on their skills to survive. The key change is acceptance: though married only in name before, they now have only each other. "You fool."
After waking together, a woman accuses the man of undressing her while she slept and angrily kicks him off the bed. He apologizes; she reminds him they are only a couple in name and orders him to keep away, vowing to wrap herself in coverings so he won't have any chance. That conflict spills into morning: children Ryan and Lola greet Father and Mother, and the father volunteers to cook. The household seems calmer and the children hope this new harmony endures, leaving the couple's cold boundary unresolved.