Wang Shufen, a mother who plays favorites, dotes on her second son, Zhipeng, and his wife, Xinxin, while despising her eldest daughter-in-law, Huijun, for giving birth to a daughter. She steals from her eldest son's household to subsidize her second son, and even abandons Huijun during labor to care for her second son's wife. When demolition compensation for the family home arrives, she secretly sells the ancestral house and gives all 2.5 million yuan to her second son to buy a school-district apartment, leaving the eldest son's family with nothing. After years of swallowing her pride, Huijun finally sees her husband, Zhiming, come to his senses and refuse to let his mother move in again. Cast out by her second son's family and rejected by her third son as well, the mother ends up lonely and helpless.