Married into the Shen family for two years, her husband has never returned from the military. Her mother-in-law is honest and her father-in-law is kind, but her eldest sister-in-law, third aunt-in-law, and cousin-in-law are each more squeeze-out-capable than the last. On the eve of the family division in 1981, she wakes up from sleep with a changed core inside. Sponge cakes, braised pork intestines, opening a shop, bringing her maiden family members into the city to break into the market. Borrowing her husband's reputation to back herself up, standing up for her sister-in-law, she gives back all the grievances she has suffered. Two years later when her husband returns, she almost fails to recognize him—he is hiding much deeper than she ever imagined.