In 1988, retired female worker Chen Yun unexpectedly discovered that her three years of retirement pension had been collected by another woman behind her back with her husband's collusion, and even her biological son had known about it all along. Having endured for most of her life, she finally awakens: her retirement money must be guarded by herself, and the second half of her life must be decided by herself. Reporting and recovering the funds, decisively divorcing, refusing to act as a free nanny, she joins hands with her daughter-in-law Liu Mei to start a business, starting from a small housekeeping service department, and steadily establishes her footing amidst customer grabbing, internal spies, malicious competition, and financial crises. For half her life she lived for her family; for the rest of her life, she lives only for herself.