After her husband died early, Meng Yun guarded a braising pot and toiled in her in-laws' back kitchen for fifteen years. Her son Lin Chuan suddenly returned from abroad, yet she was locked in the kitchen and not even allowed to come to the table to see her son. Even more heartbreaking, the money her son remitted over seven years for her mother's medical treatment—she hadn't seen a single penny of it. At the banquet, Lin Chuan publicly asked about his mother; how much longer could the lies stay hidden?