For the sake of a bride price, Meng Dayong wants to marry off Meng Xiulan to a widower who has beaten five wives to death. After fighting back against her father's arrangement, Meng Xiulan instead marries Lu Yanzhou, a sent-down educated youth living in a cowshed. On their wedding night, Lu Yanzhou is urgently summoned and never returns. Ten years later, thirty-year-old Meng Xiulan takes her child to the city to work as a nanny so she can provide for them. By then, Lu Yanzhou has returned to China in glory. The two meet at the Lu family home but fail to recognize each other. After years of separation, Meng Xiulan and her son are repeatedly bullied. A paternity test leads Lu Yanzhou's mother to discover that Meng Siyan is her grandson, and she fiercely stands up for her daughter-in-law and grandson. After numerous twists and turns, Lu Yanzhou finally uncovers the truth, and the family is reunited. Butler Liu, Meng Dayong, and the others ultimately suffer the consequences of their own actions.