On New Year's Eve in 1988, in Yuqian Village, southwestern Shandong. 19-year-old Gu Chuntang was admitted to university, but her admission letter was hidden by her father, and she was promised to a widower in a neighboring village to pay off a debt, simply because she is a woman not allowed to sit at the table for meals. To resist the old system, she tucked a pair of scissors and a silver bracelet given by her mother, and fled overnight to the county town. Shen Peilan, the owner of Yunshang Tailor Shop, took her in. After completing her apprenticeship, she started from running a street stall, opened a ready-made clothing shop, paid off every single cent of the debt forced out by the IOU notes at home, and changed the outdated concepts of ancestral rules through her own efforts, allowing more women to break free from the imprisonment of outdated thoughts.