In Republic-era Haicheng, Lin Qing survived pregnancy and childbirth alone, only to discover that her husband, Fu Yanci, was hosting a grand full-month banquet for Su Yurou's son, and even gave away her daughter's heirloom gold lock. Five years of endurance and humiliation brought only coldness and insult. She took her daughter and left home, determined to divorce, preserve her design achievements, fight back through the newspaper, and forge a new path with her architectural talent. When wife, daughter, and career simultaneously slipped out of control, Fu Yanci finally panicked, while she no longer waited for the delayed warmth.