Liang Jianping, with a monthly salary of 50,000, is controlled by his wife Xu Yun. When Liang's father is hospitalized and needs fees paid, Xu Yun instead wants to buy a house and car for her younger brother. Liang Jianping can bear it no longer and takes back his salary card, intensifying their conflict. Coerced by her natal family, Xu Yun gives all her allotted house and car to her younger brother for his wedding, and is eventually abandoned by the Xu family after being squeezed dry of value. Relying on his own efforts, Liang Jianping's career improves, and he buys a house and car to live a stable life with his parents and son. Xu Yun, trapped in a shabby room, still obsesses over waiting for a natal family that will never turn back.