After working hard abroad for three years and earning over a million a year, Xie Qingyue quietly returns to China, hoping to surprise her family. Instead, she discovers her parents and two children surviving by collecting rubbish. She had kept only enough for her own living expenses each month and transferred all her remaining income home. Little did she know that her husband, Yu He, had been lying all along, claiming she owed an enormous amount in loan-shark debt. He had not only taken all the money but had also secretly sold their school-district apartment and ancestral home. Believing they were helping her repay her debts, her parents had moved into a dilapidated rental apartment, where they were enduring a miserable life.