Forty-six-year-old Xu Chunlan married into the Zhou family eighteen years ago, running the store and paying off debts for her husband while raising three stepchildren. On the wedding day of her stepdaughter Zhou Tingting, her biological mother Bai Yuemei, who had been missing for many years, returned in full glamor. Her husband invited Bai Yuemei to the head table, and the three children, eager to please their "rich biological mother," publicly banished Xu Chunlan to the back kitchen, mocking her as just a free nanny. Xu Chunlan finally realized that what she traded half her life for was not family affection, but taken-for-granted servitude. She picked up the microphone to publicly settle accounts, tore up the house-gifting promise, left the Zhou family, and returned to the medical escort industry.