Before passing away, the elder sister entrusted her young daughter, Jiang Yingxia, to her younger aunt, He Xuemei. To keep the promise made to her sister and fund her niece's education, He Xuemei silently shouldered all unspeakable hardships, bearing a twenty-year secret alone. Yingxia always thought her aunt was an extremely controlling person and grew up with resentment, until she became a well-known journalist and accidentally uncovered the full truth of the past while investigating an old case. Only then did she realize that the person she had hated for half her life had long since paved the road ahead for her with her life.