In the backdrop of the 1980s, female protagonist Shen Qinghe was originally the daughter of an old tailor. After marrying Zhou Wenbin, she lived as a widow in marriage for eight years, serving the elders of the Zhou family and handling household chores, consuming her prime youth entirely in her husband's family. However, after her husband Zhou Wenbin went south to do business and got rich, he brought back a third party, Bailu, and a young child, returning home to force Shen Qinghe to make way. Having suffered all grievances, Shen Qinghe no longer compromised, taking the initiative to propose a divorce, refusing the Zhou family's handouts, and only fighting for six hundred yuan of wages for eight years of work and a leaking, dilapidated old street shop, resolutely leaving the Zhou family.