When Gu Yun was young, she was abducted and sold to Lin Hu, an aging bachelor. Lin Hu was an alcoholic and a womanizer. He gambled away the money Gu Yun worked so hard to earn and constantly beat and verbally abused her. Unable to endure this life any longer, Gu Yun prepared to drink pesticide and end her life, but her young daughter, Lin Qian, saw her and cried, begging her mother not to die. After Gu Yun drank the poison, Lin Hu returned and discovered what had happened. Afraid that taking Gu Yun to the hospital would expose the fact that he had bought a wife, he buried her instead and took the young Lin Qian home. But against all odds, Gu Yun survived, clawed her way out of the dirt, and reclaimed her life!