Due to his parents' favoritism, Yang Mingyuan did not receive any demolition resettlement housing. Enduring for many years, he secretly handled household separation and military corps recruitment procedures. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, facing his family's debt coercion, he made public the evidence and severed ties, taking his wife Liu Yan far away to Xinjiang to contract cotton fields. In the end, the couple relied on hard work to achieve prosperity and established a cooperative, while the family members who stayed behind fell into predicament due to squandering, paying a heavy price.