On the twelfth lunar month, Grandma's seventieth birthday, Su Min toils over the birthday banquet only to receive two slaps across the face. Her son Jiang Chen furiously smashes thirty tables of the banquet, brings out the ledger to settle twenty-five years of relatives' debts totaling two hundred thirty thousand, and also uncovers the truth of her father secretly transferring Su Min's salary. The family breaks free from the shackles of their family of origin, Su Min gets back the owed money, owns a house belonging to herself, opens a small diner, endures the aggrieved past, and welcomes her own brand-new life.