In the early 1980s, Lin Wanxing is pressured by her family into marriage in exchange for a bride price and reluctantly marries Chen Shouyi, a timid carpenter. After the wedding, she suffers endless mistreatment from her husband's family. She works tirelessly every day, only to face further humiliation and abuse from her relatives, and is repeatedly harmed even during pregnancy. With her heart finally broken, she resolutely escapes and seeks refuge at a veterinary station to learn the trade and make a living. Her husband's family suffers one misfortune after another and falls into decline, while the heroine establishes herself through her veterinary skills, opens her own clinic, and steadily builds her wealth. When her ex-husband's family lowers their heads and begs her to reconcile, she firmly refuses, cuts ties with her past once and for all, and sets off toward a brand-new life.