After Shen Wanqiao gave birth, her mother-in-law used back pain as an excuse to retreat to her hometown for eighteen years, while her own mother quit her job and quietly helped care for her family and child. After her son got into university, her mother-in-law suddenly returned to the city to enjoy her retirement and drove the woman who had contributed eighteen years of care out of the house. Faced with her husband's favoritism toward his mother and her in-laws' relentless pressure, Shen Wanqiao stopped enduring it in silence. She sold the property she had owned before marriage and filed for divorce. When she was subjected to online harassment, she exposed the truth with evidence. In the end, she defended her dignity and helped her mother reclaim a life of her own.