Fu Qingsang was lost by the Fu family and found again twenty years later, their eldest daughter.
After returning to the Fu family, she discovered that no matter what she did, nobody liked her. And the person she loved only had eyes for her younger sister.
It wasn't until the moment she died that she realized the truth: it wasn't that she wasn't good enough. These people had never liked her at all.
Given a new life, Fu Qingsang decides to stop trying to please those so-called family members.
If they don't like her, then fine. They don't have to.
She has an adoptive family who dotes on her, and she can make a life for herself just fine.
Everyone in the Fu family thinks their newly returned eldest daughter is unreasonable, willful, and cold-blooded. They simply can't bring themselves to like her.
The younger daughter they've cherished for twenty years is much better: sweet, sensible, and adorable.
Later, everyone in the Fu family sees the daughter they never liked thriving. At a young age, she becomes a professor at an agricultural college and receives national honors.
And the country folk they looked down on turn out to have identities so prestigious that the Fu family could never hope to match them.
They regret it and beg Fu Qingsang to come home, hoping to repair their relationship with her.
Fu Qingsang: “Ha. Affection that comes too late is worth less than grass. The Fu family? Not even a dog would go back.”