This book is a semi-autobiographical novel. In the 1970s, the heroine Kang Zhiying was adopted at the age of six. She struggled to survive in abnormal family relationships. She experienced various setbacks and failures in her studies, love, marriage and career. During the period of great changes in the times, she stumbled from being a nanny to being a salesperson to an accountant. She achieved personal counterattack growth and also achieved reconciliation with herself, her family and society.