With support from family and friends, Wang Feng, a social worker, escapes a marriage in which she had lost herself. Determined to build a better life, she taps into available resources and gives it everything she's got, continuing her work as a social worker while trying her hand at entrepreneurship in various fields. Believing in the country's economic prospects, she makes more money than she ever dared imagine she could in a lifetime during a major bull run in the A-share market. When the property market slumps, she buys several apartments in prime downtown locations and becomes a landlady. Yang Rong, an old classmate who had been secretly in love with Wang Feng since college, also starts pursuing her again after ending a relationship. Once mocked by her ex-husband as a foolish woman who "couldn't even fly if she were set free," she becomes a winner in life after her divorce.
Through the novel, the author depicts Wang Feng's journey from a small mountain town to a big city, where she strives to enter university and pursue a better life. She experiences marital deception and breakdown, the painful transformation of her closest relatives into strangers. Life's hardships do not break her; instead, they ignite her fighting spirit.
It realistically records the helplessness of middle age, but the protagonist takes a positive and wonderful path.