My Dearest Mother, I Finally Found You

You gave me a life, then had no choice but to abandon it!

That life repaid you with a business empire!

But if you hadn't given me that life,

you couldn't have abandoned it,

and it couldn't have repaid you with a business empire.

After twenty-five long years of searching, the young Pan Mengting finally finds the woman who gave her life, during her third year of college. But because her biological mother committed terrible crimes during a time of upheaval, she suffers severe psychological aftereffects. Burdened by immense emotional and moral anguish, she dares not face reality, terrified that the Cultural Revolution might descend upon her again. She adamantly denies her true past and insists she never had a beloved older daughter, concealing the truth at every turn. Her endless lies and secrecy cost her many chances to reunite with her eldest daughter.

To protect her mother's peace of mind and preserve her sense of self, Pan Mengting keeps the truth to herself, even after she's absolutely certain during her junior year that she has found her birth mother. She lets her mother discover her eldest daughter in her own time, and reunite with her when she's ready. If she never does, so be it.

Before then, Pan Mengting lives and works alongside her mother as her goddaughter. She can't resist the call of a mother's love, but she will never disturb her mother's inner peace. As they build a business together, she devotes herself to her mother's wealth and career without asking for anything in return. This is how Pan Mengting best honors and repays her birth mother. The main story is about the bond between mother and daughter, while a parallel storyline follows Pan Mengting's love life: one woman and four men.