Fan Jiaying, who had stayed in Chaoshan for 18 years, was admitted to a university in Beijing. It was the first time she got a taste of freedom and she began to make friends and fall in love.
In the friendship, she clashed with her roommate over the different concepts of being an only child and not being an independent child; she learned that every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite; and she gained a new understanding of the issue of paying family expenses in Guangdong.
In love, she dated Fang Chengfeng, a "central air conditioner", but was tortured by Fang Chengfeng's double-standard view of friends of the opposite sex; after the breakup, she met the mature and steady Liang Zhiyu, and gradually lost her fighting spirit under Liang Zhiyu's offensive of boiling frogs in warm water, and almost became a housewife.
In the family, she began to understand her mother's difficulties and realized that her mother was not as patriarchal as she remembered, and her younger brother was not a traditional Chaoshan man under the influence of new era ideas.
She finally understood that she was herself first.
