Nearly fifty-year-old Wang Guifen catches her live-in son-in-law, Lin Jianguo, in a sordid affair with the nanny. In her past life, she chose to endure it, only to have her family’s property seized, break her leg in a fall and be left disabled because she couldn’t afford treatment. In the end, after falling out with the old man, she froze to death by the roadside.
Consumed by boundless hatred, she is reborn on the very day it all happened. This time, Wang Guifen refuses to be weak. She makes a scene on the spot, slaps the nanny so hard her cheek swells, and rakes her nails across Lin Jianguo’s face. In a panic, she calls her family home and screams that she wants a divorce from the wretched old man.
The eldest son hurriedly tries to stop her, while the second son lowers his head in silence. Only her youngest daughter dares to scold Lin Jianguo for being shameless at his age, but the furious old man slaps her hard across the face.
Lin Jianguo stubbornly agrees to the divorce. When they divide their property, he and the two sons stay in their old courtyard, while Wang Guifen gets another courtyard nearby. From then on, she makes her own living with her skills and carefully finds her daughter a good husband, building a thriving life for herself. Those who once wronged her can only watch her flourish, as they are consumed by endless regret and face the ultimate reckoning at the hands of the whole family…
