Qiuping, who was born in 1985, was born in a family that favors sons over daughters in a fourth-tier town in Guangdong. Her elder sister Chunmei inherited her father's career and became a teacher. Her younger sister was given up for adoption when she was young, and her younger brother is the beloved "incense" of the family. During college, she seized the dividends of Guangzhou's underwear industry and accumulated her first pot of gold by selling goods on WeChat. After getting married, she gave up her job in Guangzhou and returned to her hometown to further pursue her career. However, she was deeply involved in conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, estrangement between husband and wife, and family triviality. From the ups and downs of e-commerce entrepreneurship to physical endeavors, from long-distance marriages to frictions under the same roof, she struggled to balance taking care of her children with her career. In the end, she resolutely kept distance from her parents-in-law, but she did not expect that her mother-in-law's death due to illness became a hidden pain in her heart. At the same time, the elder sister's life as a teacher, the younger brother's marriage and family, and the unexpected acquaintance with the adopted sister made the bonds of this family with many children more and more complicated. The novel takes Qiuping's half-life trajectory as the axis, interweaving the different lives of her brothers and sisters, describing the struggle and perseverance of middle-aged women in family, marriage and self-worth, and describing the fireworks and thorns in ordinary life.
