The moment she opens her eyes, Fan Shengmei is back on the rainy night when her brother, Fan Shengying, gets into trouble and asks for money yet again. In her previous life, she sacrificed her savings and her dignity for this lazy, troublemaking brother, and nearly let him ruin her life. Her parents' favoritism had left her feeling as if she were plunging into an icy abyss.
This time, hearing her mother's familiar, tearful plea on the phone, "Xiaomei, your brother owes a gambling debt. If he doesn't pay it back, they'll break his legs!" Fan Shengmei feels a chill to the bone. Gripping her phone, she answers in a voice as cold as the rain outside: "I don't have any money, and I'm not helping him anymore."
Tears and threats come one after another from the other end of the line. Her brother even shows up at her workplace, making a scene beneath the company building and accusing her of being an unfilial sister. In the past, Fan Shengmei might have given in, but after getting a second chance at life, there is only resolve in her eyes.
In front of her colleagues, she calmly lays out everything her brother has done over the years: stealing money from the family, embezzling public funds, abusing his wife, and dragging the whole family into trouble. Every incident is clearly explained. As she watches her brother's face flush under everyone's contemptuous stares, Fan Shengmei says, word by word, "You're an adult. Pay your own debts. My life will never pay the price for you again."
She blocks her family's numbers and refuses every attempt to guilt-trip her. When her brother resorts to violence again, she promptly calls the police, drawing a line of protection around herself and her former sister-in-law under the law. To her parents' accusations, she says only, "You've protected him all his life. It's time he faced the consequences."
Free of her parasitic brother and her hopelessly muddled family, Fan Shengmei begins focusing on herself: improving her work skills, saving up to buy a home, and supporting one another with her friends from Ode to Joy...
