The year is 1975, and Xia Xiaoman has become the neglected stepmother of her second marriage.
The husband cares about his ex-wife, money is flowing out, the husband's family is poor and strapped, and he has two stepchildren, one naughty and one soft.
Freed from the shackles of her native family and her unloving ex-husband, she set up a stall cooking delicious food to make a living, and studied hard day and night to prepare for the college entrance examination.
Abandoning her old marriage, saving her savings, and getting admitted to a prestigious school, she went from rural fireworks all the way to a capital university, writing the history of an ordinary girl's counterattack in the 1970s.