The male protagonist Gu Mingyuan meets Lin Weiwei, a young and beautiful divorced colleague at the workplace. She appears to be gentle, considerate and capable, but is actually very scheming. Gu Mingyuan gradually became disgusted with his first wife Su Lan, who had sacrificed her career for the family. At first, he used the excuse that "the key to the child's promotion to junior high school is that I take care of the outside and you keep the inside." He used his feelings of debt when starting a business to coax Su Lan into taking a back seat. Su Lan compromised for her family, gradually losing herself, losing shape and socially shrinking, and became the "background" of her husband's life. Gu Mingyuan and Lin Weiwei secretly conspired to transfer the couple's common property, and even took away the custody of their daughter An An after the divorce, which made Su Lan heartbroken.
In order to let her daughter seize better educational resources and paternal love, Lin Weiwei repeatedly usurped what An An deserved. Su Lan was heartbroken when she learned about it, so she appealed to the court again to fight for the custody of her daughter after her career stabilized. With her strong English skills and professional abilities, Su Lan translated overseas beauty literature for Lu Chen. With the support of her parents and senior Lu Chen, she returned to the workplace and regained the position of deputy general manager in an emerging leading company. On the surface, she is still obsessed with Gu Mingyuan, and secretly instigates his relationship with Lin Weiwei, making every move.
Gu Mingyuan saw Su Lan who was capable, calm and radiant after her comeback, and then looked at the hysterical Lin Weiwei in front of him, feeling regret and desire to conquer. In order to prove herself, Lin Weiwei invested blindly and repeatedly violated legal red lines, causing the company to continue to suffer losses. Su Lan set up a high-return bait to accelerate the break of his capital chain. In order to fill the gap in the transferred and squandered funds, Gu Mingyuan and Lin Weiwei took desperate risks, embezzled public funds, forged environmental protection certificates, and increased their leverage to the limit. Su Lan seized the opportunity,
