Tian Xiumei is the daughter of a gambler, and everyone in the village looks down on her. No family is willing to come forward with a marriage proposal. Sun Guoliang has a technical secondary school diploma and a secure job, but he is burdened with a mute older brother and a mentally disabled younger sister. With no other choice, he marries her.
Just one month after the wedding, Tian Xiumei becomes pregnant, and Sun Guoliang leaves to work away from home. At first, they exchange letters constantly, but gradually the messages stop. Her mother-in-law behaves suspiciously, then suddenly announces that Sun Guoliang is dead and pressures Tian Xiumei to marry his mute older brother. Tian Xiumei refuses to the death, but she is thwarted at every turn. She focuses on protecting her child and remains certain that her husband is still alive and will return one day. After that, strange things keep happening in the house.
But fate keeps pressing her, and someone mysteriously steals her child. She searches everywhere for five long years. When, battered and scarred, she finally decides to make peace with the past and accept the affection of a real estate tycoon so she can start over, an unexpected reunion shatters everything.
She is stunned to see Sun Guoliang, who should have been dead, living in luxury with a new wife by his side. The boy standing beside them is her own son, the child she has dreamed of and been separated from for five years. It turns out that his death, their separation, and the loss of her child were all part of one cruel deception from beginning to end…
