Strange Kinship

Han Limei, a business tycoon in the south, built her commercial empire on the foundation left by her adoptive father. Her origins a mystery, she used a DNA test after achieving success to uncover the truth about her birth family: a struggling, declining household in a small northern city that favored sons over daughters. Fate would have it that during a recruitment drive at her company, Zhang Yanhong, the biological younger sister she had never met, was among the applicants. Zhang had dropped out of middle school and gone to work.

Han Limei hired her as a way to observe her calmly. Her younger sister was both a window into the past and a test of the "genes of adversity." Zhang Yanhong had unexpectedly stepped into a bustling metropolis, only to find herself trapped on three fronts: her birth family's endless, greedy demands, the brutal rules of survival at work, and the distant, scrutinizing gaze of a sister who stood high above her.

In this reunion of blood relatives, born of calculation, the sisters clashed and tested each other amid the turmoil of business and family. They fell out, then stood by one another. When the truth came to light, they finally joined forces, not only crushing a business conspiracy but also achieving profound redemption and rising above the fates they had been dealt. This is a moving story about blood ties and choice, shackles and liberation, self-interest and selflessness. In the end, it shows that family can be a bond of love and solidarity we choose, rather than an inescapable shackle of fate.