The story takes place in a city in the north.
The Zheng family has daughters, the eldest daughter Zheng Hao and the second daughter Zheng Xiu. The elder sister, Zheng Hao, grew up with a heart problem, her parents spoiled her, and her younger sister, Zheng Xiu, let her have her way, thus developing her willful and overbearing personality. The college entrance examination came, and the two sisters were in the same examination room, because of handing a note to her sister, Zheng Xiu was cleared out of the examination room. Zheng Hao got into college, Zheng Xiu had to take over the mother's class, to the District Material Bureau of a material company as a cashier. Zheng family with the yard there are two families, one surnamed Qu, the man is the District Materials Bureau Secretary, the woman is a retired dancer, son Qu Jia Liang handsome, smart, graduated from the university in secondary school to teach English; the other Xu family only mother and son, the son is called Xu Hui, in the factory as a laborer, like literature. Two young people like Zheng Xiu, Zheng Xiu is in love with Qu Jialiang, but Zheng Xiu and Qu Jialiang just want to be good time, a habit of not looking at the Qu Jialiang's Zheng Hao but try to win the Qu Jialiang's love. Zheng Xiu is very depressed. Xu Hui thought he had a chance to pursue Zheng Xiu, but he was not favored, Xu Hui was very painful.
Jung Hao was removed from the university for disciplinary reasons, and she had to take over the job of word picker in a small printing factory. Zheng Hao was unwell due to lead poisoning, and her parents had to do Zheng Xiu's job and let her and her sister change jobs.
Cheng Xiu's love and career were taken away by her sister Zheng Hao, and she was very depressed. Just when Zheng Hao was about to get married to Qu Jialiang, Qu Jialiang's father was dismissed because of embezzlement, and Qu Jialiang himself was disciplined by the school for injuring an unruly student by mistake. After marriage, Qu Jialiang because of life is not happy, business is not doing well, often drunk and angry, but also hit Zheng Xiu, Zheng Xiu is afraid of parents worried about, tolerate the anger. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers," said Mr. Hsu.
China's market economy has begun, Zheng Xiu contracted a factory, in Xu Hui's help, after some hard work, dry very prosperous. But this time Qu Jialiang got pancreatitis, Zheng Xiu and busy factory work, but also to take care of her husband busy, the printing factory business into difficulties. The company's business is in dire straits, and Zheng Hao's hand is holding the live source, she proposed to be the factory's hand, Zheng Xiu for the interests of the factory, took the initiative to give way.
After being laid off, Zheng Xiu opened a small food wholesaler to make ends meet. At this time, Qu Jialiang's illness became more and more serious, and he kept playing Dulcolax to stop the pain, which led to his addiction, and his life became more and more difficult. The company's main business is the printing of pirated books and pornographic books. Zheng Xiu knew that her sister was doing something illegal and came to stop her from doing so, but she refused to listen. Zheng Hao had an affair and was discovered by Xu Hui, who divorced Zheng Hao with her children.
Under the careful care of Zheng Xiu and Xu Hui, Qu Jialiang miraculously regained consciousness, and even forgot his addiction, when Qu Jialiang's parents came back from abroad for many years, they inherited a legacy abroad, to take their son and Zheng Xiu, at this time, Zheng Xiu and Xu Hui already have feelings for each other, and Qu Jialiang saw in his eyes, and his parents quietly left, leaving behind a divorce document and a sum of money.
Zheng Hao from prison, no career, no family, no husband, no children, and all of this is on the side of the younger sister Zheng Xiu, Zheng Hao heart burning with jealousy, a family reunion to eat hot pot, she and her sister argued, suddenly overturned the table, severely burned his daughter small cut, Zheng Xiu angry will be his sister sued to the court, do not want to parents to testify in court to exonerate Zheng Hao! Zheng Xiu suspected that she is not the Zheng family couple's biological daughter secretly go to do personal identification, and parents of the relationship to get very reins. Mystery finally unveiled in Zheng father's deathbed, Zheng family does have a daughter is not biological, is the sister Zheng Hao. Zheng Hao's parents on the Zheng family has the grace, after their death, the Zheng family took in their daughters, and from childhood to pampering, resulting in Zheng Hao developed a capricious and overbearing, selfish character. Zheng Hao repentance, realize their own loved ones harm, take the initiative to the court to plead guilty, and sister Zheng Xiu has been to the court to withdraw the case, the two sisters embraced each other and cried, as good as the first.