Shen Yun is never respected by her in-laws. Her father-in-law George Carter picks on her, and her husband subjects her to cold violence. She discovers her in-laws, who prefer sons, conspired to force her out after the son from the mistress completes Ancestral Recognition. Shen Yun exposes the truth at the Kinship Recognition Banquet, the villains suffer, and she breaks free to start a new life.