When Shen Nanqiu was abducted at the age of three, she was forced to become a child bride for the Chen family and renamed Chen Xinyue, enduring years of cruel mistreatment. Years later, she reunited with her birth mother Shen Mo, who had spent two decades searching for her, over a sweet osmanthus cake scented with lemongrass.
Chen Pingchuan feigned a marriage proposal to swindle her money, but his true malicious nature was exposed. At their wedding ceremony, Shen Mo recognized her long-lost daughter, and the truth of the child abduction was laid bare. In the end, the human traffickers were brought to justice. Mother and daughter rebuilt their bond amid fragmented, painful memories.
