
On New Year's Eve, Serena Shaw brings ingredients to her parents' house. For tasting food, she is accused by her mother of being a greedy schemer, compared to her older sister. Favoritism and grievances erupt. She leaves in anger, only to be slandered by her mother as unfilial. She returns to take back her gold bracelet; her mother demands 500,000-yuan parental support, matching her sister's failed loan.