In the 1970s, Zhou Qing, the head of the Heshan Guard Regiment, was involved in a political storm. In order to save their five children, Zhou Qing's wife Shi Zhu was forced to divorce her husband and forced her eldest son Xiao Yang to break up with his girlfriend and go to the border to join the army. She stayed in the small town of Liaobei and raised the other four children with difficulty. Unfortunately, Xiao Yang died heroically in the battle. Shi Zhu, with a lifelong guilt that would be difficult to calm down, accepted Xiao Yang's lover Ying Tong and the orphan Yao Yao. Soon, the spring breeze of reform melted the political ice, and Zhou Qing went to the provincial capital to take on important tasks again. In order to protect Ying Tong and her daughter, Shi Zhu gave up the opportunity to reconcile with her husband and insisted on raising the children alone. She helped her unruly and overbearing daughter and her son-in-law who had fallen on hard times to develop their catering business; she sold blood to support the "scholarly seed" third brother to continue his studies and become a pioneer in scientific research; she used patience and tolerance to influence the fourth brother who was imprisoned for corruption and brought him back on the right track in life; she despised secular etiquette and supported the shocking love affair between the fifth brother and his eldest sister-in-law Yingtong... Time flies, and on the New Year's Eve of the millennium, two generations of descendants from all over the world gathered in a small city in Liaobei, where there was a mother who had been waiting for her children all her life.