Fang Yuan, a manager of a foreign company in Shanghai, and his wife Pan Haiping recently had a disagreement. Because of their daughter Duoduo's poor academic performance, Fang Yuan tried to send Duoduo abroad, but Haiping, because of the sadness of her parents' death in the earthquake, attached great importance to the integrity of the family and opposed her daughter's going abroad. The couple quarreled over this matter. Fang Yuan's cousin Lin Hongmian and her husband Xu Guangming also had an emotional crisis. Their child Beibei was studying abroad, and the high tuition fees made it difficult for the family to afford it. In order to raise tuition fees, Xu Guangming went to work for his old lover, Chen Baozhu, the female chairman of a company, and Lin Hongmian's family was in turmoil.