Qin Jinlan sold everything she had and worked tirelessly at hard labor for years to put her son through university. Years later, when her son had established his life in the city, she learned that her daughter-in-law was pregnant with their second child and decided to visit them. But instead of the warm welcome she expected, she was met with coldness. Her son denied that she was his mother. She was taken into her son’s home not as a mother, but as a maid.
