Phoenix from the Humble Home: Let Me Protect You Now

Phoenix from the Humble Home: Let Me Protect You Now Plot:

Lin Xiaoman was the "little tail" of "Guilan's Pancake Stand" in the old town—her mother Li Guilan would knead dough at 4 a.m., slipping a hot pancake into her hands with frozen red fingers: "Our Xiaoman will get into the best law school." Now Xiaoman is a top lawyer who can outargue anyone in court, but on the day she won a million-yuan case, she saw her mother crouching outside her company, hiding a gastric cancer diagnosis behind her back. It turns out Mom feared being a burden—she'd pawned their old house to loan sharks, sent the money back to Xiaoman's card, and even stopped chemotherapy secretly. Xiaoman quit her high-paying job, carried Mom's pancake pan back to the alley, and accompanied her to the stand every day. When the mother who once shielded her from gangsters' fists now trembles while flipping pancakes, Xiaoman holds her hand: "Mom, you protected me before—now let me protect you." But Mom still hides painkillers, saying "don't waste money on me." Yet Xiaoman finds all her childhood awards under Mom's pillow—this time, she'll be Mom's "armor," even if she has to fight the whole world to steal back Mom's "tomorrow."