After I Gave You Everything

Episode 1

Matthew Adams is being honored as Professor of the Year when his own daughter, Matthew Adams, publishes a long post accusing him of misogyny and domestic violence. The internet turns on him instantly, and his career and reputation collapse under the mob's fury. He wakes up in a hospital, alone, with doctors saying he needs family care. But when he calls Matthew Adams, she doesn't ask if he's okay — she tells him that even if he dies, he first has to hand over one million for her boyfriend's car. She gives him three days, threatening to take her story to the education ministry and bury him for good.

Episode 2

Twenty years ago, Matthew Adams walked away from his position as chief researcher at the institute to raise his daughter alone, keeping a promise to his late wife. He became a teacher at Huasheng University, raising Matthew Adams while she grew up wanting for nothing — treats after school, whatever she asked for. He even sold the family house to send her abroad. Then she returns with her wealthy boyfriend, Wang Peng, pregnant, and delivers her demand: buy him a million-dollar luxury car, or she'll stop calling him father. Matthew realizes the child he poured everything into has turned on him. He decides the doting ends here.

Episode 3

Matthew Adams doubles down online, filming the home she grew up in and claiming she never felt a shred of warmth there. She paints Matthew as a cruel, favoritism-driven father who abused her, then parades him in front of her followers as her "biological dad." Matthew finally speaks: twenty-three years, a salary of ten thousand a month, nine thousand of it spent on her — the house sold for her studies, eight thousand a month abroad, her luxury bags and cosmetics, her maxed-out cards. He's worn one coat for ten years and eaten pickled vegetables to keep up. The crowd flips. Cornered, Matthew Adams shrieks that he owes her everything, then demands the million-dollar car as her wedding gift — or they sever ties. He agrees.

Episode 4

Matthew Adams can't believe he said yes. She pushes him to sign a formal severance agreement, certain he's bluffing to manipulate her. Wang Peng and her friends coach her: sign it, then run away from home — her father only has one daughter, so he'll panic and beg her back, just like every time before. Matthew signs without hesitation. Matthew Adams warns him he'll regret it, that no one will be there when he dies alone. He tells her that's his own business. Then he speaks quietly to himself: he's past fifty, he raised her without shame, and from now on he intends to live for himself.

Episode 5

Matthew starts dismantling the life he built around Matthew Adams. He reports every credit card under his name lost — the main card, the payment cards, even the savings card that pays her mortgage — effective immediately. At a salon, he's told a black-hair dye costs only a hundred, and he looks ten years younger. Matthew Adams, meanwhile, scoffs at him for wasting money and refuses to spot him two coffees. Strangers watching note the contrast: she wears luxury worth thousands but won't cover a hundred-yuan dye job for her own father. Matthew buys a nine-yuan shirt, and when the salon offers his old clothes, he leaves them behind without a backward glance.

Episode 6

It's Matthew's fiftieth birthday. Matthew Adams owes him a dinner and claims she'll treat him, but when he suggests a modest meal downstairs, she snaps at him for being extravagant and demands five thousand instead — Wang Peng is taking her to a new French restaurant. She tells him his birthday doesn't matter; her future does. Matthew quietly notes that a lavish meal only costs a thousand or so, not the fortune he'd imagined. He's done. He tells the agent he's certain: sell the house. He won't give anyone another chance to take a single cent from him, and he won't let her find him again.

Episode 7

News breaks that the Star Light anti-cancer drug project has failed its phase-three trials again, crushing families waiting for a cure. A commentator mentions that over twenty years ago the drug was nearly finished — until the chief professor abruptly resigned for family reasons. Hearing this, Matthew murmurs that this is what he should be doing. At the institute, researchers flounder, every simulation path exhausted, groping in the dark. "If only Professor Adams were still here," someone says. "He'd know the next step." Then a voice asks the question that changes everything: is he coming back?

Episode 8

Matthew confirms it: he's returning to the institute. His former students are stunned — they thought he left the Star Light project for his daughter. He corrects them: this time it's for himself, and for the families still waiting on the drug. The institute offers him top-level clearance and resource control on one condition — his identity stays strictly secret until the project succeeds. He agrees, and leaves a sealed document with a staff member, instructing that if Matthew Adams comes looking, she should be given it. Meanwhile, Matthew Adams, oblivious, shops for a limited-edition bag worth three hundred thousand, planning to put it on her father's card. At checkout, it's declined. The card is frozen.

Episode 9

Humiliated in front of her friends, Matthew Adams insists the card is just glitching. She calls Matthew, demanding he restore her credit and send fifty thousand immediately — he hangs up. Furious, she threatens that she's his only daughter and carries his grandchild, and if he abandons her she'll die. Wang Peng deflects, claiming his money is stuck in an overseas account, and nudges her to take out an online loan instead. She does, and the purchase goes through. But the shame burns. She vows that the humiliation and this debt will be repaid by Matthew tenfold, a hundredfold.

Episode 10

Matthew Adams's calls go unanswered, her messages ignored, and Matthew has blocked her. Wang Peng brushes it off as a bluff — her father is just waiting her out. He heads off to a mountain drive with friends, leaving his pregnant girlfriend behind. Sick and feverish, Matthew Adams begs him to come home; he snaps that he isn't a doctor and hangs up, phone off. Alone, she blames Matthew for everything and says she'll forgive him if he just apologizes. Then Wang Peng's car returns — and she spots a lipstick mark, and two other women. Clutching her stomach in pain, she confronts him.

Watch how a father who gave everything finally chooses himself — and what it costs the daughter who threw him away.