The ending of “Four Joys” is absolutely outrageous: the show forces a redemption for the mistress and even lets the illegitimate child take half of the inheritance. It’s full of shocking plot points.

The finale of Four Joys is unbelievably chaotic—one shocking plot point after another. The story forcefully pushes a “happy family” ending, complete with everyone making dumplings together, despite the complete lack of buildup.

Just when you thought Shen Mingzhu persuading Bicen not to terminate her pregnancy and encouraging her to have a child with a man who depends on his parents was already outrageous, things get even wilder. After Feng Zhi’s death, the illusion of the Feng family’s wealth collapses: their properties and factory are seized, funds are nearly gone, yet Feng Zhi had already divided up all his assets beforehand. In reality, He Lihua doesn’t need to repay any debt, but the whole family insists on “saving face” and pays everything back anyway.

This leaves Shen Mingzhu—six months pregnant—handling the funeral, dealing with banks and courts, liquidating assets, and facing angry creditors. Meanwhile, her mother-in-law sits on a luxury sofa doing nothing. The younger generation does all the work.

From the creditors’ perspective, repayment is good. But for Shen Mingzhu, none of this is her responsibility—she’s pregnant and still dragged into the mess.

Then it gets worse. The mistress, Ding Hong, brings her illegitimate son to fight for inheritance, sends the wife to the ICU from anger, and even dumps the child on Shen Mingzhu. When Shen Mingzhu asks her to take him back, Ding Hong shamelessly retorts, “If you can’t handle a child, how will you handle the one in your belly?”

Shen Mingzhu endures everything because she has loving adoptive parents who step in to help. They even handled two funerals for her and ended up taking care of someone else’s child in their fifties.

But the real twist is Ding Hong herself. Claiming to be a “conscientious mistress,” she sells a shop rewarded to her and gives 220,000 yuan to Feng Meiqi out of guilt. After all the chaos, the mistress is basically “redeemed,” and unbelievably, Feng Meiqi begins sympathizing with both Ding Hong and the illegitimate child. They even exchange contact information.

Forcing reconciliation and whitewashing the mistress is absurd and unrealistic.

Just when you think the drama is ending, the writer insists on completing the “Four Joys” concept by making Feng Meiqi suddenly pregnant out of wedlock—with zero setup and no contact information for the father—yet she insists on having the baby.

So the “Four Joys” aren’t life celebrations, but four women all getting pregnant. This drama isn’t joyful—it's pure shock value, one of the most blatant “baby-pushing” plots in recent years.