He was an aloof, abstinent bachelor who stood above the crowd and captivated everyone. She was a revenge seeker who had gone to great lengths to get her wealthy boyfriend to propose. They had nothing to do with each other, but when they first met, one remark from him, "She disgusts me," ruined her first love and her chance to marry into a wealthy family. Forced to drop out of school and left with nothing, she fell into severe depression and came to see him as her number-one enemy.
Five years later, when she saw him again, she realized that the hatred she had believed she felt had long since changed into something else.