Her short-tempered, easily angered stepmother and the new baby brother in the family turn Wen Ruan from the cherished apple of everyone’s eye into an invisible presence.
She treads carefully at home, learning to be meek and cautious before she is even old enough to go to school.
Then the fiery Jiang Chenyao holds out his dirty little hand and pulls her into his tight-knit group of friends.
From then on, the three grow up together. Wen Ruan becomes the treasured girl they dote on, the envy of everyone around them.
But everything changes six months ago, when she takes in Cheng Mingyue, who is struggling financially.
Cheng Mingyue pushes her way into their group, and Wen Ruan becomes the one left out.
After being ignored and framed time and again, Wen Ruan finally reaches her limit. She turns away and marries the fiancé her mother arranged for her before she died.
But they fly in overnight to stop the wedding, kneeling and admitting they were wrong.
The heroine is so miserable. She is slandered time and again, betrayed by her friends, and anxious.