Song Wenguo comes from a family of doctors in Beijing and works as an ordinary English teacher.
She goes to the Thai border on her honeymoon with her fiancé, Zheng Qian. When a sudden riot breaks out, Zheng Qian is attacked and disappears, leaving her in grave danger. In her moment of need, she meets Lin Ye.
To outsiders, Lin Ye is the second-in-command of a local armed group. In reality, he is the illegitimate son of a high-ranking Myanmar official, undercover on a mission to suppress bandits.
He falls in love with Song Wenguo at first sight. Cold and distant toward everyone else, he treasures her above all and risks his life to keep her safe.
One wants to escape, the other won't let her.
After being pulled back and forth between life and death time and again, Song Wenguo's resolve slowly begins to waver...