Beneath the neon lights of a bustling city, Lin Xiao, a low-paid working girl, unexpectedly saves Lu Jingchen, a wealthy CEO being attacked by a group of people. Her half-joking “Why don't you marry me?” leads to the two of them marrying on a whim within a week. She leaps from a life of hardship into the highest echelons of wealth, but this marriage, which began as repayment for a life-saving favor, soon becomes a trial by the rules of the rich. Her mother-in-law looks down on her, her husband stays silent, and class discrimination is everywhere. Her life as a rich man's wife becomes a cage.
When the Lu Group is hit by a deadly crisis engineered by business rivals working with an insider, Lu Jingchen is trapped in a desperate situation. Lin Xiao pushes aside her resentment and uses the resilience and intelligence forged by her hard life to uncover the crucial evidence that can turn everything around. But just as she thinks it might earn her his genuine affection, she discovers a cruel truth in his study: the crisis was a scheme carefully plotted by Lu Jingchen and his mother to force her to leave.
From a life-saving favor to a calculated scheme, from a dream to its shattering, Lin Xiao finally sees that there's no fairy tale within the walls of a wealthy family. She wipes away her tears, tears apart the relationship that has been manipulated for someone else's desires, and walks out of the Lu family home. This impulsive marriage, born of selfish desire, ultimately forces her to face the painful truth about love and its ending, and gives her back control of her own life.
