Modern city, top wealthy circle. The Shen family is a long-established and powerful family in Beijing, with strict family rules: the Su family is a declining scholarly family, strong on the outside and cadre on the inside.
Due to pressure from her family to get married and her indifference to feelings, Shen Yanci chose a marriage partner with "innocent wealth and no background"; Su Qingwan was forced to marry her step-sister in order to save her seriously ill mother's medical expenses and the Su family's old home.