At her engagement banquet, Su Wan is betrayed by both her best friend, Lin Zhixia, and her fiancé, Gu Yanze. Framed for embezzling public funds, she is ruined overnight, abandoned by everyone, and left with nothing. Reduced to the bottom of society, she endures humiliation and torment until, in her darkest hour, she learns from her late mother that she was not born to her at all. She is Su Nianwan, the long-lost daughter of the Su family, the wealthiest family in the capital, missing for twenty-six years. Armed with irrefutable evidence left by her adoptive mother and backed by her illustrious family, she makes a triumphant return and turns the tables at her enemies’ engagement banquet, making the betrayers pay dearly. Lin Zhixia goes to prison, while Gu Yanze leaves the country.
She strikes out on her own and founds Wanxing Creative. There, she meets, comes to know, and falls in love with Gu Yanchen, president of the Gu Group. Together, they weather crisis after crisis. After they marry, they have a son and a daughter, Niansu and Wanxing. But after Su Nianwan finds success, Lin Zhixia, newly released from prison, and Lu Jingchen, a wealthy young man she made enemies with in Kyoto, launch a vicious campaign of revenge against her. They attack her with rumors, a maid poisons her grandfather, a sinister feng shui master curses and poisons her, and her son is kidnapped. She overcomes one disaster after another, witnesses Lu Jingchen’s arrest, and sees Lin Zhixia leap from a cliff and disappear without a trace.
Having survived the fall, Lin Zhixia is determined to keep pursuing her revenge. After enduring countless hardships to return to Kyoto, she changes her appearance and becomes Su Qing. At an exclusive social gathering, she meets the sadistic Shen Zhenbang and suffers his abuse. In her hatred, she accidentally kills the older Shen and is sent to prison. She leaves Su Nianwan a diary, whose final lines say that she will remain entangled with Su Nianwan for all eternity. Su Nianwan does everything she can to find an expert and sever her three-lifetime karmic bond with Lin Zhixia once and for all. At last, she lives freely beneath clear skies and bright moonlight, becoming a radiant rainbow of her own!
