Cheng An'an is twenty-two this year, and the first skill she learned was how to make herself ugly. Raised in an orphanage, she learned early from her adoptive father's gaze and her adoptive mother's slaps that there was one thing wrong with her: she was too beautiful. She darkens her skin, paints on freckles, and ties her hair into two frizzy pigtails. Ugliness is the armor she puts on.
Then an accident brings her into the life of the Ye family's powerful patriarch. Their relationship goes from a melodramatic first meeting to a marriage of convenience, but he still has someone else in his heart, the girl who helped him when they were young. Thinking he still has feelings for the past, he ends their engagement early and tells Cheng An'an to leave. She walks away without hesitation. Only then does he realize that he has already fallen in love with her as they helped each other heal. He begins his campaign to win her back, standing beneath her apartment building late at night just so she might see him. But she only opens the window to check on her cactus. Ten yuan a pot, what a waste if it falls.
