To outsiders, Li Yu seems to live in a large, well-off family. But her mother died when she was young, and since her mother was a mistress, Li Yu has always been at the very bottom of her family's pecking order.
While studying in the UK, her cousin sets her up, and she narrowly escapes being assaulted by a Black man. Then she meets Bai Yashu and gives up her graduation trip to return home and search for someone whose face and name are all she knows. Their reunion should have led to a beautiful romance, but instead, it begins in a twisted way.
Life moves clockwise like a circle. Even after you repeat someone else's mistakes, someone will still tread through the same foul mud you walked through.
Even more humbly than her mother before her, Li Yu maintains a relationship with Bai Shuya that is more fragile and fleeting than a lover's.
After a massive conspiracy leaves Bai Shuya's company on the verge of bankruptcy, she accidentally discovers Li Yu's identity. Now there is one more person who sees Li Yu as ugly as an ant.
Li Yu has no choice but to grow up, becoming calculating and ruthless as she fights to reclaim a place to live in a world where the strong prey on the weak...