Forced to leave her adoptive family at eighteen, Chi Nian agrees to a four-year arranged marriage to repay her birth family, only to suffer humiliation from her fiancé, Ji Shao. When she fights back and breaks the engagement, Lou Xiyan, who poses as a disabled, discarded son, proposes a swift marriage. He protects her and accepts her need for physical affection and her mildly aggressive tendencies. As she builds her career, they overcome both families' schemes, earn her adoptive family's approval, and turn their marriage into mutual love.