Xiu Ju, a clever young woman from a poor family, sells handmade goods to care for her sick mother while secretly learning outside a school. She falls for the kind-hearted Shen Yanzhou, but to save her mother and repay a debt, she’s forced to marry his older brother, Shen Yanqing. Trapped between love and obligation, Xiu Ju finds herself in a tangled web of emotions within the Shen family.