Set in Milan, the capital of fashion, the poor talented tailor student Violette Moreau accidentally breaks into the private fitting darkroom of top fashion house Maison Vale while raising medical expenses for her seriously ill mother, and is signed a "personal muse" contract by Seraphina Vale, the creative director known as the "Lace Tyrant". In exchange, Seraphina pays all medical fees for Violette's mother and paves her way to the haute couture runway. The two gradually develop ambiguous feelings from confrontation between taming and resistance during cohabitation, and Violette also discovers Seraphina's old trauma hidden in her mentor's death in a fire five years ago. Later, they are framed one after another by multiple forces including former muse Giselle, rival president Marcel and family elders, going through multiple crises such as Violette's heartbroken departure after the intimate footage leaks, being slandered for theft and blacklisted by the industry, and being involved in the old case public trial. They finally join hands to uncover the cross-generational old arson conspiracy that spans two generations, clear all stains, Violette completely gets rid of the "queen's canary" label, and counterattacks to become an independent leading haute couture designer. The two tear up the old contract, turn the unequal relationship between possession and being possessed into an equal soulmate relationship who run towards each other side by side, complete mutual redemption and ha
