A carefully orchestrated frame-up drags Jiang Ning, the most dazzling beauty of Southshore City, into the abyss. The price of self-defense is imprisonment and the loss of all her former glory. Five years later, she regains her freedom, only to be greeted not by the embrace of old acquaintances, but by a world that has long changed beyond recognition. The man she once deeply admired, Nolan Hale, looks at her with cold, distant eyes, letting her suffer through hardships in the dust. Everyone believes the former young lady has been completely broken, but no one knows that the past hardships were only whetstones that tempered her into a sharper version of herself. She casts away her former softness, and step by step takes back everything that belongs to her through harsh trials. When the truth finally breaks through the dark night, she comes to understand all the careful plans and deep, hidden affection behind his cold demeanor.
