A brilliant student asks her mother's stepson for financial help, sparking a forbidden summer love that ends in betrayal. Ten years pass before fate reunites them at the same company, where resentment and desire collide.
Struggling with her grandmother's mounting medical bills, Wan is confronted by a petty criminal demanding payment for her father's debts. Desperate for money, she takes on a tutoring job with Xixiao.
Wan and Xixiao's budding friendship takes an unexpected turn when they decide to rescue a group of abandoned goldfish, embarking on a heartfelt mission to find them a proper home.
Guo Xiangling makes Wan a calculated offer: full payment of her grandmother's medical expenses in exchange for ending her relationship with Xixiao, forcing Wan to choose between love and family obligation.
Wan faces a family crisis when her grandmother collapses on exam day, while Xixiao receives troubling news about his mother's property. Both must navigate personal emergencies that threaten to derail their futures.
At the Lu family banquet, Wan desperately seeks Xiangling's help to save her ailing grandmother, while Xixiao faces fierce opposition from his relatives over his controversial dream of abandoning tradition to study art abroad.
After moving into the Lu family home, Zhou Wan nurses a sick Lu Xi Xiao and helps him break through his creative block by organizing a children's puppet show.
Zhou Wan struggles to raise money for the surgery of her grandmother and turns to her landlord for help, while Lu Xi Xiao challenges Luo He to a basketball showdown.
Wan pursues Xixiao across the city before he can leave the country. Once reunited, the two find themselves thrust into a dangerous rooftop operation neither anticipated.
A brief return to Pingchuan offers no sanctuary for Wan and Xixiao as they prepare to flee again. Meanwhile, Xixiao's father forces him to declare allegiance in a corporate battle that pits blood against business interests.
A violent rescue attempt leaves Xixiao hospitalized after he fights to free Wan from Luo He's clutches. His grandfather uses the opportunity to forcibly separate the two, ordering Wan to disappear.
During a hospital visit, Xixiao opens up about his aspirations while Wan quietly listens, before unexpectedly steering the conversation toward unresolved tensions between them.
A visit to her former high school brings Wan face-to-face with Xixiao, triggering a charged encounter that tests both their emotions since she began her career at Lanyue Group.
A tender relationship between Wan and Xixiao unravels during a cutthroat competition for the Lanyue resort, where revelations from their pasts turn intimacy into rivalry and force them to choose sides.
Following a pivotal auction victory, Xixiao confronts his inner turmoil while Wan exploits compromising evidence to infiltrate Dingshang, using Zhongyue's secrets as her key to entry.
