A girl collapses after witnessing her parents’ death and is entrusted to a stranger elder who dotes on her yet keeps his distance. Gradually she falls into forbidden love with him. Before his engagement, she takes extreme actions to make him admit his feelings. Tempted by taboo love, he breaks the engagement but leaves her after three days of dating. Five years later, she returns as a journalist. The powerful man and her new lover drive them into fatal entanglements filled with old love, hatred and hidden truths.