Eun Mo is back in her hometown, Paju after spending three years of soul searching in India. However, the reality she returns to is far from comforting as she is faced with a dreaded reunion with her widower brother-in-law, Joong Shik. Almost a decade ago when Joong Shik came to Paju as a student activist fugitive, Eun Mo never took a liking to Joong Shik who ended up marrying her older sister, Eun Soo. But she was forced to live with him when a tragic accident took her sister’s life. During a course of three years, Eun Mo gradually discovered she was carrying complex emotions toward Joong Shik. Having felt trapped, she decided to leave Paju. Eun Mo believed she had resolved all emotional conflicts in India, but as she digs further into her sister’s death, she becomes torn between the truth and her feelings for Joong Shik.
Yuki Rio, the daughter of an old, prestigious family in Kyoto with over 1,000 years of history, enters into an arranged marriage at the age of 16 with a man she’s never met. Her husband is Takamine Masatomo, a handsome CEO in the IT industry. Every year on her birthday, she would receive 50 million yen, making their relationship one based solely on money. One day, after ten years had passed with no contact, Rio decided to move to Tokyo. She asks her husband, whom she’s meeting for the first time, for a divorce. On the other hand, Takamine finds himself unexpectedly attracted to Rio and doesn’t want a divorce. Thus begins a romantic battle between a wife who wants a divorce and a husband who refuses to let her go.
