Jiang Yuchen, a powerful Grand Tutor who commands the imperial court, is calculating and obsessively possessive. For twelve long years, he has searched relentlessly for Xu Qinghe, the woman who saved his life when they were young. When fate brings them together again in Jiangnan, he uses his overwhelming authority to forcibly take her, a cool and aloof physician who has lived in seclusion, back to the capital. He imprisons her within the Grand Tutor's residence, using his uncontrollable possessiveness to keep her firmly by his side. Having fallen from prosperity and carrying a hidden pain, Xu Qinghe wants nothing more than a peaceful life. She fiercely resists his domineering attempts to possess her, determined never to surrender. Yet as they spend day after day together, she gradually becomes entangled in a whirlpool of love and hatred, caught in an impossible dilemma, and can no longer escape his grasp.