When young Nina, brimming with innocence, confessed her love to the handsome, older Max, he mocked her as a "doll-playing kid" before shattering her heart further by forcing her to witness her sister Celia's intimate night with him. In a single day, her world collapsed. Fleeing the pain, Nina vanished overseas to rebuild herself through education. Four years later, the now-polished beauty returns—only to be shackled by her father's gambling debts into marrying Max, the man she loathes most, in her runaway sister's place. As past and present collide, their wounded prides clash like dueling swords, igniting a war of twisted passion that will either forge a new bond… or destroy them both.