

Ten years ago, Joe Leed, the Advisor of Shaston, retired and embarked on a new life in a small town. There, he encountered a girl who assisted him. He had always wanted to repay her kindness. However, he didn't manage to find her until a decade later when he met a drunk girl named Zoe Hale. It turned out that she was the woman he had been looking for. She drowned her sorrows in alcohol because of a forced marriage with an awful guy in Valia named Tom Cole.

The Gray family has two daughters—Luna Gray, whose mother is the matriarch, and Stella Gray, the daughter of the secondary wife. As the Grand Duchess, Luna cannot seem to get pregnant, so she asks Stella to replace her and get pregnant with the Emporer’s child because Stella resembles her a lot. Pretending to reject her request, Stella then enters the palace with the pendant left by her deceased mother and starts plotting her revenge.

Mason Scott, a billionaire heir, poses as a poor student and enters Arlo University to test his fiancée, Zena Lowe. But when Zena targets him in her cruel "Love Blind Box" game, the predator unknowingly becomes the prey. Mason isn't just surviving the game—he’s rewriting the rules for a final, public reckoning.