

At Adrian and Seraphina's anniversary dinner, his stepsister Vivian burst into the venue, forcing Seraphina to give up her husband to her. Mid-argument, Vivian shoved Seraphina to the ground, triggering an immediate miscarriage.At this critical, life-threatening moment, Adrian showed no care for Seraphina whatsoever. Instead, he cruelly confessed that he had never loved his wife. Crushed and completely devoid of hope, Seraphina slipped away silently and jumped into the sea to take her own life. A full ten days went by before Adrian realized his lover had vanished. Countless memories of her selfless, wholehearted devotion flooded his mind — yet what awaited him was not his wife's return, but a police summons to come identify her body.

Queen Nephele, a former fisherwoman, suffers neglect as King Athamas indulges his mistress Ino. On her eighth birthday, Princess Helle is abandoned on a leaking boat by her father. She perishes in the freezing sea, crying for help. Devastated by grief, Nephele transforms into an avenger, exposing her husband's cruelty and hypocrisy before their daughter's memorial portrait. Athamas collapses in remorse and leaps into the sea. Clutching Helle's shell necklace, Nephele walks away alone—her love for her daughter now hardened into eternal farewell.

In a devastating fire, a stepmother and her stepdaughter become trapped in an elevator, and Evelyn sacrifices her life in a desperate attempt to save Heidi. Unbeknownst to her husband, Vincent Clarke, Evelyn's tragic death occurs while he stands by the side of Heidi's biological mother, Fiona Lawson. Grief-stricken, Heidi cries out, "I only have one mother, her name is Evelyn Glover!"