Lin Qingyou dies in a cruise ship explosion alongside Yin Hanyu, who sacrifices his life to protect her. In her final moments, she regrets her past behavior and wishes to be his true wife. She awakens three years in the past, on the night they first became intimate after she was drugged. Realizing she has been reborn, she embraces him with remorse and love, ending the panic that defined her previous life.
In her past life, Lin Qingyou had fled the hotel room in horror, allowing her stepmother and stepsister, Lin Qingqing, to steal her identity and manipulate Yin Hanyu into a forced marriage. Qingqing had also aligned herself with Leng Yifeng, the man Lin Qingyou had blindly loved and defended for years, despite his emotional abuse and manipulation. Now reborn, Lin Qingyou confronts Qingqing as she attempts the same deception. She physically assaults Qingqing, exposes her schemes to the waiting reporters, and publicly claims Yin Hanyu as her husband. When Leng Yifeng arrives, expecting her usual subservience, Lin Qingyou rejects him entirely, slapping and kicking him for his past cruelty. She declares her love for Yin Hanyu, forcing Leng Yifeng to watch as she walks away hand in hand with the man he underestimated.
Yin Hanyu, initially skeptical of her sudden change in attitude, agrees to a one-month engagement period to ensure her decision is not impulsive. Lin Qingyou moves into the luxury apartment complex across from his, determined to win his affection through proximity and care. She cooks for him, defies his younger brother Yin Yichen, and navigates his cold exterior with persistence. Yin Hanyu harbors deep insecurities, believing she still loves Leng Yifeng and that her affection is merely guilt-driven. His jealousy peaks when he discovers she had previously tried to set him up with his female friend, Ming Yu.
The couple’s dynamic shifts as Lin Qingyou shares fragments of her dream, describing a future where they are married and he defends her honor against public scandal. Yin Hanyu becomes unsettled, interpreting her affection as pity rather than genuine love. He storms out, convinced she only wants intimacy to atone for a dream where he was heroic. Meanwhile, Lin Qingyou deals with family drama, outsmarting her stepmother Wang Yalan and manipulative father by exposing their attempts to alienate her. She moves out of the family home to focus on her relationship with Yin Hanyu.
Tensions rise when Yin Yichen fires top celebrity Gu Huai, angering Lin Qingyou, who is a devoted fan. Her rage distracts her from Yin Hanyu’s emotional withdrawal. Yin Hanyu remains haunted by the details of her dream, particularly the image of their marriage and the cruise ship disaster. He begins to suspect that her knowledge of future events is not merely imaginative. As Lin Qingyou strives to break through his emotional barriers, Yin Hanyu struggles between his desire for her and his fear that she is still emotionally bound to Leng Yifeng. The story follows their complex courtship as Lin Qingyou works to rewrite their tragic fate, while Yin Hanyu slowly begins to trust her sincerity despite his lingering doubts about her past loyalties.
