Nie Kai (George Hu) and Zhou Nian Zhong (Wallace Huo) both fall in love with the same "rich" girl in Hainan, Muo Jia Qi (Li Sun) in high school. Nian Zhong gets sent to Shanghai for college though, as his "mother" tells him that she's really his aunt, and that she's dying so he should go be with his real mother, who's now the second wife of a rich man. Her stepson hates her, but is in love with Lin Pei Yu (Yvonne Yau), the daughter of a business associate of his father's. She decides to go to England for college. Separately, Nian Zhong also gets sent to England, where he meets Pei Yu. She takes care of him (he refuses to live on his mother's money).
Jia Qi also goes to England with her mother (her stepdad tried to molest her and her mom left him). Her mom gambles away all her money and they're almost out of options when Nian Zhong runs into her mother, and helps them pay some bills. They start dating, much to Pei Yu's disappointment, as she's fallen in love with Nian Zhong. Just when Nian Zhong has bought a house and they're supposed to move in together, Jia Qi's mom begged Pei Yu for plane tickets to leave England so that she can escape her gambling debts. An accident occurs, however, and Nian Zhong and Pei Yu learn of Jia Qi's death via the news. Checking the hospital tells them no different. This is just when they're about to graduate, so they return to Shanghai together.
Pei Yu tells her father she wants to marry Nian Zhong, and he eventually agrees. Pei Yu's father and Nian Zhong's stepfather were starting a restaurant/hotel together in Hainan. Nian Zhong's stepbrother is the director; Nian Zhong and Pei Yu are both assigned VP positions. They go to Hainan planning to be engaged.
What they don't know is that Jia Qi didn't die, but she is paralyzed, and has returned to Hainan with her mother and Nie Kai, who's also risen to an executive status in the same restaurant/hotel operation. They have their meeting, blahblahblah, Nian Zhong and Pei Yu are formally engaged at the restaurant. Jia Qi has also agreed to marry Nie Kai. Nie Kai and Pei Yu are pretty much the only people happy with this arrangement.
Eventually, Nian Zhong can't take it anymore and breaks the engagement. He quits at the restaurant, and follows Jia Qi to her doctor's teacher's place, where she may be able to regain use of her legs. (I forget where exactly...) He finally breaks through her barriers, and they've decided to be together no matter who it hurts. She regains use of her legs. During this time, Nian Zhong's stepbrother has arranged it so that it seems like Nian Zhong's embezzled company funds, and he's under investigation while not even there to defend himself. Nie Kai and Pei Yu are risking themselves in the attempt to clear him name, under the impression that by doing so, Nian Zhong and Jia Qi have no option of being together.
When Nian Zhong and Jia Qi return, Jia Qi can walk again. Nian Zhong's name is cleared, and it's spilled that his stepbrother was actually the one to fake it all. He's fired from his director position, and Nian Zhong's supposed to take it instead, as Pei Yu's fiance. But he turns it down, nominating Pei Yu instead. They recognize this as his rejection of their engagement. He is engaged to Jia Qi instead.
Nian Zhong's stepbrother hasn't forgotten any of this. He tries to stab Nie Kai one night, but Nian Zhong saw them and protected Nie Kai. He was stabbed instead, and put in critical. During the hospital wait that night, Nie Kai and Pei Yu realize exactly how deep the bond between Nian Zhong and Jia Qi is. Nian Zhong survives, and finally calls his real mother "mom," instead of "aunt." They start planning for the wedding in earnest after that.

The night before their wedding, Jia Qi's mother complains of having nothing to wear just when Nian Zhong calls and says he's arranged a shopping trip for Jia Qi and her mother. They're about to go when Jia Qi remembers that Pei Yu wanted to give her her wedding gift now, and she returns to the house to wait while her mom goes on ahead. Nian Zhong's stepbrother, however, intent on spoiling things for other people, sets fire to the house. Pei Yu arrives just as Jia Qi is being surrounded by flames, and together they manage to avoid being killed, but while Jia Qi is unhurt, Pei Yu has burns all over and is in a coma; the doctor is unsure how much brain damage she has from lack of oxygen.
Nian Zhong asks Jia Qi if she will support him, no matter what decision he makes. She says yes. Their wedding is off, and he is reengaged to Pei Yu. Nie Kai offers again to take Jia Qi and her mom with him to America, where he's going to be a wushu instructor. She agrees. They leave before Nian Zhong and Pei Yu's wedding.