Serena, heiress to a top New York family, hides her identity for love and endures three years of PUA and body-shaming from Patrick, president of Aurora Group. To please his supposedly paralyzed white moonlight Shirley, Patrick forces her into an antique corset wedding dress secretly fitted by Shirley with six steel bones at the knees. During the fitting, Shirley fakes a fall and pushes Serena down, irreversibly injuring her pelvis and knees—yet Patrick rushes only to the unharmed Shirley. Devastated, Serena cuts up the dress, exposes the scheme, and is escorted back to New York by her brother Sean. Patrick uncovers Shirley's fake disability and conspiracy and throws her out, then crashes Serena's engagement banquet with Charles of the Winston family to beg for reconciliation, but is publicly rejected. The two families crush Aurora Group; Patrick is left permanently disabled after a car crash, while Serena marries Charles and begins a new life.
