
Marianne Sutton suffers her family's massacre. Losing memory, she's saved by Vincent Linden and marries him. Her memory returns, revealing the marriage was a scheme by Vincent and his true love, Claire Linden, to cover their crimes: assaulting her and murdering her family. She turns to Arthur Sheridan, Commander of the Fengtian Army, who secretly loved her, for revenge. Vincent begs forgiveness, but Arthur presses a gun to him: "My woman. It's not your place to atone."