Childhood sweethearts Stella and Ashton fell out over a fire seven years ago — Ashton mistakenly believed she had left him to die. During their three years of marriage, he sent her over a hundred divorce letters, and Stella only managed to hold on through humble forbearance, withdrawing each one. On the day the 101st lawyer's letter arrived, at a party, Ashton took his stepsister Jade's side, forced Stella — who was allergic to alcohol — to drink in public, and even slapped her, breaking her hearing aid, which finally drained away all her love for him. To advance her mother's legacy project for early-stage cancer screening, Stella agreed to marry the mysterious tycoon Ethan, who had secretly adored her for years, and resolutely signed the divorce papers.
Jade faked video clips to stir up trouble, and Ashton, out of spite, got engaged to Jade in an attempt to force Stella to come back. But on the day of the engagement, he ran into Stella marrying Ethan, the richest man in the Bay Area. Overcome with regret, he launched a frantic campaign of revenge, which backfired and drove his own jewelry company into bankruptcy. In the end, destitute and broken, he begged Stella to take him bac…