A young woman takes guardianship of the daughter her deceased fiancé left behind but finds the child too hot to handle. Unexpectedly, the person who killed her fiancé boomerangs back to attack…
Stars Jesseca Liu, Chen Hanwei, Christopher Lee, Eelyn Kok, Guo Liang, Phyllis Quek, Hong Huifang, Zhu Houren
From June 5, every Mon-Fri at 7pm
Total no. of episodes: 20
Twenty-four-year-old teacher Ding Yirou (Jesseca Liu) decides to marry 40-year-old widower Guo Yongtao (Chen Hanwei) despite vehement objections from her parents and disapproval from Yongtao’s 11-year-old daughter Doudou. The stubborn and wilful girl runs away from home as a sign of protest and during the frantic search, Yongtao is killed instantly in a hit-and-run accident. Traumatised, Doudou loses her ability to speak.
The orphaned Doudou is unwanted by all her relatives. Yirou, out of guilt and love for Yongtao, decides to be Doudou’s guardian and takes the child into her family home.
The entire Ding family – Yirou’s bad-tempered father Zhengda (Zhu Houren), gossipy mother Guiying (Hong Huifang), calculative brother Yixing (Guo Liang) and guileful wife Alice (Phyllis Quek) - is against the idea of the anti-social Doudou moving into the household. Yixing even thinks that Yirou is doing this merely because of the inheritance left behind by Yongtao to Doudou.
Doudou hates Yirou for causing her father’s death and resents living with the ‘murderer’, thus deliberately causing chaos in the family. Even Yirou’s bratty nephews Da B and Xiao B (Bryan and Brendan) gang up against Doudou who slowly becomes the victim instead of troublemaker and begins to feel the pains of living under someone else’s roof.
Yirou takes on the role of a mother and brings Doudou for counseling, standing up to protect her when she is bullied at school and at home, even going great lengths to get Doudou transferred to the school where she teaches. When Doudou’s schoolwork deteriorates, Yirou takes the time to tutor her. When Doudou falls ill, Yirou takes care of her painstakingly, while worrying constantly for her wellbeing. Still, the girl is unmoved.
On the contrary, Da B and Xiao B’s spiritual and emotional needs are utterly neglected by their parents’ heated arguments and feverish pursue of their career and higher social status. The boys run away from home and the older boy even tries to end his life. Fortunately, his teacher Cuiping (Eelyn Kok) manages to talk him out of it.
Cuiping and her boyfriend music therapist Ziyuan (Christopher Lee) are facing a crisis of their own: Cuiping had hit a man during a fight with Ziyuan in his car and had driven off in shaking fear when they realized the man is dead. The accident haunts Cuiping, escalating wildly when she discovers the deceased is her colleague Yirou’s fiancé!
She has no courage to own up to the accident and so tries her best to be a better person to Yirou and Doudou to make up for it. Ziyuan also helps out by giving Doudou music therapy. Under his guidance and care, Doudou begins to open up about her hatred for Yirou. Ziyuan tries his best to let Doudou see the many things her guardian does for her behind her back.
Yirou does not let up on trying to track down the driver who killed Yongtao. Her determination ironically causes Cuiping such panic that the latter develops a mental disorder and turns suicidal.
On the other hand, Ziyuan has been giving Yirou a lot of moral, spiritual and physical support and both begin to develop affections for each other. Nevertheless both withhold their feelings out of guilt and obligations to Yongtao and Cuiping respectively.
Their suspect relationship finally comes to Cuiping’s attention who wrangles out a confession from Ziyuan. His change of heart comes as a huge blow to Cuiping, who packs a weapon and tries to harm Yirou…
