After her mother's death, Bai Lan (Cecilia Cheung) sailed across the ocean to Incheon, South Korea, to seek refuge with her uncle whom she had never met, but when she got there, she learned that her uncle had immigrated to Canada. She ran out of money and had no choice but to get a fake marriage to obtain residency. Bai Lan had never met her "husband" Li Jiangqi (Choi Min-sik), and there was only a photo and a name of him around her. Bai Lan worked hard, was overworked, lived a lonely life, and had to endure the eyes of the people around her. The only thing that comforted her was the photo of her "husband" in the room. She was very grateful to this strange man she had never met, but in fact, the other party was an idle middle-aged gangster who agreed to a fake marriage because of lack of money. Fate made them miss the opportunity to meet each other again and again, until something happened...