Lee Soo-jung (Ha Ji-won) is an orphan who works as a tour guide in Bali.

She struggles to make ends meet and aspires to be rescued out of her current predicament by a rich and wealthy man.

Jung Jae-min (Zo In-sung) is the youngest son of the wealthy chairman of the Pax Group.

Jae-min is constantly put down by his elder brother and beaten up by his father, but he is immune to all these treatments.

Young-joo in turn is still in love with her ex-boyfriend Kang In-wook (So Ji-sub) whom she left so that she could be engaged to Jae-min (as pre-arranged by both parents).

Jae-min finds out that In-wook is working for his family's factory in Indonesia, and his relationship with Young-joo.

At the end of the tour, Jae-min gets drunk and unruly, and starts to throw insults at Young-joo and In-wook.

Although Soo-jung calls Jae-min a bastard, she agrees to stay and tells him to pay whatever he deems fit.

He hears someone crying in the next room and sees Soo-jung sobbing over the humiliating incident she has just encountered with Jae-min.

In-wook returns to Jakarta and is told that he is to be transferred back to the head office in Seoul.

Soo-jung also sets forth to return to Seoul to track down her colleague, Jo, who has run away with her money.

Jae-min's brother lures In-wook to his camp to devise a financing plan to pump money from his father for an external investment.

Somehow, Jae-min also tracks In-wook to the same nightclub that fateful night, and their meeting turns into an ugly brawl with the club's gangsters.

But because Soo-jung offended the gangsters during the fight, she is taken back to the nightclub and forced to be a bar hostess.

And over the conversation, she sobs to In-wook about her situation and tells him of her aspiration to marry a rich man to end her misery.

Unable to bear with working as a bar hostess, Soo-jung eventually looks Jae-min up and borrows ₩30 million to pay off her brother's debts.

However, In-wook is not willing to take Young-joo back as he feels that she does not love him but rather wants to possess him out of her own selfish reasons.

Jae-min's brother in turn introduces In-wook to participate at the senior board meetings.

She leaves the office late and runs into Jae-min who was hiding in the nearby meeting room from his tyrant father (a.k.a.

Jae-min is unhappy to hear about Soo-jung, and In-wook's encounters and promptly leaves the restaurant.

She falls asleep in his office, and when she leaves in the morning, Jae-min asks her whether meeting him is also a kind of destiny for Soo-jung as well.

As they stay silent in the dark apartment waiting for Jae-min to leave, both feel awkward at what has happened.

She takes up the offer, and as she undresses Jae-min asks Soo-jung whether she can at least pretend to like him, and whether she agrees to spend the night with him to spite In-wook.

She tells In-wook that she is used to such treatment and that it is alright to be working in such a cushy environment even though it is under such humiliating circumstance.

She calls him to ask him out, but Jae-min (while breaking down on the other side of the phone) refuses, remembering his father's threats.

But he has already built his alliance with the investors, and they refuse to continue the deal with any other project team leader, other than In-wook.

Jae-min turns cold on her every time he sees her, and he is constantly drunk to drown his thoughts of Soo-jung.

Jae-min's brother finds out that In-wook has embezzled all the funds from the investment project, passes out and is hospitalized.

[1] Jae-Min sees them in bed in Bali living luxuriously after stealing $30 million from the company.

The original soundtrack of the series was released on February 4, 2004 Source: TNS Media Korea