[1] It was the first joint production between the two companies, and is a remake of the 1997 Television Corporation of Singapore (now MediaCorp) drama Rising Expectations.
The story centres on the struggles of two of the three main characters of the series: Fang Yucheng and Shi Jianing.
Shi Jianing was born in a moderately rich family, but her father, Shi Dongqing, abandoned the family to seek greater wealth by marrying a rich woman, even when his first wife was gravely ill. Jianing, faced with the loss of her mother, hated her father ever since, and vowed to exact revenge, especially after her father, upon orders from his domineering second wife, ran her over with a car, and later went to jail on assault (the charge was trumped up by the second wife).
Shi Dongqing's family went broke overnight, while his second wife suffered a stroke after she went to Jianing's house to attack her.
He vowed to attain great wealth, going to no ends to achieve them, even working for the man who was responsible for his father's death: Fang Huakang.