Despite being touted as the 2009 blockbuster of the year and featuring many established actors and actresses like Zoe Tay, Li Nanxing and Fann Wong (often referred to in the press as a "Two Queen and One King" billing), the show's reception was lukewarm.
[2] The beginning was seen to be the ending of the drama, where Ye Yuchen was kidnapping Zhou Zhida, and Fang Songqiao received a call from her to meet at a dilapidated field.
[1] Years ago, Ye Songnian (Chen Shucheng), the boss of Phoenix Corporation, raped his employee, Zheng Wenyu (Hong Huifang), who was already pregnant with her husband's child at that time.
Months later, both Wenyu and Songnian's second wife, Suzhen (Lin Meijiao), give birth to daughters in the same hospital and due to the nurses' negligence, the identities of the baby girls were swapped.
Out of a mother's desire for her child to receive the best medical care coupled with hatred towards Songnian, she decided to capitalize on the situation by perpetuating the mistake.
Thus, Ye Yuchen (Zoe Tay) and Fang Songqiao (Fann Wong), whose identities were swapped, grew up in two disparate environments.
In his old age, Songnian goes into semi-retirement, having handed the running of his company to his god-sister (Jiang Ruolin) and sons (Renxiao and Renyi).
Yuchen initiates an out-of-court settlement and demands a huge compensation but Songqiao is persistent on hauling Rende to court.
Phoenix Corporation has grown into a conglomerate over the years; its business includes overseas casinos and luxurious cruise.
The second son Renxiao, is secretly obsessed with Ruolin and blindly supports everything she does, pushing for Rende's succession of Songnian's empire and treating his own wife, Yuki, coldly.
Due to her ability to keep her cool and turn situations around, she finally gains her father's trust and becomes the CEO of Phoenix Corporation.
Three years ago, she met the famous Zhang Feng (Li Nanxing), dubbed as God of Gamblers, in Macau and had planned to marry him.
She meets Zhou Zhida (Li Nanxing), who bears an uncanny resemblance to Zhang Feng (though the two are polar opposites in all other areas), and is convinced that the two are the same person.
To her, this is God-sent and knowing that the God of Gamblers does not accept female disciples, she hits upon the crazy idea of male impersonation, entering the cafés' service disguised as a man hoping to learn to gamble from Da.
The master baker at the café is Fang Songqing (Zhang Zhenhuan), Songqiao's younger brother, who has been nicknamed Prince Cake because of his strapping good looks.
He's been directionless all his life, and due to Yuchen and Sun Min's persistence that he is the God of Gambler, he begins to question his own identity.
He starts to believe he might be the God of Gamblers, and that he had suffered from amnesia due to an accident and that Bao had rescued him and brought him to Singapore to escape the feud in Macau.
Thus, he chooses to stay guard by her side though deep inside, he knows that Yuchen would ultimately trudge upon the path of no return.