A legendary figure in the business world, he built one of the country’s largest conglomerates and is regarded as a living myth of the corporate elite. His rise, however, was anything but clean. In his youth, he endured constant contempt and obstruction from the aristocratic class, experiences that left deep marks on him.
Determined that his son Tae Ju would never face the same prejudice, he planned for him to marry into a noble family, believing that even partial aristocratic status would offer protection from the discrimination he once suffered.
Unlike Tae Ju, however, Hui Ju is fiercely capable and ambitious. If not for the stigma of being born out of wedlock, she would have been more than qualified to inherit his position. Yet her relentless drive reminds him too much of his own desperate past, and the guilt he feels toward Tae Ju and his mother weighs heavily on him. Hoping to restrain her ambitions, he considers marrying her off to an unremarkable man, only to be shocked when Hui Ju instead sets her sights on Grand Prince Yi An, revealing an ambition that rivals his own.
(Source: MBC)
