After her mother's death, Augusta, along with eleven other slaves, plot to escape to freedom in Canada. But when the Master's son comes back from college, she'll have to find a quick way to freedom or be forever in the clutches of her enemy.

Wu Choi is an orphan who lives with her grandmother while struggling to make ends meet, but her life is turned upside down when she is saved from robbers by a mysterious silver-haired man one evening. Finding a strange pendant afterwards, Choi is pulled into a dangerous web of events as her life intertwines with the powerful Xiu family and the enigmatic Liang. Can she survive and find happiness in the process?