Graduating top of her class, Ashley Shields was offered a full ride scholarship to the prestigious SanFransokyo Institute of Technology, and took it as her way out. She planned on studying hard, getting good grades, and eventually making a life for herself outside of the pain and loneliness of her unhappy childhood. What she didn't plan on however, was the one thing she never expected. Falling in love, with the one and only Tadashi Hamada.