Merice Achtridel is a spoiled daughter of a count. She lost her mother in her early childhood and grew up with her father. Everything seems normal until she's been introduced to a woman with two daughters close to her age. Count Achtridel remarries and on Merice's 12th summer, her father dies. Her stepmother, Rodelfe, becomes the new Countess while she, the late Count's daughter is kept hidden as a maid in the master's bedroom where the portrait of the late Countess is in. These bring changes to Merice's life. She becomes desperate but a chance is given to her by her godmother on the day of the Crown Prince's birthday banquet. This is the beggining of a huge whirlwind of emotions and struggles that will unknowingly destroy the women of Achtridel.