After Serena’s stepfather abruptly marries her off to a stranger, she is forced into hiding within her new husband's mansion, never seeing or meeting him. Bound by duty, Serena endures her isolation, hoping for the day her mysterious husband will visit.
When endless waiting proves fruitless, Serena resorts to desperate measures, using a divorce threat to draw him out. The tactic works, but she’s stunned when he offers her million dollars to abandon the divorce.
She has always been useless but at that moment she believed she could be useful.