智爱（金南珠饰）从小就喜欢童话故事，而她最大的梦想就是像灰姑娘一样能够嫁给心爱的王子。智爱千挑万选的王子是医学院毕业生温达秀（吴志浩饰），一个看起来颇有前途的潜力股。但是婚后智爱才发现温达秀虽然聪明绝顶，却是那种高分低能儿。他胆小怕事，关键是心眼比针鼻还要小。温达秀从医学院毕业后，一直没有找到合适的工作，整天游手好闲，四处晃荡。智爱为了维持家用，不得不取出自己的积蓄，甚至卖掉婚戒，厚着脸皮向婆家伸手要家用。她为了节约开销不得不和之前的朋友断绝联系，放弃购物和美容。智爱四处奔波，终于为达秀谋到一份还算不错的工作，这时却发生了一件令她震惊的事。当年她的跟班飞上枝头做凤凰，实现了她未能实现的灰姑娘梦想。当初趾高气扬的智爱现在却对小跟班点头哈腰，而且还要忍受她刻薄的言语和侮辱性的行为

Ji-ae (Kim Nam-joo) has loved fairy tales since she was a child, and her biggest dream is to be able to marry her beloved prince like Cinderella. The prince chosen by Zhi Ai is Wen Daxiu (Wu Zhihao), a graduate of medical school, a promising potential stock. But after marriage, Zhi Ai found out that although Wen Daxiu is extremely smart, she is the kind of high-scoring low-energy. He is timid and afraid of getting into trouble, the key is that his mind is smaller than the nose of a needle. After graduating from medical school, Wen Daxiu has not found a suitable job, and has been idle and wandering around all day long. In order to maintain the family, Zhi Ai had to take out her savings, even sold her wedding ring, and shamelessly asked her husband's family for the family. In order to save money, she had to cut off contact with her former friends, and gave up shopping and hairdressing. Zhi Ai ran around and finally found a fairly good job for Da Xiu, but at this moment something shocked her. Back then, her follower flew up to the branch to become a phoenix, realizing her unfulfilled Cinderella dream. Zhi Ai, who was arrogant at the beginning, now bows to the little follower, and has to endure her harsh words and insulting behavior