After seven years together, Victoria's fiancé Ryan asks her to pause their wedding for three years so he can fulfill the "last wishes" of his supposedly terminally ill childhood sweetheart, Lily. Instead of waiting, Victoria calls off the engagement and withdraws every resource she once lent him—his company collapses overnight. She finds a new, equal love with the respectful Alexander, while Ryan, his illusion shattered and his fortune gone, finally wakes up to his own mistakes and lets go. In the end, they each move forward on their own terms