What side is love on?
Vera and Rodrigo are absolutely passionate about each other and get married, having João as the product of their love. But, like any other marriage, their relationship has its ups and downs between intense passion and their differing life views. Vera is a up and coming lawyer and Rodrigo an agronomy engineer. She's an urban woman who doesn’t do well in a rural environment while he loves the country and bulls, not too keen on city life.
To make things worse, along comes Eduardo, Vera's boss and a brilliant but vicious lawyer. He hopes to prevent any possibility of reconciliation between Vera and Rodrigo and ensure that Vera keeps full custody of their son João. He wants this because, when he was deployed in Angola as a military, Eduardo swore to Rodrigo’s father João Maria, that he’d have his revenge.
The spouses of Vera and Viktor Novikova are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary. At the celebration, they invited Vera's sister, Nina, and her fiancé, Igor, to their home. But the holiday failed. In the evening, Nina is found dead on the street. At the same time, Valentin, who was Nina's fiance four years ago, appears in the city. Then Vera found out that he was a drug dealer and testified against him. Now Valentin is full of desire to take revenge on Vera and Igor, who took his beloved away from him.
A poor but beautiful woman comes to the city looking for her husband ... who is married to another woman, the evil Gloria. While she falls in love to a handsome and good hearted doctor, she decides to work at nights to earn money at a "Model School" which is, in reality, a high profile brothel...
Through a strange combination of circumstances, Xu Chun Chun catches the eye of the Zhou family which has a reputation for being the world's number one tea merchant. They intend to have her marry their precious son Zhou Jun Jue who is the legitimate heir of the family. Xu Chun Chun may be the only daughter in their silk manor but she is continually oppressed by her stepmother. As a way out of her situation, Xu Chun Chun grits her teeth and accepts the wedding proposal. She wants nothing more than to be divorced but finds herself in a bind because Zhou Jun Jue has fallen in love with her.