Two successful professionals in a complicated relationship have no use for marriage. But through times thick and thin, their attitudes change.

Lin Fen Fen is working hard to become a singer but continually fails the auditions. Through a series of events, she is discovered by a company and enters her idol training. Through hard times and lots of work, Fen Fen chases her dreams, forges new friendships, and discovers love.

It has been ten years since Feng Xiaoqin, a foreign daughter-in-law married with a big belly, to the Gu family, but Gu Qingyu, the eldest aunt, has always been wary of this woman who wrote "change her destiny" on her face. Feng Xiaoqin urged her husband Gu Lei to borrow money from her twin sister Gu Qingyu to buy a house, but Gu Qingyu deftly resolved her and revealed her plan to buy a luxury house. After Gu Lei's unexpected death, the conflict between aunts and sisters continued to escalate, and the single mother Feng Xiaoqin was almost desperate. For the dream of her youth, Gu Qingyu reshaped her cognition of life in reality and dreams, from flash marriage to flash divorce. The two women have gone from confrontation to mutual understanding. No matter how stormy the future may be, they will carry the family together.

Lian Cheng Jue is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel A Deadly Secret. The series was first broadcast on NMTV in China in 2004.