Growing up poor in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, she had a fairly happy upbringing thanks to having a loving mother. When she is asked by her friend, Seo Yoo-ra, to go on a blind date in her place, she gets to meet Jae-jun, who happens to be the scion to the Jangsu Group fortune. But Jae-jun's and Yoo-ra's mothers give her a bad reputation by telling Jae-jun that I-sol is a girl who'll do anything for money. So their relationship ends shortly after. While still dealing with the sting of being dumped, she has to attend her grandmother's funeral and that means she needs to travel to South Korea. While going through her grandmother's belongings, she learns that the person she thought was her mother was not so. When she tracks down her biological dad, he wants nothing to do with her.
