Epic 1 | Epic 2 | Epic 3 | Epic 4| Epic 5| Epic 6|Epic 7| Epic 8| Epic 9|Epic 10 | Epic 11 Epic 1 The arrivals lounge at the airport seems suffused with light as the beautiful woman dressed in designer clothes appears, transfixing the admiring men with her jaunty walk. Followed by onlookers' glances she goes from airport to train station, finally arriving at her home downtown. "I'm home!" She drops her suitcase with a relieved thud. No one replies as her twin sister Narumi, her father Jun'ichi and her mother Ruriko wonder who she is. This is the Saotome's oldest daughter, Honami, (Ryoko Yonekura) who has spent thousands of dollars overseas on plastic surgery. A storm of protest breaks out, but Honami pays no attention to the criticism and talk of extravagance. She was the one who had suffered from that face and decided upon this course of action. Honami's childhood friend Ryohei Takeda (Haruhiko Kato) is dumbfounded at her total transformation. She tells him he absolutely must not reveal her secret and goes into town, plotting revenge for the past and a new start for the future. Men call out to her and she is approached by a man scouting out models. She has no hesitation about choosing a new job. Her appearance has changed, but her audacity certainly has not! When she sees a coin dropped and ignored by someone who seems to be a flower shop employee, Honami automatically calls out to him, "Don't be so careless with money!" This endearing aspect of her personality certainly hasn't changed either. The "clerk's" heart goes out to this vivid person who is more than just a pretty face. This supposed clerk is actually Ryusui Fujishima (Kippei Shiina), the heir to the Fujishima school of flower arranging and a national following of 50,000 people. As the succession ceremony approachs he is the center of his mother's attention. Of course there is no way Honami could have known this.... Today Honami's target of revenge is bank employee Tadashi Yashima (Shoji Tanihara). She uses her beauty as her weapon and successfully manipulates him into inviting her out to dinner. Yashima seems to have no idea of the transformed Honami's true identity. On the contrary, he insults his girlfriend Eri, who is Honami's friend, and keeps going on and on with past stories about Honami herself. Unable to endure this Honami tells him to stuff it and leaves the restaurant. What she doesn't know is that Ryusui also happened to be eating dinner at the restaurant with Aoi, the daughter of his guardian, and witnessed the whole episode from start to finish. Several days later Honami goes to a party to which she was invited by her model friend Isaki Fujishima. Sparkling chandeler.... beautifully dressed people... the envied world of celebrities: Honami is triumphant. But she is astonished when Isaki tells her who the party is for and why it is being held. There on the platform is the man she assumed to be a clerk at the flower shop. It is the new master of the Fujishima school of flower arranging - and Isaki's older brother.