A Heart Lost to Desire

Episode 1

Ivy Lane can't walk into a room without turning heads, and tonight is no exception. At a party with her boyfriend, Leo Bard, she finally meets the friends he's kept her away from for years—and one of them, Sam Shaw, can't stop staring. The evening ends with a message from Sam that's part flirtation, part admiration, and it rattles Ivy so badly she nearly drops her phone. Something about the message—and the man who sent it—has already slipped under her skin.

Episode 2

Ivy brushes off the strange message and gets back to normal life, but the party has left her shaken. Leo apologizes for springing his friends on her, blaming himself for her dizziness at the club. At work, her manager hands her a career-changing assignment: a private company dinner that only the board knows about. Ivy protests that she lacks experience, but the decision is already made. It's a golden chance to earn her permanent position—and an invitation straight into Sam Shaw's world.

Episode 3

It's Ivy and Leo's third anniversary, and he surprises her at home with a home-cooked meal. Over dinner, Ivy asks how well he really knows Sam Shaw. Leo downplays it—their families once did business, the Shaws far bigger than the Bards, and the connection faded. He mentions Sam was once nearly expelled from school until his grandfather donated a building. Then Leo pulls out a ring. He wants to marry her. Ivy hesitates, but Leo promises to bring her to meet his mother that weekend. The question hangs: what is Leo really hiding?

Episode 4

Ivy arrives at the private dinner and realizes the mysterious VIP everyone has been whispering about is none other than Sam Shaw. Her colleagues and her manager are visibly nervous, fawning over him before he even sits down. Sam walks in with the calm of a man who owns the room, and the whole table scrambles to please him. Ivy, meanwhile, is frozen—she never told anyone she knows him. The collision she's been dreading is about to happen in front of her boss.

Episode 5

At the table, Ivy's manager tries to secure an exclusive interview with Sam, who deflects with practiced ease. Then Sam recognizes Ivy, and the room shifts. Someone notes they're old acquaintances—what luck. Ivy tries to keep her distance, insisting she has a boyfriend and should keep things professional. Sam leans in with a quiet provocation: she seems afraid of him. Ivy doesn't flinch. With her boss watching and Sam studying her, the interview she was assigned just became far more personal than she bargained for.

Episode 6

Ivy confronts Sam about the message he sent after the party. He claims it was a prank—a friend grabbed his phone and sent something he never saw. He apologizes, then turns the tables, curious what the text said to make her so upset that she deleted him. Ivy backs off, saying it was a misunderstanding. The drive ends in heavy silence. Whatever the truth is, Sam isn't confessing, and Ivy can't tell if she's been played or if she's the one who misread everything.

Episode 7

Ivy's manager's attitude toward her flips overnight. The reports she was once scolded over no longer matter—he praises her as a standout new hire. Then he drops the real news: because she and Sam Shaw are old acquaintances, she'll handle the entire interview with him personally. If she delivers, he'll move her from editorial to the reporting desk. Ivy accepts, grateful and determined. But being handed Sam on a platter means there's no more avoiding him—or the questions he keeps asking.

Episode 8

Leo picks Ivy up to meet his mother, and the dinner turns cold fast. His mother notes Ivy's parents died in a car accident and that her uncle's family raised her—then warns that pity isn't love, and that any man drawn to Ivy's beauty and sad story might mistake sympathy for something real. She makes the family's standard clear: they want a daughter-in-law of equal standing who can help Leo. Ivy holds her ground, refusing to be talked out of her three-year relationship. Then Leo asks her to marry him.

Episode 9

Leo proposes engagement on the spot, but his mother refuses to bless it until his father agrees—and insists on visiting Ivy's uncle's family properly first. Leo swears nothing will stop them. Meanwhile, Ivy goes to Sam's company for the interview but is blocked at the entrance. When she finally reaches him, Sam isn't interested in business talk. He throws the past in her face, hinting at an old misunderstanding between them. The wound is still open.

Episode 10

Ivy apologizes for the misunderstanding, and Sam accepts—mostly. He tells her to come directly to him next time, then agrees to the interview on one condition: she becomes his companion for three days of financial dinners and events. In exchange, he'll give her a seat at her idol's lecture. Ivy refuses the three days but strikes a deal—one day only. Sam, ever the businessman, accepts the counteroffer. The interview begins, but the terms are already far from professional.