After being a star student in high school, Junko Harumi finds herself in her early thirties having failed at love, college entrance exams and good employment. Working at a cram school as a tutor bereft of hope and motivation, she spends her days believing she’ll be fired at any moment. Then one day, a knuckle-headed, delinquent teen named Kyohei Yuri appears before her. “I want you to get me into the University of Tokyo,” he says. Having herself failed to get into the country’s most prestigious university, Junko refuses thinking it beyond her abilities, but then is overpowered by Kyohei’s strong will and desire, and finally relents. In the process, she is surprised when her handsome cousin, Masashi Yakumo, an elite trade company man, returns from working overseas and suddenly proposes marriage to her. With her life suddenly taking a turn for the better, can Junko get Kyohei into the University of Tokyo from a bottom-feeder high school? And is she destined to find the love to set her life on a new path?


고등학생까지 우등생이었지만 지금은 사랑도 수험도 취직에도 실패한 30대 전반의 하루미 준코는 근무처인 입시학원에서 희망도 의욕도 없이 잘리기 직전이다. 어느 날 그런 그녀 앞에 삼류불량학교에 다니는 유리 쿄헤이가「나를 도쿄대에 입학시켜달라」
며 찾아온다.
자기 자신도 도쿄대학 입시에 실패했기에 다른 사람을 합격시킬 수 없을 것이라며 거절하지만 쿄헤이의 기세에 눌려 결국 승낙하게 된다. 그러던 중 명석한 두뇌에 엘리트인 이종사촌 야쿠모 마사시가 해외 부임에서 돌아오더니 준코에게 갑자기 프러포즈를 한다!?
삼류고교에서 도쿄대 합격이라는 무모한 도전을 준코와 쿄헤이는 달성할 수 있을까? 준코는 운명의 사랑과 만날 수 있을까?


直到高中以來都是一名優等生的春見順子，但在戀愛、大學考試和找工作方面都不斷失敗，現在已經是30多歳了，只好在大學補習班當老師，過着沒有任何希望和動力的日子，每天面臨被解雇的危險。
有一天，一個低能學校的不良高中生由利匡平來對她説“請讓我考上東京大學”。 雖然因爲自己的入學考試也是不及格，所以覺得不可能而拒絕的順子，但被充滿干勁的匡平迫得最終還是接受這個工作。
同時，頭脳聡明而在商社工作的帅表哥八雲正志，從國外赴任回來並突然向順子求婚！？
順子到底能不能完成讓匡平從底層高中考上東京大學這個欠斟酌的挑戰？ 順子是否能遇到命運的戀愛？

Beniko was raised in a poor family, while Rinko is a noble lady of the Kiyose family. In the middle of an inheritance fight, Rinko is poisoned to death. Masahiko was raised like an older brother to Rinko, and Beniko pleads to him to buy her as a stand-in for Rinko. Masahiko accepts her offer because he wishes to get revenge on Rinko's murderer. In order to save her family, Beniko crawls up out from her difficult life and begins living as Rinko in the Kiyose family. She then begins to get wrapped up in the fierce battle over the Kiyose family's status and fortune.


昭和１２年。四民平等と謳われながらも、いまだ身分の差が激しい時代。
貧しい大工の娘、山田紅子（安達祐実）は食べ物を盗むために入った別荘で、子爵令嬢の清瀬凜子（安達祐実）と出会います。瓜二つの紅子と凜子。その容貌は、凜子と兄弟のように育ち、凜子を愛する久我山真彦（鳥羽潤）も見間違うほどでした。同じ容貌でありながら、かたやその日食べる米にも苦労する貧乏人。かたや、何不自由なく生きる子爵家の令嬢。運命の皮肉を呪いながらも、紅子は必死に生きようとします。しかし、凜子が家督争いの中、毒殺されたことで、紅子の人生が大きく変わります。
「アタイを買って。アタイが凜子になってあげる」真彦は凜子の死を隠し、紅子は凜子として生きていくことになります。しかしそれはさらなる地獄への扉でした…。