- A gym teacher buys an ancient pipe at an auction his friend is holding to raise money and save his ancestral home. Later that night, after reading the markings on the side of the pipe, he summons the ghost of Lim Seok-jeong who helps him lead his students to victory in an important athletic competition.
- Yong-cheol's plans to mary Ok-rim are destroyed by her parents who marry her off to Cheol-ju. Yong-cheol becomes powerful in the business world during the following years and he does his best to make life miserable for Cheol-ju and Ok-rim.
- Mi-yeong becomes the head of the family after her mother dies. Her older brother suffers from cerebral palsy and her younger brother is very ill. To make her finances stretch more, Mi-yeong commits her elder brother to a state run asylum while she takes a job in a brothel to earn money for her younger brother's medicin…