Princess Suk-kyeong goes out to the world one day with the court ladies. At the market, everything seems new to her. She helps herself to some food vendor not knowing the fact that she has to pay, and gets in trouble. A scholar attending Seonggyungwan (a reknown Confucian school of the Joseon Dynasty) witnesses the scene and pays the bill. After the incident, she falls in love with the scholar and suffers lovesickness. Around that time, the scholar passes the national exam and marries her through court's matchmaking.