Recap

            To start with, I have to mention that the show is layered with countless plots and storylines of side characters and as much as all of them are equally entertaining, I can only summarize it to some extent in this article. So, this is how the story goes: Bihter Yöreoğlu is a young woman, the daughter of a rich man who lost his reputation and money because of gambling and later on died of a heart attack when he found out about his wife’s, Bihter’s mother’s, adultery. When the father, Melih Yöreoğlu died, Bihter, her mother Firdevs and her sister Peyker had to pay all of his debts, and they were no longer rich. They were actually poor, to be honest, poor to the point where they had to sell their family house next to the Bosphorus, “yalı” in Turkish, and Firdevs, a woman of approximately 50, considered remarrying to solve her monetary problems. Adnan Ziyagil, a rich widow of approximately 50 too, was obviously a catch for Firdevs but when Adnan announced that he wanted Bihter’s hand in marriage instead of Firdevs’, she went along with it. It didn’t matter that she married Adnan or not as long as she could regain her social status in the upper-class, and she could with her daughter’s marriage. Everything with their marriage was going fine until Bihter developed a romantic relationship with Behlül Haznedar, Adnan’s niece, but not really because Behlül’s father was close friends with Adnan before his death so Adnan took him under his wing and became Behlül’s “uncle”. Moving on, while Bihter was cheating on Adnan with Behlül, Adnan’s daughter, Nihal, developed a crush on Behlül which later on transformed into an obsession. During all this, Behlül found out about Nihal’s feelings towards him, and they somehow decided to get married because Behlül didn’t want Nihal to be upset. Bear in mind, these two were raised as cousins, and no one really understood how they came to this decision but everyone went along with it since Nihal is a spoilt dramatic brat who faked fainting whenever things didn’t go her way but I could write a whole other article about that. So Behlül getting together with Nihal meant he had to stop seeing Bihter, because Nihal would “die from misery” if she ever found out. That’s what happened eventually, someone died from misery but unfortunately it wasn’t Nihal, it was Bihter. On Nihal and Behlül’s wedding day, Bihter shot herself just after the creepy butler, Beşir, who knew about Behlül and Bihter’s affair, told Adnan about them. Following this whole incident, all of the characters were a mess, really.

            Just to summarize what happened after that day: The wedding was cancelled, of course and Nihal was admitted to a psych ward, Behlül became homeless, Beşir died, half of Firdevs’ face was paralyzed, Adnan, Bülent (Adnan’s son), Matmazel (Nihal and Bülent’s nanny) and Nihal moved into a new house. Bihter died too, obviously, but what if she hadn’t?