A Shanghai Striver’s Story

Li Yiming, a graduate of Shanghai Oriental University, and his classmates and friends strive for their ideals and love in this cosmopolitan metropolis.

Li Yiming and Jincheng Lan are from Shanghai, Lin Xijun is from Sichuan, Wang Luochun is from Shandong, and Yang Ran is from Qinghai. People from all corners of the country converge in Shanghai, where they live through one twist-filled story after another about fame, ambition, ideals, and reality.

Along the way there is success and failure, loyalty and betrayal, moments in the spotlight and lives spent in obscurity. Woven together, they paint vivid portraits of youth, hard work, and love.