Li Yang, a modern young man, accidentally traveled back to the courtyard houses of Beijing in the 1960s. With the wisdom and courage of modern people, he gradually accumulated wealth in that era of scarcity and eventually became a generation of nouveau riche. In the process, he established deep feelings with his neighbors in the courtyard, and also started a tortuous love story with the beautiful village girl Liu Xiaofang. The bully in the courtyard wanted to marry Liu Xiaofang, but was finally defeated by Li Yang, and the courtyard became happy and warm from then on.
