After ten years of marriage, Gu Yue meets Fabien, a romantic Frenchman, by chance. At last, she begins to examine her marriage and give in to her desires. Gu Yue has an affair, unaware that her husband is treating her the same way. In the end, after ten years of standing by each other through thick and thin, they divorce. Gu Yue and Li Xiao also grow rich by riding the wave of the times, but their insatiable greed ultimately leaves them cast aside by its relentless current. They regret their choices and blame themselves, yet in the end they are reduced to specks of dust, lost in the vast crowd and doomed to live ordinary, uneventful lives.
