The story of "Mid-aged Love Story" takes place in a prosperous city. The male protagonist Lin Qiang is an ordinary man who is nearly forty years old. He once had a failed marriage. After the divorce, his career fell into a trough. He worked as an ordinary clerk in a small company and lived an ordinary life. Because of his previous failures, he almost lost confidence in love and life. The heroine Su Yao is a successful woman in the workplace. She is a middle-level manager of a large company in her thirties. She is beautiful, confident, and independent. However, because she has been busy with her career, she has been blank in love, and her high standards have also discouraged many suitors.