I. Story Setting**
Time: 1992–1998, the early years of reform and opening up
Place: A university and the business world in Shanghai
Central conflict: A transmigrated CEO awakens amid emotional turmoil, overcomes class barriers, and fights his way to true love.
**II. Main Characters**
- **Gu Chengzhou**: 28, a modern business empire CEO who is accidentally transmigrated back to 1992, becoming a 20-year-old economics student. Rational and decisive, he falls into a lovesick state because his memories are blurred.
- **Lin Wanyi**: 19, an unassuming, gifted philosophy student who is actually the only daughter of a Hong Kong shipping magnate. She pretends to be poor to escape her family’s control. Gentle and patient, she quietly protects the male lead.
- **Su Manqing**: 20, the belle of the Chinese department, vain and shrewd, and fond of being the center of attention. Her father is the director of a state-owned factory, and she hopes to rise in social class through marriage.
- **Lu Jingyao**: 22, the spoiled only son of a real estate tycoon. He stops at nothing to pursue Su Manqing.
