Liu Shanshan, a kind and upright country girl born in the early 1980s, studies hard and gets into college, changing the fate that awaited ordinary rural girls of that era: getting married, having children, and doing farm work. During her four years at college, she gains knowledge and a degree, as well as sincere friendships. After graduating, she enters the workplace, where she endures suppression and exclusion, watches a close friend turn against her, and experiences changes in personnel... In the end, through hardship and personal growth, she becomes a capable professional, finds love, buys a home in the city, and establishes herself there.
