Youth Tastes Bitter, So Add Sugar

The story begins in 2015, when Wu You meets and falls in love with her drill instructor, Zhou Yi, during military training. At university, Wu You joins the Youth Volunteer Association and meets Chu Mingxuan, someone she wishes she had met years earlier. Together, they go through one story after another. Zhou Yi is on the verge of finding love and success when, in 2017, he receives a secret assignment. Unsure whether he will survive, he fakes an affair to break up with Wu You. After their breakup, Chu Mingxuan stays by her side. Then, in 2019, a public health crisis breaks out. Wu You rushes to Xiaogan Central Hospital as a frontline volunteer, where she sees Zhou Yi again. Meanwhile, Chu Mingxuan, working as a reporter, travels between regions and becomes infected. When he secures access to an experimental drug, he doesn't know that Wu You has also been infected. Knowing the state of his own health, Chu Mingxuan joins forces with Zhou Yi to give Wu You the chance to survive. Wu You is the one who makes it through. How will she face Chu Mingxuan's absence, and what lies ahead for her and Zhou Yi?