Three years after the college entrance examination, the Fang family, Qiao family, and Ji family reunited. The former teenager has entered the critical period of college: Fang Yifan pursued his dream of being an actor at Nortel but encountered an acting bottleneck; Qiao Yingzi studied astronomy at Nanjing University but faced employment difficulties; Ji Yangyang went to Germany as an exchange student and suffered from loneliness in a foreign land; Lin Leier suffered from academic anxiety while pursuing graduate studies at Tsinghua University. At the same time, middle-aged parents are also struggling to make ends meet on their respective tracks - Fangyuan encounters a bottleneck in the workplace, Tong Wenjie is struggling between childcare and career, Song Qian and Qiao Weidong still need to get along after their remarriage, and Ji Shengli struggles to balance promotion and family companionship.
From the "score battle" to the "life choice battle", the intergenerational conflict has changed its shape but has never gone away; from the "college entrance examination rollout" to the "adult confusion", the pain of growing up continues to spread in the new stage. The three families experienced workplace crises, marriage tests, and health anxiety in their daily lives, and they also learned understanding and tolerance through mutual support. Fang Yifan chooses between sticking to his original intention and the temptation of fame and fortune, while Qiao Yingzi finds a balance between ideal love and the expectations of her parents. They complete the transformation from youth to maturity while caring about each other in a different place and watching in the same city.
This is a warm realist work about the "post-college entrance examination era". It continues the original work's creative concept of "not selling anxiety, only providing an outlet", focusing on the confusion of contemporary youth in the "emerging adulthood period" and the "secondary growth" of middle-aged people. When teenagers lose their childishness and learn to take responsibility, when parents let go of their obsessions and embrace change, the understanding and protection hidden in ordinary days are the warmest light that illuminates the road ahead.
