In 2009, after the global financial crisis in Xiangcheng, this famous manufacturing city tried to find a way out.
Shen Yan, an idealistic girl who believes that "love means lasting together", protects her inner innocence on the platform of a private school.
Zheng Shijun, a young man struggling to survive in the quagmire of a state-owned enterprise, gradually moved towards a "Julian-style" transformation under the crushing reality of reality.
They met in the most beautiful years and fell in love at the purest moment. However, the weather vane of the times is turning, and competition in housing prices, household registration, betrothal gifts, and the workplace... A series of realistic rails leads the two people's lives in different directions.
Many years later, Shen Yan suddenly looked back at the sunset in the ancient village and found that the person who had promised her life was no longer the same person.
Intention: How should we protect our ideals, original intentions and love in the tide of the times?