A realistic elite romance drama, the protagonists are all highly educated and ambitious elites from various countries. The theme is to explore the relationship between joining the world and academics, as well as the relationship between real destiny and spirituality and love. There are some ideal feelings about family and country, but the main line is that everyone of the opposite sex loves Chen Ranzhi.
Chen Ranzhi, a theoretical physicist from a poor background, just joined Z University and met Xu Qingnan, a divorced and single history professor. The two gradually attracted each other because of their respective growth, studies, and academic experiences; Chen Ranzhi's old love Zhang Chenyao appeared on the scene. In order to renew their relationship with her, after several twists and turns, they lost each other in reality, and Zhang Chenyao turned to protect Chen Ranzhi spiritually. At a time of uncertainty, Chen Ranzhi discovered the female student's love for Xu Qingnan and went to participate in the Antarctic scientific expedition in despair, and reunited with his old friend Takahashi Ichiro when he was studying in the UK. Xu Qingnan never gave up and pursued Chen Ranzhi unswervingly. Following the clues given by Chen Ranzhi's daughter Gao Qiaoxiang, he pursued her to Japan and had a happy ending in a foreign country.
The female protagonist possesses both the rationality and emotional vulnerability of the academic elite, while the male protagonist is an elite image of liberal arts intellectuals in contemporary academic circles with a mature and calm demeanor. Zhang Chenyao is an elegant intellectual, with the same emotional fragility as the heroine. He portrays the heroine but is unable to stay together for a long time, which is a certain tragedy. Takahashi Ichiro is an international overseas intellectual, and his family background is a Japanese temple family (refer to the image of the male protagonist in "9 to 5"), but he betrayed his family inheritance and became a theoretical physicist, which has quite distinctive personal characteristics. The fates of these characters are intertwined and contrasted with each other through Chen Ranzhi, forming a picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" for contemporary intellectuals.
Each man represents a contradictory solution between the pursuit of love and reality.
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