The story begins at a cafe with an easy-to-remember name: the 35-Year-Old Cafe. Its owner, Bai Shihua, has what looks like a happy family, but is actually an unhappy one. She gave up her secure state-owned enterprise job to open a cafe so she could have time to care for her son. All sorts of people pass through the 35-Year-Old Cafe. One of them is Jin Muyao, a man whose career and love life have both gone badly. In his early thirties, he is a technical engineer facing the approaching midlife crisis of turning thirty-five. Another is Yan Linglu, an older unmarried woman who moved from Beijing to a small city. She is in a romance that seems like a good match but is actually nearing its end. Hoping to get married soon, Yan Linglu is disappointed once again. Then there's Ouyang Wentian, who entered the business world as a teenager and built a fortune worth billions for himself and his family. After seeing how the business world is a battlefield and witnessing the backstabbing at work, illness forces him to slow down. As his health declines, he comes to understand many things, and meets Bai Shihua and the others at the 35-Year-Old Cafe. Their stories may seem ordinary and familiar, but they are full of warmth. Everyone will sincerely say: Meeting you was the best luck I could have hoped for.
