After his wife’s death, retired professor Shen Zhuoran reluctantly returns to dating. He meets four very different women: a compassionate nurse, a brilliant but ill scientist, a strong-willed union leader, and a woman who reminds him of his late wife. Through these encounters, he faces love, loss, and personal growth, ultimately transforming his perspective on life and deeply affecting his family.
The story revolves around several boys and girls who grew up together along the canal, after leaving to make their own growth, reunite after many years. After experiencing competition and the pressures of life, they rediscover the hope for a new life.
In the early 80's of the 20th century, Wang Xue Hua, Dong Fang Hong and Yang Si Yu are all born on the same day. With the birth of the children, emotional entanglement of three families and two generations unfolded little by little. But soon, this peaceful families coexistence ends abruptly. The feud between the Wang's family and the Yang's family's fathers starts involving their beloved ones, and causes the two people who loved each other to separate. Unable to look at the crumbling, long-term ties, the youngest generation decides to do everything to reconcile the feuding parties.
