This story revolves around the cold and icy "male god" professor Zhang Si Nian and the calm and sunny Yun Shu. After a fractious first meeting, where Yun Shu dressed down the especially finicky Si Nian, she was shocked to find out that he was her university lecturer. Through a series of coincidental encounters, the two agreed to engage in a contractual marriage. As the feelings between them grow, how will they keep their relationship a secret from those around them?...

In 2008, a 19-year-old village girl Liu Wenjing from Shanxi went to Shanghai all alone. There she met Huahua and Xing Tianming and made friends with them, thus her life changed. During the following decade, Liu Wenjing and her friends helped each other and fought for their own goals but Liu Wenjing gradually lost herself. Influenced by friendship and kinship, she came to her senses, abandoned her empty life and finally found back her original aspiration....