This is the story of four youngsters, a man and three women who will love him, who grew up together in Beijing and will go through the twists and turns in life. In the winter of 1979, Yang Shu Mao returns home after graduating. He hopes to climb the social ladder and become a business to be at the level of his first love, Shi Xiao Na, a rich heiress. With that objective, he works with his childhood friend Zhao Ya Jing who's secretly in love with him. However, Shi Xiao Na always stepped in between them. But when Shi Xiao Na's father, considering Yan Shu Mao too humble to be his son-in-law, sanctions him, Yang Shu Mao realizes the social difference between him and Shi Xiao Na and drifts away from her. Yang Shu Mao then realized that Ye Fei, his other childhood friend, is the most perfect partner for him. But his mother thinks otherwise, as she is much closer to Zhao Ya Jing and wants her as her daughter-in-law.