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 Shumao 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 Xiaona, a rich heiress. With that objective, he works with his childhood friend Zhao Yajing who's secretly in love with him. However, Shi Xiaona always stepped in between them. But when Shi Xiaona's father, considering Yan Shumao too humble to be his son-in-law, sanctions him, Yang Shumao realizes the social difference between him and Shi Xiaona and drifts away from her.

Yang Shumao 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 Yajing and wants her as her daughter-in-law.