In 1979, Jiang Yang returns to a turning point in his fate. Educated youth wife Su Jingtong is about to return to the city, using a Yanjing job as divorce compensation, convinced that if he leaves the Su family he can only be trapped in the countryside. Jiang Yang rejects the handout, retakes the path of the college entrance examination, and changes his family's life with translation, fashion design, and business acumen, also taking back his own career, reputation, and name amidst repeated framing and suppression. When Su Jingtong's adored writer "Jiang An" and her despised ex-husband become the same person, she finally discovers that the man she personally gave up has long since walked to a place she can no longer catch up to.