Burdened by a debt of gratitude owed to the previous generation, Jiang Yanzhou has spent years being pressured by his parents to accommodate his cousin, Lu Cheng'an. Even his engagement to his childhood sweetheart is taken away from him. After being deliberately set up and injured in an incident, he leaves without saying goodbye, carrying a heart turned cold, and joins the secluded South China Research Institute. With three years of closed-door research ahead and an uncertain future, can he use his technological expertise to rewrite his destiny? And how will the long-delayed truth and remorse eventually find their way to him?