For several years, screenwriter Tang Xin has been in love with her manager Tang Yu—even though he is smitten with her best friend! She’s been bottling up her emotions, hoping nobody will discover her secret. That all changes one fateful day when her friend finally tells Tang Yu she isn’t interested in her. Tang Xin plucks up the courage to confess her true feelings to her boss. Who promptly rejects her! Crestfallen, Tang Xin decides to turn over a new leaf – and hands in her resignation. But Tang Yu doesn’t want Tang Xin to leave the company, and tries to convince her to stay.

A story revolving around the people who put in half a century of hard work and labor to build a forest in Saihanba. In the year 1960's, a group of young graduates majoring in forestry from 18 provinces get together to work with a 369 member team for an important project. To lessen the harm brought on by the harsh desert and to establish a source of water, Feng Cheng and Qin Xue Mei become the first generation of tree builders.

In 1918 Shanghai, Zhong Wan and her classmate Xie Yibai join forces to organize literacy classes for dock workers. As they fight for workers' rights, they develop shared beliefs and aspirations, inspiring people and helping He Baoren during the turbulent times leading up to the May Fourth Movement.