Luo Ming quits her job as an accountant and despite her husband's objections opens a bar in South China and counsels married couples.

Set in the summer of 1976, people and stories in the disaster relief after a violent earthquake.

Li Zhihua is an anesthetist at the hospital

A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.

Love story of a young calligrapher and the daughter of a supreme government official in ancient China.

The tense hours on board a stricken passenger aircraft that was on a routine flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Shortly after taking off, the pilot Li Jiatang discovers that the plane's landing gear is unable to be retracted. Unable to continue, but unable to land, he and his flight attendant wife Qiu Xiehua, are forced to circle Shanghai. Meanwhile, on the ground, a troubleshooter Liu Yuan is called to see if he can get the aircraft safely back on the ground.

The vigorous director of the Oriental Silk Factory is invited by her former husband to resign and take a position in Japan.

Grand warlord Cao Cao consults the physician Hua Tuo about his chronic headaches. Cao Cao intends to take him on as his personal physician but Hua Tao refuses.