When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.

Zhou Nan (played by Mu Tong), a passionate young man in Bengcheng, is entrusted by market administrator Li Daguang (played by An Zehao) to help him find the lost adopted daughter Li Yan. As the investigation deepened, many clues pointed to the local human trafficking gang headed by Lao Jiu. Li Daguang tried all means to retrieve his daughter, and even sought revenge on Lao Jiu after he turned against Zhou Nan. At the same time, policeman Zhao Jia (played by Huocheng Cheng), who has been investigating the old nine, also found Zhou Nan, and together with him he retrieved the missing Li Yan and uncovered an unknown story about Li Daguang.

A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.