The film is inspired by China's "breakthrough zero" for gold medals in the Chinese Winter Olympics, telling the story of the Winter Olympics athletes struggling to forge ahead and win glory for the country. In 1980, the Chinese delegation began to participate in the Winter Olympics, and repeatedly missed the gold medal. The failure and unwillingness stabbed the hearts of the Chinese like a needle. In order to achieve zero breakthroughs, Qin Shan formed the Chinese national short-track speed skating team represented by Yang Fan and was ordered to be ashamed in the face of danger. The two launched an attack on the gold medal, and the relationship between master and apprentice was also faced with fierce collisions and many tests. (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Ding Zhonghua, who settled in the city, returns to the countryside to celebrate the birthday of his 69-year-old father Ding Baogen. The old and seriously ill father is unwilling to go to the city with Ding Zhonghua. Even if living would be easier with his son, he is not ready to let go of his hometown and his lost wife. Ding Zhonghua does not know, whether he should let his father live in his homwtown, or to force him to the city for medical treatment....

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.

Ma Chenggang, a wealthy man in Xihong City, worries that his eldest son is too spoiled to succeed him. Determined to raise a capable successor, he takes an unconventional approach. They conceal their wealth, moving the family to a dilapidated neighborhood, and maintain an illusion of poverty, so that his son could develop qualities such as hard work, knowledge, careful budgeting, physical fitness, and perseverance.

Fang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while singing karaoke at the KTV place. Li Pei Ru is a real estate agent from Hong Kong who has vowed to make her fortune in the cosmoplitan Beijing, but is caught up in the complexities of life and ends up becoming a mistress of a married man.

70 year old Shen Yanhong (played by Yang Ziqiong) was sent to a nursing home by her son after falling seriously ill, and the house was also rented out by her son. In order to regain her life, she tried to make money but encountered obstacles everywhere. Just as she was about to give up, her talent in the Rubik's Cube was discovered by young Rubik's Cube coach Xiao Wu. One wants to make money and leave the nursing home, while the other wants to save the dying Rubik's Cube training class. The two hit it off and appeared on TV programs. From the beginning, she not only gained fame and fortune, attention, dignity, love, and initiative in life, but also brought vitality to the stagnant nursing home. She was not afraid of failure, fought against aging and prejudice, and arrived at the highest stage of the Rubik's Cube all the way. Finally, with her son's encouragement, she completed an extremely difficult challenge and won the Guinness World Record.

The stories of four couples reflect Chinese views on love and marriage.