After her mother Li Huanying is fatally injured in a car accident in 2001, grief-stricken Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she becomes her mother's close friend. Jia Xiaoling feels that she has not been a good enough daughter in the present, so back in 1981 she does all she can to make Li Huanying happy, including setting her up with a factory manager's son, Shen Guanglin, in the hope of giving her mother a better husband, a better daughter, and a better life than she had the first time around.
Ma Liu has a happy family, but a paternity test leads him to learn that his son may not be "his own", and in a fit of grief, he and his wife Niu Yun engage in a battle of wits.
During the period of the Republic of China, the Song family troupe suddenly broke into a wounded female revolutionary, Bai Rouge. Bai Rouge was chased and killed all the way by external warlord forces. Song Xiaodong, the second son of the Song family, saved Bai Rouge righteously in order to protect the life of his comrade. Song Xiaodong led the brothers to escort Bai Rouge out of the city to start a unique battle of wits and courage with the enemy, and staged a thrilling battle of life and death.
