The story revolves around three troubled youths who find solace in their common experiences to become the best family that they can be for each other. Growing up in dysfunctional households, three individuals who are unrelated by blood treat each other like family as they yearn for the love that they cannot find at home. Eldest brother Ling Xiao, second brother He Zi Qiu, and youngest sister Li Jian Jian grow up together, experiencing life’s joy and strife as they support each other’s chosen paths. As Ling Xiao and He Zi Qiu graduate from high school, they return to their original families. Nine years later, the three are reunited, but the heartaches from their complicated family past become a shadow that constantly lingers. Can they finally fix their personal issues to become better versions of themselves?

During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the world was in great chaos and the people were in dire straits. Zhao Kuangyin, Qian Hongchu, and Guo Rong were three young men who met in the chaotic world. The three young men fought together in the attack and defense of the city, and shared the bitter hatred against the enemy at the royal court. They experienced the war and the death and gradually had the thought of national unification, also took up their own responsibilities. The young Qian Hongchu took up the heavy responsibility as the lord of Wuyue. Guo Rong managed to restore order to the country amidst the carnage and chaos, but his ambitions remained unfulfilled. Zhao Kuangyin, who had experienced the war, inherited Guo Rong's unfinished business and established the Northern Song Dynasty. In the end, for the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty and the well-being of the people, Zhao Kuangyin and Qian Hongchu abandoned the war and finally accomplished the peaceful unification of the country in 978 A.D..

Set in the Tang Dynasty, it tells the legendary and inspirational story of a woman who cultivated peonies and eventually helped the people of the world. He Wei Fang, the daughter of a merchant with the help of Jiang Chang Yang, an official in Chang'an, divorced from a marriage where only benefits were exchanged and fight for her own destiny by cultivating peonies with a group of illfated women in Jingcheng. By the mutual support, the two people gradually developed a secret love. After a near-death experience, the two worked together to put down a rebellion, and both retreated into the world of heaven and earth.

At the age of 28, Ruan Yu decided to give up her stable job and focus on writing full-time. She began to create novels based on her emotional experiences and published them online. However, she did not expect that her novel's plot would be pointed out by netizens as having potential plagiarism issues. Ruan Yu decided to defend her rights, and after several twists and turns, she found that the intellectual property lawyer she collaborated with was her high school crush, Xu Huaisong, who also served as the prototype for the male lead in her novel. The two reunited because of the case, and during their time together, they were once again drawn to each other. This long-standing feeling fermented in their memories and became even more steadfast through the tests of reality. Faced with new challenges in their respective careers, they fought side by side, encouraged each other, and ultimately welcomed a "belated joy" in both their careers and love lives.

Set in a crumbling psychiatric hospital in 1923. During the brief period of power transition, traitors, spies, police officers, military police and correspondents all came one after another. They all seemed normal at first, but the subsequent events were extremely crazy. A former apprentice doctor must protect the institution from various corrupt forces. As chaos ensues, he navigates the madness with the help of the hospital's inhabitants, where the line between sanity and insanity becomes increasingly unclear.