Half-side Building

In the mid-1980s, five families, Huang, Yuan, Huyan, Zhu and Ma, lived in a partially demolished half-side building in the family courtyard of a university in an ancient northwest city. Hu Yan, a lecturer in the Department of Biology, became a competitor with his mentor Huang Geng in the appraisal of professional titles. Both parties fell into conflict and pain. In the end, both of them put their careers first and withdrew from the appraisal of professional titles. The new principal Yuan Yun considered the overall situation and awarded Hu Yan the title of deputy senior professional, thus ending this annoying "competition". But in her twilight love affair with Huang Geng, the female principal was still unable to recover. Similarly, Hu Yan was also in a dilemma when it came to love. For the sake of their respective careers, he and his wife Yang Yang finally broke up. Amid conflicts and pain, he went through many twists and turns and finally bravely accepted the true love of female college student He Na for him...