Half a step away from happiness

In the 1980s, Chen Guilin (played by Li Naiwen), a son of Shengli Steel Factory, took the college entrance examination with his girlfriend. He had extremely beautiful and literary visions for the future, but there was often a huge gap between dreams and reality. Guilin failed the college entrance examination, but his girlfriend who successfully passed the college entrance examination resolutely broke up with him. After that, he replaced his father and worked in a steel factory, where he became familiar with two beautiful girls, Lu Shuxian (played by Wang Yang) and Xue Xiaoju (played by Yuan Yu). Maybe Guilin is destined to be half a step away from the ideal happiness. He failed to enter the wedding hall with Shuxian, who was in love with him, but started a family with Xiaoju. Time flies, and the old boys and girls gradually mature, and experience creeps onto their cheeks. When trials and tribulations come one after another, friendship and family become extremely precious...