Xiang Yuan, who once unsuccessfully pursued Xu Yan Shi in school, reunites with him as an adult. While she works to save a company and he struggles to follow his dream of becoming a navigation engineer, they support each other through challenges and grow together.
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To prevent her grandfather from forcing her into a marriage, Xiang Yuan, a popular game streamer, proposes to work for Donghe's subsidiary, Weilin, and promises to increase the company's revenue by 10%. Her grandfather agrees to let her work under three conditions: no financial support, no promotion to general manager, and hiding her identity as the granddaughter of the chairman.
Li Yongbiao introduces Xiang Yuan to Xu Yanshi, while Li Qing blatantly states that Xiang is here to replace Xu's position. Xiang Yuan immediately understands Xu's difficult situation and instinctively feels the need to protect him. Li Qing brings up the issue of frequent complaints regarding inaccuracies, but Xu Yanshi deflects the problem by citing the lack of funding for field surveys.
Xiang Yuan is questioned by her colleagues for taking leave soon after joining the company. Xu Yanshi proves that Xiang was working during the trip and diverts everyone's attention from the issue. Later, Xu invites Xiang to a celebration, which she hesitates at first but eventually attends. Xiang and Xu reminisce about their high school days, and Xu wishes Xiang the best in getting what she wants.
Xu Yanshi rides a bike with Xiang Yuan and encounters Feng Jun. Xiang Yuan invites Yanshi to her birthday party, but he declines. She then encourages everyone to complete the order from Mingxiong Electronics, but everyone goes to a dinner party instead. Only Zhang Jun stays behind to help her.
Huang Qiming insults Xu Yanshi in various ways, mocking him as incompetent. Xiang Yuan agrees, and this is witnessed by Ying Yinyin, who is drinking at a dinner party next door. She immediately takes a video and sends it to Xu Yanshi. Xu Yanshi has already arrived at the restaurant where Xiang Yuan is at when he receives the video. Xu Yanshi then watches as Xiang Yuan bids farewell to Huang Qiming.
Xu Yanshi teams up with Xiang Yuan under the name of Lao Qing for the competition, offering to let Lao Qing and Xiang Yuan distribute the prize money themselves. To keep it a secret, Xiang Yuan has to sneakily meet with Xu Yanshi, but they are always interrupted. They finally have to meet alone under the pretext of working overtime. After learning about Xu Yanshi's worries, Xiang Yuan offeres to help. Xiang Yuan's newly created performance assessment system causes Li Chi’s dissatisfaction.
Li Qin is being difficult towards over her latest performance assessment, but Xiang Yuan claims to have received approval from higher-ups. Xu Yanshi faces oppression from Li Qin and Li Yongbiao due to his lack of background, but Xiang Yuan is unaware of this. Xiang Yuan intentionally throws up on Huang Qiming as he insults Xu Yanshi, and later apologizes to him. At a school reunion, another classmate named Zhong Ling also develops feelings for Xu Yanshi.
Xu Yanshi protected Xiang Yuan at their school reunion, even defeating the troublesome Zhong Ling. After leaving the reunion, Xu Yanshi embraces Xiang Yuan and shares his past online dating experience with her when she asks if he is truly single. Xiang Yuan suspects the relationship between Xu Yanshi and Chen Shan, but Chen Shan denies it when being questioned. Xiang Yuan feels embarrassed, but Xu Yanshi is happy about it and even invites everyone to have dinner together.
The two admire the snow in Xi'an and Shanghai respectively over the phone, and on the next day, Xu Yanshi picks up Xiang Yuan at the airport and takes her home. Their relationship gradually improves after resolving the misunderstanding with Chen Shan. During a business trip to Beijing, Xiang Yuan's revised travel expense report is approved by the company, and she receives praise from the chairman in Xi'an for becoming an A-class employee and providing valuable opinions, while Ying Yinyin is criticized for mocking her.
Xu Yanshi accompanies Xiang Yuan to meet Huang Qiming and provides her cold medicine. During the party, he protects her from drinking too much and publicly praises her. Xiang Yuan is touched by Xu Yanshi's actions, but their romantic moment is then interrupted by a fight between Gao Leng and Li Chi. Xiang Yuan is knocked unconscious during the scuffle and is sent to the hospital by Xu Yanshi.
Xu Yanshi confesses his love to Xiang Yuan, but Xiang Yuan rejects him. The police question the technical team about Li Chi, and when Xiang Yuan tells them about him, she has a flashback from the past and almost faints due to psychological trauma. Fortunately, Xu Yanshi protects her by answering the police's questions.
The deadline for the design of the navigation system is approaching. Xiang Yuan and Xu Yanshi are making final improvements together. Li Chi puts on a bad attitude when being questioned about his mistakes, causing Xiang Yuan to consider transferring him to the logistics department. Xu Yanshi tries to stop her, but Xiang Yuan misunderstands that Xu Yanshi is biased towards Li Chi because he is afraid of Li Qin.
Xiang Yuan is appointed as the head of the technical department. Everyone is talking about how Xiang Yuan became the head before Xu Yanshi did. Xiang Yuan feels guilty and tries to show goodwill to Xu Yanshi, while Xu Yanshi is jealous after seeing Xiang Yuan being taken to work by Lu Dong. So he takes the opportunity to boss her around. However, Xiang Yuan becomes more convinced that Xu Yanshi resents her for becoming the department head.
The technical department team gathers at Xiang Yuan's home for a meal and plays a game of truth or dare. Xu Yanshi also loses and chooses to take a dare. He either has to call the first female on his call log and make a confession, or do push-ups. Xu Yanshi chooses to make the phone call. But when Xiang Yuan's phone rings, she feels embarrassed and quickly changes the subject.
Xu Yanshi and Xiang Yuan meet their high school friend Feng Jun and senior Lu Junliang in the competition. Feng Jun wants to stop Xu Yanshi from winning. Xu Yanshi's team eventually comes in second place. Later, Lao Qing tells Xiang Yuan about the things that happened in the past between them and Feng Jun, and the reason why Yanshi was forced to work for Velin.
Xiang Yuan and Xu Yanshi plan to prepare a celebration dinner, but the power goes out and they have to settle for instant noodles. Yanshi is worried that Xiang Yuan is being treated poorly. Xiang Yuan and Lao Qing return to Xi'an while Yanshi stays for a talk with Kesheng’s representatives. Before leaving, he also meets with Chen Shan, who apologizes for what happened in the past and shares him Xiang Yuan's childhood story. Xu Yanshi is determined to give Xiang Yuan a better life.
Xu Yanshi sends Xiang Yuan home. He sent Xiang Yuan a map applet, and then drives around the city. Xu Yan officially confessed his love to Xiang Yuan, telling her that he has always liked her. Xiang Yuan is so moved so she accept his confession, but Xu Yanshi didn't hear it because of the weak signal. When Xu Yan asks Xiang Yuan to consider, Xiang Yuan couldn't know whether to laugh or cry, and just said, yes.
The conference of Velin begins. When Karma and Xiaoxiao capture Xu Yanshi during their live broadcast by accident, his charm instantly impresses the audience, and no one pays attention to Karma. Karma is aggrieved so he complains about it to Xiang Yuan in the prop room. Xiang Yuan comforts Karma. When they were about to go out, they finds that the door is locked!
Xiang Yuan catches a cold because of being locked in the hut for too long so she hasn't gone to work for two days. When she back to work, Xiang Yuan is shocked that Xu Yanshi is reported by Li Qin for participating in the Xingheng competition without telling the company , and that she is suspended for investigation. Xiang Yuan recalls Li Qin's actions, and connected it with the incident of Karma and herself being locked in the room. Then, she realizes that they were all Li Qin's tricks.
Xu Yan is busy taking care of his younger brother, and gradually left Xiang Yuan out in the cold. Because of his younger brother, he can't take good care of Xiang Yuan, so he struggles to break up with her. Xu Yanshi does not want to repeat the same mistakes, he decides to find Xiang Yuan. She rushes back to Xi'an after receiving his message, just in time for the press conference celebration banquet. Xiang Yuan happily sits beside Xu Yanshi, but suddenly learned that - Xu Yanshi plans to resign.
Gao Leng is still trying to pursue Chen Shu, and this time he buys her a new cooking machine, but Chen Shu had already bought one with Shi Tianyou, so Gao Leng had to give up. Xu Yanshi tells Xiang Yuan that Zhang Jun will succeed him as the team leader. Xiang Yuan is surprised by Zhang Jun's resume, which is very excellent. The only problem is Zhang Jun who was sentenced to the jail.
Xiang Yuan is angry and complains to Xu Yanshi on the phone, and after a while, everyone comes. Everyone has drinks together and calls Xu Yanshi. Xiang Yuan and Xu Yanshi realize they love each other deeply and secretly convey their love. The next day, Gao Leng and Chen Shu are forced to go to Lu Dong's company for a meeting together. Chen Shu finds that Gao Leng is so attaractive when he is working seriously.
Xu Yanshi goes home with Xiang Yuan. Although he is jealous of her, he still cooks for her. Xiang Yuan knows Lu Dong watch a drama on social media, and understands why Xu Yan is angry. She directly calls Lu Dong to prove her innocence. Xu Yan also admits that he shouldn't be angry so they are reconciled with each other. Xu Yanshi gives Lu Junliang a slap in the face with the upgraded new system, and cooperates with the company again.
Xiangyuan publicly releases the recording of Li Qin instigating Lin Qingqing. At the same time, she also shows the evidence that Li Qin used to take adaventage of Weilin for being on the take over the years. Unexpectedly, the evidence is conclusive, but Li Qin is not afraid at all. Yang Pingshan ignores the evidence provided by Xiang Yuan, still defends Li Qin.
Xian Yuan's grandfather brings her and management to have dinner with Professor Liang Qin. He wants to ask Professor Liang Qin to let Donghe join the annual meeting, but Liang Qin tells him that he had already found a candidate, Xu Yan, who had just left Weilin, was his best student. He will definitely not help the company which dismissed Xu Yanshi. Everyone realizes that they had underestimated Xu Yanshi for so many years, only Xiang Yuan is happy because Liang Qin stands up for Xu Yanshi.
Li Qin was dismissed, and Xiang Yuan is promoted. Li Qin is so furious, therefore she sends the list of Weilin's related households to all the employees of Weilin. She wants everyone to hate Xiang Yuan, who is the granddaughter of president. But she doesn't expect Xiang Yuan gets closer to all employees because of this stuff.
After the chaos, Xiang Yuan bandages Xu Yanshi's wound. They are still angry at each other. Since Xu Yanshi does not expect Xiang Yuan to come with Feng Jun, and Xiang Yuan is also angry that Xu Yanshi coldly replies her message. After explanation, they realize that there is a misunderstanding between them. When Xiang Yuan knows Xu Chengli leaves, she feels more distressed for Xu Yan. They embrace each other and promise to register their marriage on May 30 when they have been together for 180 days.
When Chen Shu sees Gao Leng with wounds the next day, she blames him for acting impulsively and worries that he would get hurt. Chen Shu complains about Gao Leng to Xiang Yuan. This stimulates Xiang Yuan who knew the truth. Xiang Yuan persuades Chen Shu to stay away from Lu Dong, but Chen Shu misunderstands what Xiang Yuan means, thinking that she does not want Lu Dong to pursue her. Finally, Chen Shu quarreled with Xiang Yuan because of their different values.
When Xiang Yuan didn't contact Xu Yanshi for a day, she was so worried about him. She sees his cufflinks in the laundry room of the hospital. She only knows that Xu Yanshi is sent to the hospital when she meets Lin Kairui. Xiang Yuan wants to tell him about the current situation of Donghe but she learns that he has already acquired the interview from the Institute. Xiang Yuan cannot bear to destroy his dream so she decides to solve the problem by herself.
Liang Qin recalls Xu Yanshi, who persists in and puts lots of effort into scientific research several years ago. Liang Qin feels regretful and angry with Xu Yanshi's current choice. Xiang Yuan just knows how much Xu Yanshi sacrifices for her so she decides to persuade Xu Yanshi to take the interview.
Donghe lacks funding and Jiamian decides to sell the flight base to make up for it but it is still not enough. Xiangyuan raises funding in different banks. Feng Lei, Feng Jun's father, is willing to invest in Donghe. However, Mr. Situ suspects his purposes.
Shi Tianyou does not want to see Chen Shu and Gao Leng being embarrassed so he tells Chen Shu what Gao Leng had done for her during this period. Finally, she learns her feelings for Gao Leng and knows that he changed because of her. Therefore, she wants to do something for him. They get back together.
