It's not an idol drama with fluffy romance, so I think this is not for everybody.
The drama sets in late 70s (Mao era) tells about a bunch of teenage kids from military family background, how they struggled with their life, chasing their dreams and love life. Then Deng era begin, they took the advantage from economic reform and became businessmen that change their life and became prosperous.

Some of them have successful life with happy families and some of them failed, the story ends in early 2000s when an epidemic hits China, I think it's SARS although they only said it's a highly contagious pneumonia.

The acting is really good from all the cast, Xiao Zhan acting has improve a lot, it's a realistic drama with the cast wear minimum make up and they look more human compare to idol dramas where everybody have flawless skin.