The brutal and tragic War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea demonstrated the unshakable iron will of the Chinese people, and also made Liang Bugui (played by Wu Qi) and Shi Feng (played by Wu Gang), who had no intersection and were like strangers, forge a life-and-death friendship. After seven years apart, the two people experienced different joys and sorrows in life. Liang was seriously injured for protecting Shi Feng that year, so that he and his wife Dong Liu (played by Li Jingjing) were unable to have children. Various hardships caused Dong Liu's mental breakdown and madness, and Liang's career was about to hit the bottom. Feeling guilty about the experience of his comrades, Shi Feng gave his newly born son to Liang Bugui despite the opposition of his wife Gao Xiaoyun (played by Ding Liuyuan). This decision brought him a forty-year cold war between husband and wife and the hardships of life. In the years that followed, this group of ordinary and sincere ordinary people rose and fell with the rise and fall of the ancient country...