Fang Mingyuan broke up with his college girlfriend Li Yuan before going to Cambridge University to study abroad. After arriving in England, Feifei, a girl who fell in love with studying music, got engaged. However, Feifei married a local for her future. Fang Mingyuan married a French woman, Mano, and divorced four years later. Later, Fang Mingyuan met a person he liked very much-Raj, a Korean female doctor. They got married and had a son and a daughter. Fang Mingyuan, who is not confused, feels happy-he has a wife and children.

The novel also tells the love and marriage stories of Ethan, Fang Mingyuan's sister Fang Liping, Feifei and Reggie.

Men and women who have experienced the tempering of love and marriage feel helplessly: life is the regret of awakening all the way.