Continuation of 'At the Threshold of an Era'. The drama documents the rise and fall of three entrepreneurs, who founded Lik Tien Century Construction (力天世紀) together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free city in Hong Kong. Vendetta and love serves as strong subplots throughout the series, with the vendetta between two families being the most prominent.

Shek Chi Hong is an honest and kind person. To earn a living, Chi Hong aspires to be a chef in Man Long’s casino but he ends up becoming a dealer instead. After witnessing his teacher's death, he is more determined not to take up gambling. But somehow, he has no choice but to learn the gambling skills as it is part of the nature of his work. He goes through many turbulence in his life, losing many friends and comrades as well as love.

Game designer Zhu Yao accidentally gets drawn into a new xianxia VR game that is currently in development. There she becomes the disciple of the most beautiful male immortal Yu Yan who had to wait 16 thousand years before finally getting a disciple of his own. Yu Yan carefully teaches Zhu Yao and cherishes her a lot. But when Zhu Yao finally begins to understand some of his teachings, she suddenly dies. Yu Yan then gets a new discipline, the reborn Zhu Yao, and she dies again. He then gets another disciple, and she dies once again…

Kasahara Natsuki is a thirty year-old hairdresser from Tokyo who comes to Sapporo to relax and enjoy a vacation during the 2000 New Year's Eve festival/party. Unfortunately, she gets locked out of her room and meets Kaede Soichirou, a 25 year-old local newspaper photographer. His kind nature impresses her, but they don't exchange personal information and write it off as a chance meeting. Like all women her age, Natsuki's worried about finding shiawase (lifelong happiness) by marrying and starting a family. When she goes to a matchmaking meeting, the friend of her would-be beau is none other than Soichirou. After that meeting takes a turn for the worst, Soichirou follows her out and cheers her up by taking her up for a ride in his single-engine plane. They part company once more, still not knowing each other's names, and write it off as a chance meeting. Arriving home, Natsuki's roommate Haruko announces that her brother Soichirou will be staying with them in their house, after being transferred to Tokyo's newspaper.

Koyama Kazumi is a poor but optimistic college student who firmly believing that there are more important things than money. Despite his own poverty he ends up taking on other people's debts and faces various challenges to pay off those debts

Set in the Tang dynasty, Fang Zhao Yi is married to the emperor whom she resents, she is secretly in love with a monk. Upon strange accidents, she is transported to the Qin dynasty, followed by modern era 2014, where she meets the reincarnation of the emperor and her previous lover. She takes the opportunity to vent her anger upon the emperor, only now he is entangled within a web of affairs surrounding his inheritance. Amongst all the feud and time travel, she must decide where her heart truly lies.

Under the overall theme of unrequited love and having a crush on someone unattainable, the drama tells stories of various happenings that can arise in such relationships. The stories are told in perspectives from both man and woman, as if it were written from an omniscient point-of-view, which allows viewers to sympathize with both sides and adds another layer to seemingly ordinary incidents between men and women.