Talking to the River

Sheng Xia is in a hurry to get married and bear children due to a hereditary disease. CEO Qiu Yang went through two failed marriages and now even experiences a crisis at work. To save his company, Qiu Yang is being forced to marry. Thereupon, he ends up in a contract marriage with his neighbor Sheng Xia.

After a career setback, skilled surgeon Zhang Chi joins an emergency center under the mentorship of the experienced Qi Ji. Facing intense challenges, he finds purpose in saving lives and navigating personal and professional struggles, forming a deep bond with Qi Ji in the high-stakes world of emergency medicine.

Doctor Xu Qingfeng of Yanxi Hospital and Captain Guan Yuqing, both on a voyage back from studying abroad, form a strong bond through their cooperation in helping patients, only to discover that their families each hold deep, unspoken struggles.

When a sales agent and her husband find that all their dreams may vanish into thin air due to problems at work, they scrimp and strive to make a better living for themselves. Liu Ai is the best salesperson in the business. Her husband Yang Guang is a designer. The two have a simple dream, to make enough money so that they can have kids and buy a house. Liu Ai is shocked when come year end, her boss reneges on the money that she rightfully earned, so she quits her job in a fit of temper. Already in a slump over her situation, her husband also encounters problems at work. Reality hits hard, but through the encouragement of friends, she and her husband decide to cast aside the roadblocks in their lives. Riding against the tide, Liu Ai starts a small company in a road to becoming the real queen of sales

During the 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War, Fang Yuan seeks revenge for his family’s death and joins the resistance, forming an alliance with Dr. Chen Ruge, whom he initially suspects of being a traitor. As they fight together, their bond deepens, and despite misunderstandings, they reunite after China’s victory in the war.

This TV show set against the Liberation War in the 1940s, it tells a series of open and covert struggles between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang over the competition for the river defense fortresses in the Battle of Crossing the Yangtze River.

Zhu Yiran, who inherits the traditional craft of Suzhou fan-making from her grandfather, crosses paths with her childhood friend Shen Feng, now a cellular structure engineer recently returned from abroad. Together, they work to protect and preserve the blend of ancient traditions and modern innovations in Suzhou’s evolving story.