Beijing Love Story

Five couples, their relationships can form one complete life story:

Impoverished Chen loves Shen. He proposes marriage. Shen's wealthy former lover woos her anew. In the end, love wins out as Chen and Shen marry;

Wu and Zhang seem to live a placid life but Zhang has been tolerating her cheating husband for years. When she finds photographic evidence of his affair, she learns to face her shattered marriage with courage;

Middle-aged merchant Liu and his wife try to salvage their passionless marriage with a "tryst". It almost fails but a phone call from their daughter reminds them of their love;

Teenager Liu is upset because her parents refuse to pay the entrance fee for a cello competition. Song, who has a crush on her, works to earn the entrance fee. When he is ready to surprise her, he discovers her parents had already paid, provided that she study abroad immediately afterwards;

Elderly woman Gao arranges a date for elderly man Wang. She hooks him up with Xie. Romance seems inevitable until Xie realises Gao and Wang are married! Xie leaves without knowing the deception is a painful act of love.