Those of old are long gone

He and his girlfriend had been together for eight years. To give her a better life, he worked himself ragged to open a café for her — and then entered a dessert competition and took first place, driving a flood of sales through her shop. He believed that once she had reaped all that wealth, the two of them would love each other forever. But everything changed the moment her childhood friend came home from studying abroad. At the café, the man deliberately dumped flour all over him and framed him, sparking a rift between him and his girlfriend. She locked him in the cold storage room — and no matter how he explained, she chose to believe the other man's words and refused to let him out. Just as he was about to freeze to death, a woman named Jiang Xue saved him. His heart went cold, and he made up his mind to go abroad and finish the studies he had once abandoned. When his girlfriend heard, she chased after him in a panic; after a wrenching struggle, he refused to hear her explanation and walked away for good, returning overseas to study. Years later he graduated with honors — and ran into her and her circle at a press conference. He slapped down her childhood friend in front of everyone, and when she seized hold of him demanding an explanation, he told her flatly that there could never be anything between them, and turned her down. Back home, he went to find Jiang Xue, wanting to marry her. It turned out she had been confessing her love to him for years — and he had come back for her. She handed him an invitation to the World Dessert Championship, hoping he would reclaim the glory that was his. He brought her to meet his mother, and while the two of them waited at a restaurant, they ran straight into his ex and her childhood friend. After a scuffle, his mother arrived, drove the pair off, and gave her blessing to Jiang Xue. At the championship, the childhood friend fought his way through the field to face him — and then resorted to framing him. When the two went to the cold storage to fetch supplies, the man, seeing he was losing, tried to threaten him, only to be stopped by the two women who rushed in. In the end, his ex took a blow meant for him. Years later, still searching for him, she wandered into a café. Just as she was about to confess her feelings, she learned that he and Jiang Xue were already married — and had a child. Heartsick, she turned and walked away, leaving the happy family behind.