In early-1900s Milwaukee, bank clerk August Schiller is happy with his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blonde seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakens alone in a dilapidated bedroom without the securities. He finds the woman and pleads with her to return the stolen securities. When he also threatens her, he is knocked unconscious by the saloon owner and dragged to a nearby railroad track. As the crooks strips him of his ID and papers, Schiller recovers and struggles with the saloon owner, ultimately throwing him into the path of an oncoming train, killing him. Schiller flees and, as he is about to take his own life, sees in a newspaper that he is supposedly dead. The saloon owner's mangled body had been identified as Schiller's. Twenty years pass. Schiller is now aged, unkempt, and employed to pick up trash in a park. He sees his own family go to a cemetery and place a wreath on his grave. Following other scenes in a Christmas snowstorm, Schiller makes his way to his former home, where he sees that the son whom he had taught to play violin is now a successful musician. He walks away, carrying in his pocket a dollar that his son gave him, not realizing that the old tramp was his father.

陆阳在修仙界苦苦蛰伏十九年，身为金虹剑宗的外门末流弟子，即将被贬为杂役之际，迟来的都市神豪系统终于觉醒。凭借系统的任务加点、消费返利与投资回报能力，他从囤积丹药开始，不断淬炼灵根，提升悟性与自身实力，开启逆袭之路。修行途中，他结识温婉丹修林樱、飒爽世家女子秦南月，深陷同门纷争与世家博弈，智斗仇敌李耀，积攒飞舟、护道人等诸多底牌，塑造出底蕴莫测的强者形象。最终他驾驭流光飞舟，踏上从底层外门弟子登临仙道顶峰的传奇征途。

在济南打工的小五经表哥介绍在一家酒店做后厨学徒，他想尽快赚到彩礼钱，娶到媳妇儿，了却爷爷的心愿。在同事大岭的指导下，他学会了吉他，开始痴迷音乐，并到街头卖唱，也因此认识了丁慧。

大靖女帝沐羽烟为挽救衰败国运，遵从老监正 “帝王入红尘” 的预言，下嫁看似平凡的茶楼店主顾澜。她误以为对方只是文弱普通书生，暗中出手铺路助他科举中举，得以名正言顺伴在朝堂。二人双双隐瞒真实身份，女帝藏起帝王权柄，顾澜也不露真正实力。一场趣味反差喜剧就此上演，彼此都把对方当成实力普通的普通人，在互相试探与掩护之中，情愫悄然滋生。

Meek head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with a Parisian girl, Michelle. After a confrontation between the two men, De Koster ends up dead and Popinga makes off to Paris with the remaining money. There he contacts Michelle, with the police in close pursuit.

女主角丽塔是一个对日常生活感到厌烦的美发师，她决定要增加自己在文学上的知识。在命运的安排下，她成了弗兰克教授的学生。他是一个从幻想中清醒过来的酒鬼，与丽塔彼此从对方身上学到了生活的真谛。

时代浪潮褪去，这群凡夫俗女在满地鸡毛的生活废墟上，笨拙地拼凑家的原貌。

苏氏御膳传人苏晴遭遇家族变故与同行打压，仍坚守初心，靠精湛厨艺从夜市小摊起步，并真诚善待“落魄”外卖员陆霆晓。面对窃取家族食谱的宿敌赵鼎，苏晴不畏资本强权，在美食大赏上凭借扎实的基本功，以一道去伪存真的“开水白菜”堂堂正正夺得冠军，重振苏家名号。而一路默默守护她的陆霆晓，真实身份竟是全球首富，他暗中击碎所有不公黑幕，为妻子的梦想保驾护航。

陆沉渊为报恩入赘江家，隐忍三年受尽羞辱。离婚净身出户，却无人知晓他竟是资本巨鳄砚川创始人。当晚，商界女强人苏晚以契约婚姻相约，联手对抗共同死敌陈景川。从竞拍狙击到峰会亮剑，他步步为营清算旧账。前妻幡然悔悟却为时已晚，而这场利益联姻在并肩作战中生出真心。复仇落幕，契约作废，他们选择执手一生，共赴圆满。