本书主人公梅是一位出生贫寒、母亲早逝、遭父亲遗弃、带着妹妹闯荡生活的女子，靠着自身的顽强奋斗与周围好心人的帮助，完成了从初中到大学专科，再到本科、硕士、博士的艰难学业，同时经历了曲折多舛的情感与生活；张岚属于典型的理工科女博士，聪明、吃苦耐劳、坚韧不拔，与丈夫一起，带着孩子辛苦读博；娴雅则是一位优雅的文科女博士，琴棋书画皆通，浪漫挥洒交友，但最终仍逃不脱女博士难觅如意郎君、难有幸福家庭的宿命。 This book features the stories of its heroines: Mei, a girl with humble background who suffered the premature death of her mother and the abandonment by his father and struggled to live and raise her younger sister, managed to finish secondary school, junior college, and on to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies through her own resiliency and efforts with the help from kind people around, and then experienced a lot of twists, turns and setbacks in relationships and life along the way; Zhang Lan, a typical female doctor in sciences, smart, hard-working and tenacious, completed her doctoral studies while bringing up her child together with her husband; and Xianya, an elegant female doctor in humanities, was trained in four arts, romantic and social, but finally could not escape the typical fate of female doctors: difficult to find her Mr. Right and has a happy family.