Though a champion sprinter at first, Chaoyue suffers a series of challenges; he ultimately retires to start a business selling shoes but loses his money in a scam.

[1] In order to play the character of Hao Chaoyue at two different times of life, Zheng first lost weight and then gained about 20 kilograms.

[6][8] He worked hard to gain weight: according to costar Li Chen, "there was one day it was like he ate ten meals in a row...he just about fainted right there".

[3] Critic Lim Yian Lu wrote that the film's tone was inconsistent, sometimes comedic and sometimes serious, with the result that it was "neither very entertaining nor very encouraging", but still worth watching.

[2] Critic Derek Elley said that although the film's timeline was confusing and its writing was flawed, it remained "an involving portrait of what happens to athletes when they retire from competition but still have some of the flame that fired them in the first place".