一件带有“sos”线索的空包裹成为校花女神初音音失踪求救的信号，被偷袭的初音音失去记忆，流落到郊区一所职业院校。另一边，被追债的夏儿决定外出寻找挣钱机会，却被错认为是初音音进入名校青藤学院开始精英式学习和生活，相似的外貌、身边人的怪异举止，让夏儿心生怀疑，真正的初音音到底去了哪里？决定留下寻找真相的夏儿在学校里结识了外冷内热的学霸型男许空凛（曾舜晞饰）和欢脱暖心的阳光少年李白（王博文饰），越来越多的线索浮出水面，一场关于青春、爱情、梦想、冒险的校园故事即将展开。When We Were Young revolves around twins. One is raised by an adopted mother and the other is raised in an orphanage. One twist of fate and a lot of bullying leads the orphanage sister to commit suicide but she's saved by her twin and they switched identity to solve some mysteries within the school.