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[Episode 17]

Li Jun.

Do you think Si Si's boyfriend knows she's lying?

Whether he knows or not isn't important.

What matters is that he now understands Si Si's stance,

so he probably won't come looking for her.

That sounds so sad.

Really?

I actually feel relieved for them.

They've been entangled like this for almost a year.

Today, they finally cleared the air.

It's a kind of liberation for both of them.

I thought you two were close friends.

We are close friends.

This has nothing to do with being good friends or not.

Take what happened outside the dorm tonight for example.

Those couples looked so deeply in love.

But check back in a few months,

they will be hugging and kissing a different person.

No one remembers anyone for long.

We're about to graduate.

Everyone will go their separate ways for various reasons.

That's not necessarily true.

Some people do stay together for a long time.

Who?

Give me one example.

- Well, like my... - Don't mention your parents.

You know that's different.

Li Jun,

you're only three years older than me.

Why do you always act like an adult around me?

What do you mean by "act"? I am an adult!

You'll become an adult after 18.

Welcome to the adult world.

It's realistic and cruel here.

Can't adults have people they like?

Did you say anything?

I mean, adults can have people they like.

What about you? Do you have someone you like?

Of course I do.

See?

So what kind of person are they?

We've known each other since childhood.

He's different from everyone else I know.

He never understands what I say and does things far from my world.

But he's incredibly beautiful.

Time seems to stop when I see him,

and butterflies fill my stomach.

Me too.

I've also known the person I like since childhood.

And sometimes, I also feel those things you described.

But the person I like is 15 years older than me.

About eight years ago, he got married.

His wife is also stunningly beautiful.

They look perfect together.

Seeing how well-matched they are, I can't even be upset.

They even have two kids now.

Wait, hold on a second.

The person you like is married with children?

He got married eight years ago!

But you were only 13 back then!

The person I like is a celebrity!

Why?

I really like him!

What about you, Cherry?

I'm not telling you.

Liar! You're so mean.

Liar.

You... liar!

Jiang Qiao Xi, I just found out today

that the adult world after 18 isn't fun at all.

isn't fun at all.

Did you enter that adult world first

and that's why I can't find you?

♫ Memories drift in my pupils ♫

♫ Through the window of time ♫

♫ Summer cherries are a bit cool ♫

♫ I gaze from afar ♫

♫ The unspoken wishes of that year ♫

♫ Familiar shadows lengthen ♫

♫ Beyond sight ♫

♫ Your silhouette is so gentle ♫

♫ The world is spinning ♫

♫ The breeze is shouting ♫

♫ The scenery in amber ♫

♫ Clear as yesterday ♫

♫ Reality is in front of me ♫

♫ The future folds in the palm ♫

♫ You're the key to who I am ♫

♫ Accompany me to become myself ♫

♫ The night is long ♫

♫ My stubbornness grows wildly ♫

♫ I can't stop running ♫

♫ The silent call of the dream ♫

♫ You're the key to all I dream ♫

♫ Accompany you to become yourself ♫

♫ The night is long ♫

♫ My stubbornness grows wildly ♫

♫ I can't stop running ♫

♫ The silent call of the dream ♫

♫ You're the sparkling of my dreams ♫

♫ Accompany you to become yourself ♫

♫ Boundaries dissipate ♫

♫ Loneliness melts in an embrace ♫

♫ I've always been here ♫

You... you're so funny, acting like an elementary school student.

What?

Milk tea.

Why did you come to see me so suddenly today?

I just suddenly wanted to visit your campus.

Thought if I saw you, I'd give you the milk tea.

If not, I'd drink both cups myself.

Since when did you become so sentimental?

You could've just called. Why bring fate into this?

Your school's environment is really nice.

Lots of little animals around.

I saw stray cats right at the entrance,

swans in the artificial lake,

and a piglet reading in the library.

Lin Cherry, listen to me.

This 18th year of yours is your last chance to grow from 159cm to 160cm!

Stop doing diets like others and refusing milk tea.

First of all, I've been 160cm for ages!

Second, this milk tea won't help me grow taller.

I asked my dad to get Liang Hong Fei's number.

She is Jiang Qiao Xi's mother after all.

Surely she knows where her son is.

Don't thank me. Jiang Qiao Xi's my friend too.

He just left without a single word.

I need to track him down for answers, too.

In the past, when I wanted to find him,

I could check his home or the Olympiad Camp.

But now, when I want to find him,

even with a world map, I wouldn't know where to look.

It's okay. He won't run off to outer space.

I don't really feel like growing up anymore.

Being an adult is no fun.

Adulthood feels full of hardships.

Wasn't it tough when we were kids too?

It started getting hard when we realized crying didn't work.

No, this is different.

It's hard to decide how to live your life.

It's hard to learn to be an adult

when you are clearly a child.

Lin Qi Le, all your roommates are seniors.

Does anyone accompany you to classes?

I think... it's actually fine without company.

Totally fine.

It feels like nobody really knows each other well in college.

But don't worry about me. My senior sisters treat me well.

Lin Cherry, you've just started college and you're already acting so mature.

Cherry.

Senior sister.

Where did you go?

I just came back from the library. You?

I've been in the dorm the whole time.

Yu Qiao, my childhood friend.

A freshman at the neighboring Beihang University Flight Academy.

This is my senior sister, Meng Li Jun.

Hello, senior sister...

Hello.

Cherry, did you say he's your childhood friend?

So you two grew up together, right?

Isn't that what childhood friends mean?

Got it.

Not bad.

What's wrong with her?

What are you doing?

Get in here.

Stop watching.

It's okay. I'm up.

Chat away.

Up, huh?

What are you doing, senior sister?

Court is in session! Time for interrogation.

Sit.

Quickly.

Your Honor, what's our case today?

No escaping! Get back here.

What are you doing?

Our Miss Lin here has committed an unforgivable crime!

She's been hiding a little boyfriend at the neighboring school.

She kept it so well hidden and never told us anything. Isn't that right?

No! He's really not my boyfriend.

He's just my childhood friend. Seriously.

Still trying to hide it?

You admitted it during our shower last time.

The person you like grew up with you since childhood.

And he is good-looking.

Doesn't that perfectly match that Beihang guy?

It's really not him.

Your Honor, explanations are just excuses, which expose the truth!

It's really not him.

It's someone else.

Lin Qi Le, you're something.

You've even got a second mister hidden away?

You'll have plenty to do tonight then.

Hurry up and tell us every detail of your 18 years!

Come on.

Spill it.

Do I really have to say it?

My story with him is... quite long.

It'll take a while to explain.

The mood's already set.

There's no escaping now. Start talking!

His name is Jiang Qiao Xi.

I first met Jiang Qiao Xi when we were nine.

I'd never seen a kid like him before.

Sometimes, I thought he came from another world.

Before meeting him, I thought I had all the answers to life.

But after knowing him,

I discovered more and more things I didn't understand.

Ah, childhood sweethearts with innocent friendship,

with some teenage angst vibes too.

Your story doesn't involve best friend betrayals,

miscarriages or affairs, does it?

Please don't make this sound like some cheesy romance novel.

It's not that complicated.

But it's not simple either.

Adults called him a math genius

with odd quirks when we were kids.

All his belongings were black.

Jiang Qiao Xi, what's the meaning behind your name?

No special meaning.

He didn't know the meaning of his own name

or what color he liked.

Jiang Qiao Xi, make a wish.

Du Shang, I want to give this wish to you.

You can make the wish.

But I always saw warmth hidden in him.

I thought we'd keep growing up like that.

I even believed we'd never grow up.

But one day, his mother came.

Jiang Qiao Xi!

Jiang Qiao Xi! Write letters.

You must write to me!

Cherry, I'll come back after winter break!

Pure love. This is pure love!

What happened after his mother took him away?

We didn't see each other for six years.

When we met again, we were in high school.

I don't know her.

♫ Palms not yet warm ♫

♫ Breath left behind ♫

So from now on,

if we meet again, let's pretend that we don't know each other.

Let go. We'll act like we never knew each other.

♫ You are the reason I stop burning ♫

♫ Memory ♫

♫ Breaking into the unknown forbidden zone ♫

If you don't leave, I will.

Miss, I'm leaving.

Lin Qi Le, you're too bossy.

You're too shameless.

How am I shameless?

Chun Lu is mine too.

I had many good memories with it.

Do whatever you want, but don't push it.

How can you speak like that?

♫ Filled with you ♫

Cherry, I haven't changed.

Cherry.

♫ You tuck away your dreams ♫

♫ Hidden in the drizzle ♫

♫ Silently lands ♫

Jiang Qiao Xi, do you often feel lonely when you're alone?

My loneliness isn't from being alone.

Then what's the reason?

Because I met you.

I was alone before turning ten too.

But doing math problems kept the loneliness away.

After meeting you, math stopped working.

I can't conquer loneliness anymore.

Cherry, I... might miss your 18th birthday.

But I don't want to miss watching you become an adult.

I've always thought

that you'd look stunning in high heels and lipstick.

I want to be the first to see.

♫ You are the reason I can shine ♫

♫ Yearning ♫

♫ Push open the slumbering light ♫

♫ Turn to every page in the future ♫

Cherry.

Don't forget me.

His last words were,

"Cherry, don't forget me."

I didn't think much of it then.

It's only later, recalling those words, that I found it strange.

He had no idea

that forgetting him is so much harder than remembering him.

Do you still want to look for him?

I have to. He's part of my life now.

Finding him is like finding myself.

Don't you think that he did that,

precisely to never see you again or let you find him?

It's like hide-and-seek.

Hiding is easier than being found.

Maybe I'm just unlucky.

I'll always be the seeker.

How will you search?

To Hong Kong, China? Or America?

That's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Where would you get the money, even if you had the time?

I've started saving already.

Cherry, stop being naive.

What "Jiang Qiao Xi of thousands of households"?

You're the real precious one, Lin Qi Le!

If everyone had a silly Cherry like you, the whole world would be happy.

Have you ever thought about how miserable his life would have been without you?

But what if you didn't have him?

You'd definitely be happier and more relaxed than you are now.

Why do you do this to yourself?

That guy from Beihang University seems pretty nice, doesn't he?

He obviously likes you.

Senior, please stop saying that.

We're really just childhood friends. I've told you that.

And I like Jiang Qiao Xi.

I decided to like him and won't like anyone else again.

Fine, fine, keep searching if you want.

Might as well spend your whole life on it.

If you can't find him, you can end up like Jiang Wen Li's character in The Grand Mansion Gate

and marry his photograph instead.

Senior,

you remind me so much of a friend of mine.

Every time you speak, I feel like I'm hearing her.

Jiang Qiao Xi, I told our story to the seniors.

It's like bringing you into my new life.

From now on, this room won't be a place without you anymore.

Cherry, with your feelings for him,

you'd be better off liking some celebrity like I do.

Did you hear me?

Jiang Qiao Xi, where on earth are you?

Fang Chang said she'd secured seats at the restaurant.

That was fast.

She says she's starving and wants us to hurry over.

Tell her to order and eat first then.

There's no need for formality with just us eating together.

Nonsense, this farewell dinner is specially for your exam preparation back home.

We should make it properly formal.

- Okay. - Let's hurry! Come on!

Cherry! Cherry! Hurry up!

Lin Qi Le.

Hello, Lin Qi Le.

Hi.

I... I often see you in the library.

I was wondering what books you read.

Essential Vocabulary for CET-4.

Or maybe Harry Potter.

I like Harry Potter, too.

Let's be friends.

Your shoelace is untied.

Thank you, but I'm sorry.

What's wrong with you?

Let me teach you a new language.

How about sign language?

Wh-why learn sign language?

You didn't get it?

Won't it be much simpler when you encounter this situation in the future?

Just pretend you can't speak and gesture at them.

Anyway, so many people want to get to know you,

yet you don't want to know any of them.

Senior sister, something came up.

You can go ahead first.

Start without me.

I'll be right back.

Go ahead, don't wait for me.

Hello?

Ms. Liang, this is Lin Cherry.

I'm sorry to bother you, but I wanted to ask...

He's not the Jiang Qiao Xi from before anymore.

Stop looking for him.

Can you tell me where he is?

He won't answer my calls anymore.

He's determined to do this. No one can change his mind.

If I don't tell you his whereabouts, we might still have a chance to remain as mother and son.

If I tell you, we won't even get to keep that relationship.

Cherry, enjoy your college life.

Don't think about finding him. And don't call me again.

[Nan Village BBQ] Si Si, here's to you.

If you wish to see the vastness of Earth's three thousand realms,

you must climb eight hundred winding mountain paths.

May our reunion after the drifting clouds and the flowing waters bring fulfillment.

Isn't this poem a bit inappropriate for the occasion?

What's wrong with it?

Life is like drifting clouds and flowing water, right?

Full of uncertainties.

Isn't that fitting and beautiful?

No, no.

Let me lie down and think for a moment.

I'll tell you in a second.

- How did both of them collapse? - It's normal.

- Are they okay? - They're fine.

Cherry, sorry about this.

You're a freshman this year,

when everything feels new and full of promise.

But now, you're having this farewell dinner with us.

What are you talking about, senior sister?

Let me toast you too.

I can't recite those classical poems,

so I'll just wish you success in passing the civil service exam.

Thanks.

What are you doing?

Hey, Chuan.

Starting today, I won't be teaching you anymore.

This phone number belongs to your new tutor.

Be nice to her. Don't make her angry.

Don't worry. I'll talk to your parents. Bye.

What's going on?

This is the number from the family I tutor.

He's in third grade this year.

He's well-behaved and smart.

Eighty yuan per hour.

You could earn decent money monthly if you teach properly.

Why are you passing this job to me?

Aren't you going to look for your boyfriend?

Just saving money won't be enough.

You need to increase income while cutting down on expenses.

Wouldn't this be better?

I...

I thought you also think that I'm being foolish.

What defines foolishness or wisdom?

Cherry, not everyone's like you,

unbreakable and unchanging,

nor love others more than themselves.

If that's called foolishness, then I'm quite smart.

But where did that get me?

Senior, I'm not as wonderful as you say.

Honestly, I don't know what to do

or what I can do now.

Honestly, I'm really scared.

There's so much I can't figure out.

I don't know why...

I don't know why Jiang Qiao Xi said goodbye like that.

He didn't have to study math anymore.

Why did he just vanish suddenly?

Why couldn't he stay in contact?

What truly scares me is that he asked me not to forget him.

And I've always remembered him. But what if he forgets me?

Even after ten or twenty years, I'll still remember him.

But where will he be then?

Will he still remember me?

Have you heard a story called The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane'?

It's a fairy tale.

About a porcelain rabbit named Edward.

He leaves his owner under various circumstances.

Then he begins wandering.

He grows lonely. His situation worsens.

No one remembers his real name.

In those loveless, forgotten days, he repeatedly tells himself:

"There's someone I love deeply."

"Someone once loved me dearly."

"Someone will always remember my name."

That's how he survives those days.

Does this story have a happy ending?

Cherry, only in a loveless story would there be a bad ending.

Finally, someone remembered his name.

Then he returned to his owner's side.

Cherry, I think your rabbit

relies on the fact that you still remember his name

to endure those hardships.

So,

maybe this is why Jiang Qiao Xi told me not to forget him.

Cherry, you're someone who can make others happy.

Such people won't have bad endings.

Right. You will be happy.

Let's drink.

There'll definitely be no bad ending.

No way. Don't worry.

Fang Chang, get up now.

- Let's drink. - Let's drink.

May your journey be smooth, and mine too.

Everything smooth.

[The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane]

♫ Love is in your eyes ♫

♫ You will see flowers blooming ♫

♫ Every minute and every second ♫

♫ I will be with you ♫

♫ Flying over that sea ♫

♫ No regrets can hinder ♫

♫ With all my heart and determination ♫ ♫ I cheer for you ♫

♫ Maybe the world's a bit harsh ♫

♫ Always extinguishing hope ♫

♫ But dear friend ♫

♫ You are all I need ♫

♫ You are my matchstick ♫

♫ You're always humming a song softly ♫

♫ Facing the sunset ♫

♫ Waving hard ♫

♫ Don't forget about tomorrow ♫

♫ Love is in your eyes ♫

♫ You will see flowers blooming ♫

♫ Every minute and every second ♫

♫ I will be with you ♫

♫ Flying over that sea ♫

I'm off.

♫ No regrets can hinder ♫

♫ This is the most devoted and steadfast me ♫

♫ Cheering for you ♫

Let's look at this next line.

Chuan, come back.

Ms. Cherry, the cello is too loud.

I can't focus on studying.

How about I talk to your parents

and let your brother practice later?

Ms. Cherry, don't bother.

They won't listen.

My brother's going to a cello competition in a few days.

He practices there every day.

Mom and dad like him practicing. They don't pay attention to me.

Who said that?

Every time, your parents ask me

how you did on your studies.

Your parents care about you very much.

Chuan, you know what?

I have a friend,

who, like you, has a sibling.

Children inevitably get compared to each other.

When we were young,

my friend also had a hard time because of this.

So what color do you like?

I've never thought about it.

But I started to like black.

What else? Pick another one.

You'll like that color from now on.

Red. I like red.

Jiang Qiao Xi, next time on my birthday, I'll make a wish for you.

I'll wish that your parents love you just as you are. Okay?

What about your wish?

What's your wish?

My wish.

I wish all of us could stay together forever, never drifting apart.

Then keep your wish.

This matters more to me.

Did he ever outshine his brother later?

As he grew up, he realized comparison wasn't important.

What matters is figuring out who you truly are

and discovering what you genuinely love.

I like taking lessons with Ms. Cherry.

I enjoy teaching you too.

What an impressive kid!

You're only in fourth grade, but you already write such excellent essays!

You might become an extraordinary writer someday.

Little author, time to tackle the problems here.

Come on, right here.

This sentence.

Ms. Cherry, the cello doesn't feel noisy anymore.

[Harry Potter] Jiang Qiao Xi, do you know something?

The more I look at my tutee Chuan,

the more he reminds me of you.

[22nd Member Certificate Jiang Qiao Xi]

Did you need me when you were young too?

I'll take a break. It's the weekend tomorrow. Will you go to the teachers' college again?

Take this hair gel.

Why give it to me? Don't you need it?

I've got no use for it.

With our school's lopsided gender ratio, who's there to impress?

So why would I need it?

Your childhood friend is at the teachers' college, right?

You eat with her every weekend.

With your physique and your dedication,

it's only a matter of time.

Don't put it that way.

I'm not seeing Cherry for that.

Alright, my bad. I misspoke.

Hello?

Yu Qiao, get on QQ now! Big trouble!

Why the panic? Did the sky fall?

It's worse than the sky falling!

I saw this on my Microsoft network space.

Posted by a Chinese Hong Kong middle school girl.

Is that Jiang Qiao Xi? Am I seeing it right?

This really looks like Jiang Qiao Xi.

Should we tell Cherry?

Would that be good news for her?

[Qin Ye Yun] Nobody says a word.

If anyone tells Cherry, I'll tear their mouth to shreds!

Got it?

[Qin Ye Yun] Yu Qiao, especially you!

Yu Qiao, have you read everything?

[Yu Qiao, have you read everything?]

The post's been deleted now.

Only a few of us saw it.

As long as I don't tell her, Cherry won't know.

Why shouldn't Cherry know?

Shouldn't Cherry be allowed to know that?

Yu Qiao, enough with the pretentious act.

Yu Qiao, enough with the pretentious act.

Others might not know, but you definitely do.

If Cherry knew Jiang Qiao Xi was there,

she'd buy today's flight ticket without waiting till tomorrow.

It is so far away. Would you let her go alone?

It's not that far really, just over a thousand nautical miles.

Unless there's extreme bad weather,

Flight 737800...

Yu Qiao, you're getting addicted to playing the hero, huh?

Why don't you fly your plane to Leshan, Sichuan, right now?

Land at the Leshan Giant Buddha site.

Make that Buddha stand up and take its seat yourself!

♫ Memories drift in my pupils ♫

♫ Through the window of time ♫

♫ Summer cherries are a bit cool ♫

♫ I gaze from afar ♫

♫ The unspoken wishes of that year ♫

♫ Familiar shadows lengthen ♫

♫ Beyond sight ♫

♫ Your silhouette is so gentle ♫

♫ The world is spinning ♫

♫ The breeze is shouting ♫

♫ The scenery in amber ♫

♫ Clear as yesterday ♫

♫ Reality is in front of me ♫

♫ The future folds in the palm ♫

♫ You're the key to who I am ♫

♫ Accompany me to become myself ♫

♫ The night is long ♫

♫ My stubbornness grows wildly ♫

♫ I can't stop running ♫

♫ The silent call of the dream ♫

♫ You're the sparkling of my dreams ♫

♫ Accompany you to become yourself ♫

♫ Boundaries dissipate ♫

♫ Loneliness melts in an embrace ♫

♫ I've always been here ♫

♫ Rotating light in my palm ♫

♫ Illuminating your cheeks ♫

♫ A smile that ran too fast ♫

♫ Unexpectedly preserved ♫