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My name is Chen Xiao Xi

The most important thing in my life is drawing

and...

uh, just drawing

But when I was sixteen,

the most important thing was...him

[In 2005]

His name is Jiang Chen

We live in the same apartment complex and we go to school together every day [IQ of 200, genius, arrogant but good-looking guy...]

Jiang Chen, let's go to school together

No thanks

He often asks to study together

so we can help each other and improve our studies together

He treats me

very warmly and never gets mad at me

Chen Xiao Xi!

It's just that he walks too fast!

I can never keep up with him

Even though it seems like my youth was spent pursuing him,

but it's okay.

I'm sure he is secretly waiting for me

Episode 1: Dear Jiang Chen

Let your dreams rise in the rays of the beautiful morning

Welcome to the new school year at

Chen Xi Middle School

Today, you are proud of going to (a school like) Chen Xi

Tomorrow, Chen Xi is proud of having (students like) you

Jiang Chen!

We're in the same class again this year

Match made in heaven

Don't you think it's such a coincidence?

Seems like the test scores for getting into Chen Xi lowered again this year

It lowered by 5 points from last year

Good thing it went down five points

Otherwise I also wouldn't make it into Chen Xi

Luck must be on my side

Jiang Chen!

I like you

I don't like you

Then....

let me think of a way

think of a way...

[how to make a guy like you]

1. Be pretty: small face...

2. has quality/class:has good grades in school...

Let's take a look at this little face

It wasn't even the least bit good of a read

you little girl

you're just not at the same level as me

Chen Xiao Xi

Let me a recommend a new book to you

It's a famous book

Not interested

Hand in your homework

You're so desperate, Chen Xiao Xi

you're even taking mine

You're always copying copying copying

How did you even get into Chen Xi Middle School?

The homework today was pretty easy, right?

I finished it so fast

So embarrassing

Have you been eating that one bun for the whole class?

What are you talking about? This is my fifth one

The listening portion on the midterm was just too easy this time

Oh...really?

it's Jiang Chen! So good looking!

The test was pretty easy

The essay part was a little hard, the prompt was a bit biased

about...what was it...pursuing your dreams

Jiang Chen, what did you think?

I didn't write that much

About 1000 characters worth

If I'm not careful, sometimes I write too much

Pursuing your dreams was the model essay

The test prompt was about Justice

You didn't know...?

Look at your grades for English

You even went off topic on the essay

Let's take a look at your class rank again

Oh yes. You fell back 75 spots.

At the rate you're going,

you just need to take two more tests

and you can have the lowest rank in the school

Take a look at Jiang Chen

Since he's started middle school

how is that each time, he's consistently scored number one

and each time, your grades get progressively worse!

Teacher, I get it!

I'll definitely look towards Jiang Chen as a goal

Good bye, Teacher

I think our grades are about the same

let's form a group

called dragon brother tiger sister, what do you think?

Jiang Chen

May I take a couple minutes of your time?

Her name is Li Wei

Uh is something the matter?

I didn't really understand the grammar we went over in class today

Would you be able to help explain it to me?

Tiger sister,

At least look like it

Okay, what part did you have problems with?

Do you think her face is smaller or mine?

Her?

Her

My face is too big

I can't be in your group

it's okay, it's okay

Tigers have big faces

How can you use grades to judge someone?

3. Gentle and thoughtful

"starting with breakfast, make him food filled with love to show how feminine and gentle you are..."

Morning

Morning

A bun for you

Stop giving me buns

The 2nd day, 7AM

Fried dough

Classmate Jiang,

The book I recommended to you yesterday

I read a different version of it

It wasn't bad

but it was lacking a bit of a critical perspective of society

Wow, you are so cultured!

it's nothing

Classmate Chen,

You are the most cultured person I know!

Jiang Chen wouldn't have left already, would he...?

It's 8 already

This is already your fifth time this month

Upper Eighth Class, Chen Xiao Xi

It's only the seventh of this month today...

the third day, 6AM

A love filled breakfast doesn't work

4. Show your sincerity

Stand

Good morning, Teacher

Good morning, class

Open the book to where we last left off

"beautiful se (instrument) playing fifty strokes in a row"

"each stroke, with a thought of youth"

This poem is extremely poignant and beautiful

It was written by Li Shang Yin to Wang Qi, as a love letter

each dream is like a lost butterfly

[Chinese poetry...]

"Love Letter"

What are you looking for?

Do you have that...

Love letter collective

What collective...?

Collection of essays

Love is a temple...

What the heck is this?

Why are you coming up from behind me?

Chen Xiao Xi

you're looking at these as a sample for your love letter?

What do you know?

You don't know the good from the bad

I'm telling you

the person sitting in front of you

Is Chen Xi middle school's famous,

Love Guru

Let me tell you

I've received more than fifty love letters

why do you think they keep writing love letters to me?

why?

Because I'm talented, delightful, and funny

and I understand women's hearts

I believe you

I'd rather trust this book

bowing before your legs

and laying a long kiss on your legs

Or how about...you share about your experience with love letters with me?

Lu Yang

I'm eating

Eat, eat more

Lu Yang

Chen Xiao Xi

My dad told me

I can't date until I'm ranked in the top ten

I still have to write a draft

Okay

You help me, and I'll teach you to write the letter

Trade my chicken wing

You received all these letters?

These are all letters I wrote

Aren't you the Love Guru?

Why are you writing love letters?

How can I always only receive?

do onto others as you would have them do onto yourself

I just want to give two

to give back to them

how are you able to keep up with it

you help me deliver them and I'll teach you to write one

so much nonsense

okay okay, I'll deliver it

I'll do whatever you say

okay, so let's start with the first sentence

that starting sentence needs to

captivate the reader to keep reading the letter

Respected love,

You're hopeless

you need to have a strong start, get it?

Hot/passionate

I'll speak, you write

I love you

That's too strong

Let me finish

I love your eyes

I love your eyebrows

I love how you are sometimes projected on my heart

Oh yes

Reverse

In life,

a person has many memories

as long as you are willing to recollections of me,

my love will be like the tide

love like the tide

pulling me towards you

Where do you live?

By Chen Xiao Xi's home

are you going home?

Li Wei, is it on the way for you to come with us?

I...

I'll leave first

See you tomorrow

I wrote a poem today

I'm not sure if it's good or not

Do you want to hear it?

My love is like the tide

Love like the tide, pulling me towards you

What do you think?

it rhymes, doesn't it?

if you have time to memorize song lyrics, wouldn't your time be better spent on homework?

Lyrics?

Ever since I've had you,

The world has become beautiful

let us wander and drift together

for all the years

Ah! They are song lyrics!

Hello?

Xiao Xi, it's an emergency, get on QQ (messaging system)

I invited you into the group

We'll talk there

Tomorrow there is a Chun Chun campaigning event

at the Jie Xin garden

We have to be ready

Tomorrow is my grandma's birthday, I can't go

I'll ask my friend to go in my place

Will you come tomorrow?

Actually, I'm busy with something

Why are you all flaking on me?

I can help you fix whatever "something" is

I have to write a love letter

I'm helping a friend

That's too easy

I'll help you

Stand right there

I'm not the kind of person to spout nonsense

But today, I'm going to tell you

I've taken a liking to you

If you don't give me an answer/say yes,

I have a-

I have a hundred ways to make it

hard for you to stay at this school

whoever dares to steal you from me,

I'll ax them to death!

Who are you?

Why are you eavesdropping on me?

I wasn't eavesdropping on you

The school is so small,

and you are so loud

Classmate,

The school is so chaotic

you're the boss

of a triad, right?

yes

So,

provoke me if you dare

Is Fei Mao reliable?

It's probably better for me to write it myself

broken

broken

Okay, they're all right

Come, Lin Jing Shao

Pick a classmate

Chen Xiao Xi

Okay

Chen Xiao Xi

Chen Xiao Xi!

Hurry up

Pick up the pace!

Respect

Organize

Balance

Balance

b-a-l-a-n-c-e

I know this one

You're the new student Wu Bo Song, right?

Yes

That is me, your majesty

Didn't I say to report at 8?

What time is it now? It's already 9!

Don't think that just because you're a specialty student, you can be late

Come,

Come up here

Listening Comprehension

I'm depending on you, boss

Modest

Modest

Don't look at me, boss

I don't know it

Why are you just standing there? Hurry up and write

I tell you daily to memorize your vocabulary

is it that hard?

you

you're even copying her

her English is probably worse than yours

You haven't taught me yet, isn't that right?

No laughing

Go sit down

How could you only know one vocabulary word?

Introduce yourself to your classmates

Hello everyone

I am the new student, Wu Bo Song

My focus is swimming

In the future, let's get along well

Go back, you sit down

Teacher, where should I sit?

There

Boss!

Why are you calling her boss?

Just by a bit of luck that brought us together

isn't that right, boss?

Classmate,

Is your class's Jiang Chen here?

He's not here

Where did he go?

That...

That what?

I heard he transferred schools

Transferred to where?

I don't know

Transferred schools?

It's free time now for everyone

I'll do the deed first

[Dear Jiang Chen]

I will go over an important part now

a carbon atom with an oxygen molecule

Water is the dispersing agent

Do a rough sketch of this

Draw it

usually before the molecule splits, the condition is the same

before this happens, like we've gone over previously,

Does everyone remember?

What is this?

Alright, class is dismissed

Good bye, teacher

Jiang Chen

That was-

Chen Xiao Xi

Have you finished your mission yet? Let's go

-something I wrote with my heart

I can't believe you fooled with me those lyrics

What I wrote was so much better than what you wrote

Who wrote it well? Just deliver and you'll know

Classmate

Can you help me get Qin Chong from your class?

He wrote a love letter

for you

Don't take someone else's love letter!

the love letter was delivered all the way to our class

Give it back to me!

Give it to me

The kid from Upper FIrst class has some nerve

In what love is our direction floating in?

I told you to be quiet!

Somewhere far...or in your heart

Be quiet!

Am I in your heart?

Chen Xiao Xi, let's go

The me that is secretly loving you

Even though, I cannot drink (alcohol)

But I think I would be drunk from your embrace

Be quiet!

Chen Xiao Xi, forget it. Let's go.

Where are you rushing off to?

Let me help you give it a try

you had the nerve to deliver such a letter

I could write a better one with my eyes closed!

Chen Xiao Xi and Lu Yang are in trouble

They're in a commotion with Upper Third class

Was it you that wrote this?

Say something!

You had the nerve to deliver it, but not the nerve to admit you wrote it?

He's terrified!

What's going on here?

They're reading the love letter that Lu Yang wrote!

Reading a love letter?

Yeah, I read it

You know all the words, right? Read it

Read it for me to hear

Read it!

No

You think I'm going to read it just because you tell me to?

Tomboy!

Brother, see how dirty your mouth is

I'll help you wipe it clean

Who the heck are you?

A good looking guy

Weirdo

If you like love letters so much, just write your own

There's no need to steal them

Did you get it back?

I'm the big guy

You stole his love letter

is the equivalent of stealing the toilet paper I use to wipe after pooping

You think I can let this go?

Your mouth is so dirty

It can be even dirtier, do you want to see?

you came, Zhang Shi Liang

Loyal

You think you're all grown up now, don't you?

You've learned how to cause trouble in school, huh?

the school will not tolerate this behavior

I didn't even get to hit anyone

Lu Yang, shut your mouth

you think since you're in Upper First class now,

and you're far away from the Gao Kao (college entrance exam)

let's go take a visit over to Upper Third Class

We're so close (to Gao Kao) that even if you wanted to cry, you wouldn't make it

Come

The people who got involved

the ones who were making the mess

get out

and reflect on what you did

Teacher, no matter-

Has nothing to do with who?

I can see it has everything to do with you!

Writing love letters and getting into fights

Upper Third class dared to dish it out

How did they dish it?

They even wanted to have a "big sister little brother" romance (older girl, younger boy)

Teacher Liu,

Let me tell you

Your class of brats

has been causing trouble not just once or twice

If you don't punish them severely this time,

next time, they'll be going to juvenile detention

I'm not just telling you

Where are the remaining love letters?

Give them to me

Teacher, they're not with me

Oh Chen Xiao Xi

I truly never thought

that you would be his partner in crime

He's trying to date young

what does that have to do with you?

It's not like he can give you a portion of it, like money, can he?

no

he can't

give them to me

Our love

in what direction is our love drifting towards?

somewheere far or somewhere in your heart?

Am I in your heart?

the me that is secretly loving you

even though I cannot drink (alcohol)

I would be drunk from your embrace, drunk in the autumn breeze

Why are all the love letters identical?

You might as well just hand them out as flyers

I'm done for

He's going to read the one I wrote

Teacher,

Even though it's a love letter, it's still private

it's not really appropriate to read them out loud

If they dared to write a love letter,

there's no need to talk about privacy

Don't you know the school policy from the school handbook?

Teacher,

Neither does the school handbook and policy say anything about violating privacy

Teacher Zhang,

Don't read any more

Teacher, we know are wrong, we'll be better

Okay. You few,

write me a self criticism essay

You few, give me one thousand characters

You're not allowed to leave until you finish!

Hey boss

I've only written reports on competitions before

I've never written anything like this before

Can you help me write it?

It seems like you're good at writing

Okay, hold on

When I finish, I'll help you

Hero

You can copy mine

Copy? Thank you

Is it because of me that you stood up today?

No

Oh

Fine

I can teach you how to write self criticism

No need

Oh, you can't say it like that

you have to be more submissive and humble

In regards to the teacher's actions,

they were not in line with the proper teaching practices

You can't say that

It's better if I help you. I can teach you

Earlier, you were so cool

You were getting bullied so bad and yet you didn't even raise your hand

I'm telling you, next time, go straight for it

and smack that group of babies

I really thought that Class 8 is easy to push around

I think the main reason was that his love letter was too poorly written

I was just practicing, that's all

Lu Yang

I thought you said you were the love expert

Fine fine fine

This time, thanks to all of your help

and for not saying anything

When we get out of school, let's go to the internet cafe

wanna go?

I'm not going

I am also busy so I can't go

My boss isn't going, what would I go for?

As soon as I see him, I get him

You're good, Jiang Chen!

You're the second best

Having gone through this fierce battle,

you could say that we've shared a tough time together

Let's make a group

Dragon and Tiger Brothers

You were eavesdropping on my conversation with Xiao Xi!

You were paying attention to me all along!

Let's make a new group

The Strong Kings or G4?

We can call ourselves

T3

Sounds too stupid

No wonder why your love letter was written so poorly

It's better than your gaming skills

Lu Yang, do you take yourself for an airport terminal?

Jiang Chen

You remember my name!

Remembering names isn't really difficult for me

Let's play one more game

Ximen Quan Xiu

Here

Have the woman in the sky arrived?

Here

Is JClove here?

Is JClove here?

Here, here!

Here

Has Fei Mao Under Three Thousand Inches arrived?

Here

Where is your banner?

Oh yes

How did she fit it in her bag?

I worked on it for a long time

How could you make Chun Chun's head like that?

She didn't even properly care for Chun Chun's banner

How could she call herself a corn (fan-girl name)

Yeah!

I'm sorry. It wasn't on purpose

Okay, settle down. Let's think of a way

We don't have the banner

I have an idea

Can you let me try?

What is she doing?

What is she doing?

Help me find a picture of Chun Chun

a nice picture

Help me hold this

Okay that's good

Wow you're so amazing!

Cast your vote for Chun Chun!

Thank you so much for today

if it wasn't for you,

I'd go from a corn to a pit by those other girls (play on words because the fan girl name is corn)

Right

The love letter from earlier...who did you write it for?

How did you know I wrote it?

it's always like that

I was just helping a friend

For Jiang Chen, right?

my friend said

yes

your friend has weird taste

to like such a cold person

and not fear freezing to death

you don't get it

I don't

you get it

I still have to get breakfast for Jiang Chen

feelings are based on destiny, they can't be forced

Let's go

What are you laughing at?

I just feel really happy going to school with you

even though you didn't get that letter,

but I don't know why I feel like you knew anyway

Jiang Chen

Eat some buns