My name is Chen Xiaoxi.
The most important thing in my life is drawing.
Drawing.
And...
maybe just drawing.
But when I was 16...
the most important thing for me was him.
JC, STOP DREAMING. I WON'T MARRY YOU.
2005
His name is Jiang Chen.
We live in the same building, so we go to school together every day.
Jiang Chen, let's go to school together.
No.
He often invites me to study with him.
We help each other, and make progress together.
He's very nice to me and has never been angry.
Chen Xiaoxi!
The only problem is, he walks so fast that I can't follow him.
It seems like I was always running after him when I was young.
But it doesn't matter,
because I believe he's also secretly waiting for me.
EPISODE 1 DEAR JIANG CHEN
Beautiful Chenxi School, let dreams fly.
Welcome to Chenxi School, a nationally prestigious school.
Today, you are proud of Chenxi School,
tomorrow, Chenxi School will be proud of you.
Jiang Chen,
we are in the same class again this year.
This is called destiny, don't you think?
So the entry score of this school is quite low this year.
Five points lower than last year.
Thanks to those five points,
or I wouldn't have been able to get in.
I'm so lucky.
Jiang Chen.
I like you.
I don't like you.
Okay.
I'll figure it out.
What should I do?
How to make boys fall in love with you?
BE PRETTY. BE SMART.
Look at my oval face, pretty enough.
BE PRETTY. BE SMART.
I don't like that novel.
Girl, our tastes are so different.
Chen Xiaoxi.
I'll recommend you a new one.
- Hand in your test paper. - Masterpiece.
No.
Hand in your test paper.
Seriously, Chen Xiaoxi? You're copying my answers?
You always copy others' answers.
How did you even get admitted to our school?
This test paper was quite easy, so I finished it very quickly.
Shame on me.
You haven't finished it after a whole class period?
Come on. This is the fifth one.
The listening comprehension test was very easy this time.
Was it?
Jiang Chen! He is so handsome!
I think the test was very easy overall,
except for the writing section. The title was tricky.
I think it was "Pursue Your Dream".
Jiang Chen, what do you think?
I didn't write too many words, only about 1,000.
I had many thoughts about this topic.
"Pursue Your Dream" was the sample composition.
The title of our composition was "Impartiality."
You didn't know that?
Look at your English test score.
Your writing is totally off-topic.
Look at your rank in our grade.
You've gone down 75 places.
Keep up at this pace
and after two more tests,
you will be the student with the lowest score in our school.
Compare yourself with Jiang Chen.
You are from the same junior high.
How come he can have the highest score every time?
Why do you keep getting a lower score?
I understand, Ms. Liu.
I will learn from Jiang Chen.
Thank you, madam.
You and I are similar in rank.
How about we form a team?
How about..."Dragon and Tiger siblings"?
Jiang Chen, can you do me a favor?
She is Li Wei.
How can I help you?
The grammar we've learned today is a little confusing for me.
Can you explain it to me?
Tiger Sister, just say yes or no.
Okay. What seems confusing to you?
Who do you think is prettier, me or her?
Her?
She is prettier.
I'm not pretty enough to team up with you.
Don't worry. That's why you'd look like a tiger.
How can we judge people by their score?
"Be considerate."
"Try to prepare breakfast for him,
showing your tender love."
- Morning. - Morning.
Steamed buns for you.
Stop giving me steamed buns.
DAY 2, 7:00 A.M. FRIED DOUGH STICKS.
Jiang.
I read another version of the book
I recommended to you yesterday.
It's not bad.
But I think it lacks some social criticisms.
I'm impressed.
Don't mention it.
Chen Xiaoxi.
You're the smartest girl I've ever seen.
Maybe Jiang Chen has already left?
It's almost eight.
It's your fifth time being late this month.
Grade 1, Class 8, Chen Xiaoxi.
Only seven days of this month have past.
DAY 3, 6:00 A.M.
Preparing breakfast doesn't work.
CONFESS YOUR LOVE.
Stand up.
Good morning, sir.
Good morning.
Find the poem where we stopped last time.
"I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings,
each with its fret an interval of youth."
This poem is very bitterly but beautifully written.
The poet wrote it for his late wife as a love letter.
The sage Chuangzi is day-dreaming, bewitched by butterflies.
"The spring-heart of Emperor Wang is crying in a cuckoo,
mermen weep their pearly tears down a moon-green sea."
"Blue fields are breathing their jade to the sun."
"And a moment that ought to have lasted forever
has come and gone before I knew."
Miss, do you need any help?
Is there a book that can teach me...
how to write a love letter?
Write what?
Write compositions.
Love is a temple?
What in the world is this?
Lu Yang, don't sneak up on me.
Chen Xiaoxi,
do you really think this book can help you write a good love letter?
You don't understand.
Wait a minute, silly.
Don't you know that...
I am the most popular guy... in Chenxi School?
I'm telling you that I have received at least 30 love letters.
Do you know why they all wrote love letters to me?
Why?
Because I'm handsome, witty...
and considerate.
This book...
is much more reliable than you.
"I want to kneel down in front of you
and kiss your feet for a long time."
Maybe you can teach me how to write it?
Lu Yang.
I'm having lunch.
Here. Eat more.
Lu Yang.
Chen Xiaoxi.
My father doesn't allow me to have a girlfriend...
who is ranked at the bottom.
I'm writing it to a guy in another school.
All right.
I'll teach you, but you need to pay back the favor.
My chicken wing.
You received all of these?
I wrote all of these.
Aren't you a popular guy?
Why did you write these?
If you receive a letter,
you need to reply, right?
That's why I wrote these. To comfort others.
It's like you're distributing flyers.
If you help me send all these letters, I'll teach you.
Okay, I will.
You are the boss now.
Let's start with the first sentence.
The opening sentence...
should attract the reader's attention.
Distinguished...
Stupid.
We need a very hot opening.
Hot.
Write like this.
I love you.
Isn't it too hot?
Continue.
I love your eyes.
I love your eyebrows.
I love your reflection in my heart that stirs a ripple.
Good. Flip it.
You will experience a lot in your life.
I hope in your memories I stay.
My love is a tidal wave.
A wave that pushes me toward you.
Where do you live?
Next to Chen Xiaoxi's home.
Are you going back?
Li Wei, is your home in this direction?
I...
I'm going home.
See you tomorrow.
I wrote a poem today.
I'm not sure if it's a good one.
Do you want to hear it?
"My love is a tidal wave.
A wave that pushes me toward you."
What do you think?
What about the rhyme?
If you're so free, do more exercises instead of memorizing song lyrics.
Song lyrics?
"My world has changed because of you."
"Let's drift and wander together...
To make our lives full of--"
They are song lyrics!
Hello?
Xiaoxi, help! Log into your QQ now!
I'll add you to a group chat.
Do me a favor.
Let's talk in the group chat.
ACCEPT
There's an activity for Chris Lee's fans tomorrow.
It'll be held in the city park. Get prepared!
Can't go. Tomorrow is my grandma's birthday.
My friend will be there for me.
Will you go there tomorrow?
Actually, I have something to do tomorrow.
Why are all of you so busy? What do you have to do?
I can help you.
I need to write a love letter.
For my friend.
Easy. I'll help you do that.
Stop there!
I won't say this again.
So you need to remember my words.
I like you.
If you dare to say no to me,
I will...
I will make your school life very miserable, by all means.
If anyone wants to steal you from me,
I will kill--
Who are you?
Why did you eavesdrop?
I didn't.
This is a small campus, and you were talking very loudly.
Girl, is this school so horrible?
So you are a gang boss?
A gangster?
Yes.
So...don't mess up with me.
I can't count on Feimao.
I'll write it myself.
Worn.
I really, really like you! You're perfect in my mind!
Worn.
Correct.
Okay, Lin Jingxiao.
You can pick the next one.
Chen Xiaoxi.
Okay.
Chen Xiaoxi.
Hurry.
Respect.
Organization.
Balance.
I know this one.
Are you the new student, Wu Bosong?
Yes, your majesty.
I asked you to be here at eight.
It's already nine.
Even though you have a sport specialty, you still have to be in class on time.
Come here.
Go up there.
Dictation practice.
Boss, I'm relying on you.
Modest.
Don't look at me, boss. I don't know this one.
What are you waiting for? Write the answer.
I've told you that vocabulary is very important.
Why is it so hard?
Are you copying...
her answers?
Your English is probably better than hers.
I still need to learn from you.
Stop cracking jokes.
Go sit down.
Why do you only know that one word?
Introduce yourself to your classmates.
Hi, I'm the new student, Wu Bosong.
I have a swimming specialty.
We'll be good friends!
Go back to your seat.
You too.
Miss, where should I sit?
There.
Boss.
Why do you call her "boss"?
We have a long story.
Right, boss?
Excuse me? Is Jiang Chen in the classroom?
No.
Where did he go?
- Well... - What?
He transferred to another school.
Which school?
I don't know.
Transferred?
Okay, it's free activity time.
I need to be the first one.
Dear Jiang Chen,
Listen to me carefully.
A carbon atom and an oxygen molecule.
Water is the dispersant.
Draw this graph. Okay?
I asked you to draw it. What are you doing?
They usually exist as molecules or ions.
We discussed this before,
remember?
What is this talking about?
Class dismissed.
Thank you, Miss.
Jiang Chen.
I...
Chen Xiaoxi, have you finished all your work?
...wrote it with all my heart.
How dare you! All you taught me were song lyrics.
I can write way better than you.
Help me send it and you will know who writes better.
Excuse me, is Qin Qiong in your class?
He wrote this for you.
Here you are.
Don't!
Sending love letters to our classmate?
Give it back!
Students in grade 1 are brave!
"Where is our love heading to?"
Stop!
"A distant place or your heart?"
Stop!
"Can you allow me to live in your heart?"
Chen Xiaoxi, let's go.
"A person who secretly loves you so much."
"I don't drink alcohol,
but I feel dizzy when I'm with you."
Stop him!
Chen Xiaoxi, don't. Let's go.
Don't leave so quickly.
I have some comments to share.
Your writing sucks.
My feet can write way better.
Chen Xiaoxi and Lu Yang are quarreling with some senior students.
Tell us, did you write this?
Why don't you speak?
You are brave enough to send the letter but not brave enough to admit it?
Coward.
What happened?
They're reading Lu Yang's love letter.
Reading his love letter?
Yes, that's right.
Can you read all the words alone?
Read it to me now.
Right now.
No.
I won't listen to you, tomboy.
Dude! You've got a potty mouth!
I'll wash it out for you!
Who are you?
A real cool guy.
Psycho.
If you like love letters, you can write some.
Don't grab other's.
Look, she is my boss.
Taking her love letter equals taking my dirty toilet paper.
Understand?
Now, you have a dirty mouth!
I can be dirtier. Want to try?
Zhang Shiliang is coming.
Bro, excellent.
What have you learned?
Fighting with senior students?
This shouldn't happen in a school.
It wasn't a fight. We just quarreled.
Lu Yang, shut up.
Do you think being in the first year is far from the college entrance exam?
Once you become senior students,
you won't have any time to regret!
Who was in that fight?
Who was watching?
All get out of the classroom.
Don't come back until you realize your mistakes.
Miss, it was all my fault.
You know what?
Yes, it was all your fault.
Sending love letters and fighting with senior students.
Sending love letters to a senior student.
What?
You like older girls?
Miss Liu,
I'm telling you,
your students have been behaving badly for many days.
You have to punish them,
or they'll end up in prison.
Okay.
Give me all the other letters.
They're not here with me.
Chen Xiaoxi,
are you an accomplice?
What do you have to do with his love letters?
Does he pay you?
No.
Give them to me!
"Where is our love...
heading to?"
"A distant place or your heart?"
"Can you allow me to live in your heart?"
"A person who secretly loves you so much."
"I don't drink alcohol,
but I feel dizzy when I'm with you."
"I'm drunk in your arms, in this chilly fall."
You wrote them all the same?
You should go distributing flyers.
Oh no.
He's going to read mine.
Sir...
I think students' letters are private.
Isn't it inappropriate to read them out?
Students who write love letters don't have any privacy.
The school has its rules.
Sir,
I don't think the rules would allow you to read other's letters.
Mr. Zhang,
enough, stop reading.
Sir, we've already learned the lesson.
All right. All of you...
write a self-criticism text to me.
At least 1,000 words long, or you're not allowed to leave.
DEAR TEACHER, I'M REALLY REALLY...
Boss,
I've never written anything like this.
Can you help me?
I think you're really good at it.
Okay. Wait for a while.
I'll help you after finishing mine.
Hero.
Here you are.
Thanks, bro.
You stood up for me today.
I didn't.
Okay.
I can teach you how to write this.
No, thanks.
You can't write this.
It doesn't sound like self-criticism.
"Teachers' behavior isn't consistent with quality education principles."
You can't write that.
I'm good at this. I can help you.
You were so cool.
They were bullying you. Why didn't you fight back?
Listen, next time, just...
beat them.
Students in Class 8 are not cowards.
I think the main reason was his writing.
I was practicing.
Lu Yang,
you said you were very popular among girls!
All right.
Anyways, thank you all.
Enough said.
Let's go to an internet bar after school.
How about that?
No.
I can't go, either.
My boss isn't going. Neither am I.
I'll shoot when I see him.
Good job, Jiang Chen.
You're a good shot, just like me.
After today, we are closer than ever.
Let's form a team?
Dragon and Tiger siblings?
You were eavesdropping on my chat with Xiaoxi. Bad boy.
You just couldn't take your eyes off me.
I mean we can form a new team.
Wang Dazhuang's team is G4.
Our team can be...T3.
That sounds so stupid.
No wonder your writing skills suck.
Better than your shooting skills.
Lu Yang, it sounds like an airport terminal.
Jiang Chen,
you finally remember my name!
It's not too hard for me to remember names.
One more game.
Ximen Quanxiu?
Here.
- Women Are the Best? - Here.
Men Mean Nothing to Women?
JC Love?
Is JC Love here?
Yes, I'm here.
Floating Feather?
Here.
CHEER UP CHRIS
Where's the banner?
Right.
How could you put it in your bag?
I spent so much time making this.
There's a scratch on Chris Lee's face!
Why didn't you protect the banner carefully?
You are an unqualified fan.
Right.
Sorry, I didn't mean it.
Okay, we need to find a way to solve this.
Now we don't have the banner.
I have an idea.
Can I try?
What?
What is she doing?
Show me a photo of Chris Lee.
A pretty one.
Hold it.
Okay.
She's good!
Please vote for Chris Lee.
Vote for Chris Lee.
Thank you so much for that.
If it wasn't for you,
I would have been bitterly scolded by them.
By the way, who were you writing that letter to?
How do you know I wrote that?
"For my friend,"
usually means "for myself".
To Jiang Chen, right?
My friend says yes.
Your friend is so different.
How can she like such an icy person?
She may die from cold.
You don't understand.
All right. I don't understand.
Only you understand.
Preparing breakfast for Jiang Chen?
It's my destiny. I can't twist his arm.
Let's go.
Why are you smiling like that?
I just feel happy to go to school with you.
You didn't receive my love letter,
but I think you feel my love.
Jiang Chen.
Steamed buns for you.
Maybe a fairy has cast a spell
To start a conversation between us
This glamorous world is too much to handle
Where can I stop
Don't pay attention To doubts and suppression
Calm down and listen To the heart's answers
What kind of loss makes the heart ache
You must know
Tell me this is a dream
It's the mutter in my sleep
Painting a future home
Full of the things I love
In the dream
All struggles are overcome
You're there looking at me with a smile
Saying gently
Come on, don't be afraid
Dream
Days and nights of worry and concern
Full of hardship and silent anguish
Original intent carried through youth
Tell me it will come true
It's the mutter in my sleep
Painting a future home
Full of the things I love
In the dream
All struggles are overcome
You're there looking at me with a smile
Saying gently, come on, don't be afraid
Saying gently
Come on, don't be afraid