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[My Huckleberry Friends]
Wow, this is good! This is good!
This looks good, too!
Our performance got a prize! We placed third in the whole school!
Mi Qiao, your Animation & Comic Book Club reaped the profits this time, I'll let you keep this.
Ling Xiangqian, where did you take these?
A new photo studio. If you'd like to go, I have a discount card.
Mi Qiao, what about the two of us take some photos?
The two of us?
People take photo of young beauties in action... What will we take photos of?
Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf? You'll be Little Red Riding Hood!
Can you be more serious?
I'm very serious!
What about the girl who picks mushrooms, or the little matchstick girl?
Mi Qiao...
I just want to have photos like Ling Xiangqian's that show us in the prime of our youth.
All right, good girl. With such a baby face, no matter what the theme is you'll look like a kid.
You've hurt my self-esteem.
We've got a prize!
Didn't I say so? As long as I, Mi Qiao, make a move, we will definitely succeed!
Anything produced by the Animation & Comic Book Club will be good stuff!
I must find somewhere to hang it up.
Yan Yi.
Yan Yi... does this look good?
It's pretty cute.
[Episode 10: The Leading Star Game]
I still have many papers to grade.
Just a few minutes, okay? The school official has talk to me about this multiple times.
Just take a look.
- This.- Yes, okay. I've got it.
Look properly!
This. How do you feel?
Hey, Xiao Pan, is something wrong with you? Of course, the first one is better.
Then our Zhen Hua will be much better
than that Normal University High School. Okay, I'm going.
Come back!
The first one is Normal University High School's. The second is ours.
Huh?
If you say that... then I think they're about the same.
If I were a student,
and I looked at this website, then I would enroll in Normal University High School.
It's just a website. You don't have to get so worked up.
Who are we?
We are Zhen Hua.
Can we really lose to Normal University High School? Come up with an idea!
How about this: You pick two students wearing our school uniform
and holding a tennis racket or badminton racket
and standing on a big grass field. Wouldn't there be a sense of thriving youthfulness?
- You've got a point?- Yeah?
Let's do it right away. We'll find a good photo studio to take some portraits and put it on our website.
Okay.
Then whose photos would be suitable?
Let me think.
You should organize an activity. In the forum of our school website,
you can have a vote for Zhen Hua's ambassadors.
Let all the students come up with the top posts.
The boy and girl who get the most votes
will have their portraits taken by the school, and their photos put on our homepage.
Then you'll have your two,
and the forum will also be more popular.
Can we rely on the people the students choose?
I think it'd be more reliable than you choosing.
Who is this page for? The students.
The students' aesthetic is the most representative.
Good job, Old Wu.
You are my wise one! We'll do it as you say.
This stupid Ben Ben. He pushed me off his back during the performance.
If it wasn't for my quick reaction, the performance would have been ruined. My month's worth of effort was almost for nothing.
The version I heard was not like that.
He said you went into the men's bathroom and he ended up exposing himself,
and then you locked the door and caused him to catch a cold for days.
Anyway, I'm not done with him on this matter.
Then how do you plan to solve this?
The two of them? Mi Qiao and Murong, how else can they solve it?
Little Brother Yan Yi gets me.
A duel?
Help me invite him. After 2 weeks, in the peak of Kunlun, we will determine who the victor is.
What method?
What I'm best at, of course!
Have you heard? Supervisor Pan's started a vote on the school forum.
What vote?
To choose Zhen Hua's image ambassadors.
The students with the most votes will have their portraits taken.
And their photos will be put on Zhen Hua's website.
What vote for image ambassadors? This is the school chasing their golden couple!
Why don't the three of you have any reaction to this?
All our classmates have gone mad; they've said they're going to vote the moment school's out!
With those ugly people in their class, I feel that they have no chance.
They might not have anyone, but our class does. You can just get any two people in our class and beat the whole year.
- Anyway, I think there's a popular choice at this table right here.- Who?
What are you talking about?
Zhouzhou, what are you smiling at?
With your baby face, you've looked like that since you were eight.
If you want to be the face of a kindergarten,
I approve. But if you can do this, I can too.
Hey, who were you talking about just now?
Leader Qiao!
Our leader Qiao has height
and good looks, too. And she's the president of the Animation & Comic Book Club!
Stop! Are you teasing me?
If they are looking for some gangleader, I would join.
This ambassador... someone with my looks? Even I would poke my eyes out.
I'm full. I'm off.
- Hey, don't go.- I'm not full, but I've laughed enough. I'm leaving.
Don't go!
If you get chosen, you'd officially be the flower of Zhen Hua. Why can't you take it seriously?
Hey... I'm not going. I'll listen to you.
I'm not going to keep talking, you're a gossip! Eat your food.
Yan Yi... do you think I can participate?
Really?
If your mother sees her precious son's photo on Zhen Hua's website,
her smile would split her face open!
She'll brag to everyone, "Oh, this is our Yang Yang!"
Aren't you going to try for something that will bring such glory to your family?
I'm not interested. It's better to leave the opportunity to those who have something to prove.
I, Lin Yang, don't need these gimmicks.
This is not a gimmick. It's an aura.
You've been nagging me all morning. What is your motive?
I have a sort of bad premonition.
If you don't participate, I'm afraid that Qian Qian and that little class monitor will participate together.
Then they will be the school's golden couple.
The school muse and the school's most handsome boy, that's a perfect made by the heaven.
And then I'll have to keep seeing their smiling joint portrait.
Isn't that cruel?
Chu Tiankuo is so popular, there's no point in me participating.
What if I get chosen, wouldn't it be a drag to take a joint portrait with Ling Xiangqian?
Yang Yang, you can join with Yu Zhouzhou!
Don't you know her personality? Every time she comes across something good she gives way.
When have you seen her show any interest in these showy things?
It's not the same this time.
Everyone is a little vain.
Which girl would resent being pretty?
I know her too well.
She won't participate. I can't help you this time.
Stop talking nonsense! I'll give you a Warcraft card.
You'd better do it yourself.
Are we still brothers?
Two cards! Two cards, okay?
Childish.
Quoting material. Summarizing material.
Once the central argument has been made,
then you do your analysis and provide evidence.
Analyzing the meaning of this part is actually answering a question.
What does it say? Yet, when you answer this part,
leave more spaces--
What's happened?
Blood, Teacher! Xin Rui is bleeding!
Xu Zhiqiang, did you do this?
Yu Zhouzhou, take her to the infirmary.
Let's go!
All of you, sit down. What's going on?
The corner of the right eye is scratched. There's no danger.
It's lucky that this is just a superficial wound.
You have to be more careful in the future.
Teacher, there won't be any residual damage. Right?
It's fine. There might be a tiny scar.
This should be a reminder to you. How did you fall like that during class?
There'll even be a scar...
It's okay. I'm used to it.
Remove the bandage after a week. Be more careful in the future.
If it had been a few millimetres to the left, then there would have been danger.
It's okay. Go back to class.
Thank you, Teacher.
Xin Rui, let's go slowly. It's okay.
Zhouzhou, I don't feel like going back.
Then where do you want to go?
Anywhere.
I just don't want to go back to the classroom.
Actually, I don't feel like going back, either.
Do you feel better?
Zhouzhou,
why do bad things always happen to me?
Why am I so useless?
People always look down on me and laugh at me.
Even my mother... my mother...
Let's play a game.
When I was young, a big brother taught me to play this game.
It's called "The Lead Game."
I'm too stupid.
I thought once I became the group representative
and learned the cello, they would say I was talented and good.
But now I know, actually all of that doesn't matter.
Zhouzhou, let's play a game.
Let's play "The Lead Game."
"The Lead Game?"
He told me to imagine myself as the lead.
And you won't be afraid of being looked down on, laughed at or even framed.
Even if you've fallen down a cliff
and no one knows if you're dead or alive,
there'll always be a cave at the bottom of the cliff.
And in the cave there'll be many secrets.
When you re-emerge into the world, there will be no one who can beat you.
Is this "Lead Game" really useful?
It's useful!
When I was in middle school,
I decided that I would leave familiar places and say goodbye to good friends.
The goal was to
give myself a new start in an unfamiliar environment
and not be bothered by anyone.
Why?
Why do you want to use so much energy
to prove yourself in a strange environment?
Maybe it's just to see how much one is capable of.
Zhouzhou, I always think you're like a white swan
and seen as the central figure.
I've never been any white swan. I'm an ugly duckling.
And I'm not interested in white swans either.
I just took a deep breath and told myself
that the ugly duckling can one day, through her own effort, turn into a heroine.
See? Don't I look like an oversized heroine?
I don't know if you'll be happy if your grades improve,
but at Zhen Hua, it might be your only approach.
But I'm lagging too far behind.
I don't how to make up for it.
I'll help you.
Zhouzhou,
can someone like me be a lead, too?
You're a lead right now!
In the future, we're from the same faction.
May the heroine please help me.
The green mountains will never change, the blue river will forever flow.(T/N: One will never change one's original intentions)
When we see each other in Jianghu again, let us drink three cups and merrily chat.(T/N: Jianghu, is a community of martial artists in wuxia stories and, more recently, outlaw societies.)
My goodness, that's enough!
Fasten it.
What's happened to your eye?
I hit myself by accident.
My god, you should be more careful.
Don't end up failing at your studies and hurting yourself,
then I'll have to pay all your medical bills
and then how will our family survive?
Don't think that just because you're a little injured, that you won't need to work anymore!
Hurry up and come help! There's someone buying cigarettes.
Coming!
Zhouzhou, I went to the mall with your aunt yesterday. We bought some new clothes for you.
Try it on and see if it fits.
- Come, try it.- Thank you, Uncle and Aunt.
No need to be so polite!
What is it? Don't you like it?
No, I like it!
I told you, Zhouzhou will really like these clothes with cartoon prints on them!
Let me tell you. Your uncle saw something with lace. I said that wouldn't do.
Zhouzhou, you've got a baby face. It goes the best with these styles.
If you wear those types it would look too old-fashioned!
Yes, yes. Your aunt has thought of everything.
Next time, we'll follow your aunt's advice when it comes to buying clothes.
Don't look at her plain looks.
When it comes to her fashion sense, she's pretty good.
Okay. Then I'll go try it on in my room.
Thank you, Uncle, Auntie.
Who are you calling plain?
I'm sorry.
Did your dad beat you up again?
Don't talk about it. Please let me stay the night.
[Top topics in Zhenhua High School Forum]
[Actually Zhen Hua's best image ambassadors are Yu Zhouzhou and Lin Yang.]
[3 replies. That's right, they both have good grades.]
Jiang Chuan, screw you! Did you put up that post?
The masses have good eyes. The masses think you two are suitable.
I'm just one among the masses of ten thousands.
I'm just representing everyone's call.
What do you mean ten thousands? How many people pushed it to the top?
You don't know if there are any crazies.
Fine, fine. Don't berate me anymore.
I regret it, too. I thought throwing the pair of you out there would immediately sweep the board
and surpass Chu Tiankuo and Qian Qian.
But I never imagined that you two were no match for them.
This is a lose-lose situation.
How should I explain this to Zhouzhou? Take the post down by tomorrow morning!
Why are there only so few likes?
Don't they have any sense of aesthetics?
What's wrong with a baby face? It's so cute.
In another ten years, others' age will start showing if they don't put makeup on.
You always look like you're wearing a natural mask, how attractive!
You can stop comforting me.
When I was telling Xin Rui about "The Lead Game," there was a moment where I felt like I was lying to her.
Like a leaf telling someone how to flower.
Once I got to Zhen Hua, I've never been the lead.
In class, Ling Xiangqian is the class monitor. In the club, Mi Qiao is holding it together.
Even your most hated Lin Yang, he keeps leading me all over the place.
They are the leads. I'm just the witness.
Zhouzhou, I don't get what you're saying.
Are you participating in the vote for Zhen Hua's image ambassador?
I've decided. I want to participate.
Even if I'm not chosen,
perhaps there would be one little moment in which I will be the lead.
Zhouzhou, are you still on the phone?
Oh, I'm going to sleep now!
Zhouzhou,
I'll always support you.
Thank you.
Oh, right. Mi Qiao asked me to tell you that she wants a duel with you at the peak of Kunlun.
She's so petty, she even holds grudges!
Tell her, I'll meet her any time.
Witch doctors, musicians, and people who do several odd jobs shouldn't serve as one's teacher.
Are you studying?
- Among the clans of Master Tu, there are people addressed as teachers and some as students.- I'm asking you a question.
The people that gathered laughed. He was asked--
Stop wasting time. Even after all this you will still rank at the bottom.
Actually, you're pretty pitiful, too.
The reason why teachers are not being respected and education is not given much importance can be deduced from here.
Witch doctors, musicians, and people who do several odd jobs shouldn't serve as one's teacher.
I checked this morning. The post wasn't taken down.
Do you know why I haven't taken it down?
This IP address likes the post every day.
Seems to be very attentive towards anything to do with Yu Zhouzhou.
And even cast a serious vote under my post.
How mysterious.
Finally, I asked a cousin who works at the telecoms company.
He checked it for me. Guess where the address points to?
Where?
Yu Zhouzhou's uncle's house.
- Which means...- Which means...
Yu Zhouzhou has been following this image ambassador thing, and voted for herself?
To be more precise, it's a vote for the both of you.
This time Yu Zhouzhou wants to participate. Surely you can have nothing more to say?
Is your information accurate?
If I say it's 100% accurate, are you going to leap into action right away?
I must! If Yu Zhouzhou and I become the image ambassadors,
then we'll have to take portraits together.
I've never taken photos with Zhouzhou before.
And it'll go on the school website!
In the future, every time people think of Zhen Hua, they will think of Lin Yang,
and once they think of Lin Yang they will think of Yu Zhouzhou...
Hey, I'm sorry to interrupt.
I remember last night someone was yelling at me
- asking me to cancel the post. Oh no, I must take it off.- Hey, don't take it off!
- I can't, I must take it down!- Brother, I was wrong!
Okay, I won't take it down. One Warcraft card.
- I won't deal with you like this.- Two cards.
- Are you pushing up the price?- Three cards.
Let's discuss how to push the votes up.
I've looked into it already. Didn't Supervisor Pan say it would be a fair contest?
But there's a weakness in voting on the forum.
One ID can only vote once. But if you really want to rig the vote,
just create a few more accounts!
No sleeping tonight.
Help me rig the vote.
What a coincidence!
I came to find this book. Every time it's returned, someone borrows it.
Can you tell me what sort of person you want to become?
Let me tell you a story from my childhood.
When I was in Primary 4, I was chosen to be the student representative
to join a conference about a laptop.
That day, I wore a shirt and tie
and all the reporters were carrying big cameras, and I was surrounded by all the flashes.
So you've been outstanding since you were a child.
That day, everything was wonderful.
But when the organizer suggested that I type "shining" on the computer.
I spent two entire minutes and didn't type a single word.
The reporters left.
I felt like everything that was mine had left me.
That day, I was sad.
That's because you expected too much of yourself.
I only knew how to type in my third year of middle school.
Now I understand, the thing that I've kept brooding over
wasn't that one failure, but the fact that I want to become someone who shines.
It's only when I shine that my efforts have meaning.
But putting in effort is meaningful in itself.
Everyone has a different understanding of it, I guess.
My grandfather gave me my name.
Even until he passed away, I didn't know what "Tiankuo" meant.
One day, I found a couplet he'd left behind.
The immense sea allows fish to leap at liberty, the vast sky lets birds fly freely.
It was only then I understood that he hoped I would become the best. Like a wild fish, like a flying bird: The ocean is wide (kuo), and the sky (tian) is high.
You are someone who I can watch from afar, but can never become.
I think we're the same type.
How can that be?
To tell you the truth,
actually my mom was the one who arranged for me to be the class monitor.
She went to see Teacher Wu.
The goal was to get the attention and care of the school and teachers.
Running for president of the student council was also my mother's plan.
Actually I've never had any goal, and I've never wanted to be any particular sort of person.
I just want to be someone I can become.
It's time for class, let's go back.
- Oh, and one more thing.- Oh, and one more thing.
- You go first.- You'd better go first.
The school is holding the vote for image ambassadors. We're leading in the vote.
I'm willing to take photos with you for the school's website.
I was just going to mention this.
Even if we get chosen, I don't want to go.
Why? It's the students' wish.
That's their wish, not mine.
Do you not like being the center of attention?
Maybe.
But I heard you like taking portraits.
That's for myself to look at. I prefer to be myself.
My god, please stop following me!
I can't! What if we get chosen, you can't stand me up and refuse to take photos.
This image ambassador thing: If you want to do it, we must do it together.
I don't want to take photos with any other girl for the website.
Lin Yang, can you please have some self-awareness?
Our votes are not even in the top three. Do you think we can get chosen just like that?
I'm saying, in case! There's still time before the closing of the vote.
Any sort of miracle could happen.
Okay. If that miracle happens, I'll go with you.
- No backsies!- No backsies.
How is it?
Everything is prepared, we just need the opportunity.
Don't be happy too early.
Do you know how far you're lagging behind Qian Qian and that pretty boy Chu Tiankuo? It's hundreds of votes!
See you at the internet cafe downstairs at 10 p.m.
What do you mean?
Making the opportunity.
The child is tired.
Look at how well he's sleeping.
Don't wake him up.
[Immediately register your forum]
Why are you only here now? I've already registered tens of IDs.
Let's start.
Uncle, aren't you sleeping yet?
I need to sort things for you.
I'll go pour you a glass of milk, okay?
Go to sleep soon.
The miracle still hasn't happened.
We've surpassed them.
There's still five minutes to the closing time. We're ahead by over 30 votes. Job done.
Let's go! Let's have breakfast.
Zhouzhou and Lin Yang are pretty good!
They surpassed Ling Xiangqian and Chu Tiankuo at the last moment.
I think our Zhouzhou is the prettiest.
I voted for Zhouzhou and Lin Yang.
I voted for them, too.
I don't know if you've noticed; Zhouzhou is the sort who grows on you the more you look at her.
But don't you think it's weird? Last night, Ling Xianqian was far ahead.
How did they surpass them in one night?
Ling Xiangqian,
I'm sorry. Lin Yang must have rigged the ballot.
Last night, there was such a big difference; we couldn't have made it up in a short time.
I'll go tell Supervisor Pan that this vote can't be accepted.
To tell you the truth: Even if Lin Yang didn't rig the vote, I didn't want to go.
I don't want to be the center of attention for people to talk about.
You can't go tell Supervisor Pan. Do it for me.
And thank Lin Yang for me. He gave me a way out.
Zhouzhou, Supervisor Pan wants to see you.
Supervisor Pan wants to see you.
Zhouzhou, don't abandon me!
Hey, who told you to rig the vote? This is cheating. Aren't you embarrassed?
Who cheated? This is going according to the rules.
Supervisor Pan said one person can only vote once.
He said that one ID can vote once. The law didn't prohibit it.
Anyway, my methods are good; he can't tell.
The whole school has 1,500 people, but there are 2,000 votes between the top two.
Do you think Supervisor Pan's IQ is like yours?
Hey!
You should know why I've called you two here.
Why?
You two were voted by the students to be Zhen Hua's image ambassadors.
You'll represent the school to take photos, and have your photos on the website for potential students.
Oh, so it's about this!
It's pretty good, Lin Yang, Yu Zhouzhou.
You two have good looks, good grades
and your characters are good, too. I think it's appropriate for you to represent Zhen Hua.
Supervisor Pan, I have something that I would like to tell you.
Tell me.
Actually, I shouldn't be the appointed one.
Why not?
It's like this, Yu Zhouzhou has always been insecure about her looks.
She feels like she has a baby face and isn't photogenic. She's afraid she'll pull down Zhen Hua's image.
Yu Zhouzhou, you're wrong here.
What's wrong with a baby face? I think a baby face is good!
It's lively, cute and dynamic.
This vote is not like ordinary times. It's not just the faith your school has in you.
It's a reflection of your own self-worth. It's very meaningful.
Even though you'll be at Zhen Hua for a short time, just three years;
but you will leave a colorful mark on Zhen Hua.
Think about it further. How many young people will see this photo in the years to come.
The teens then will be standing on the shore of success, behind them is a flourishing scene of prosperity.
When they wear their uniforms, how nostalgic will that be?
Supervisor Pan, you've moved me.
I regret that I didn't take such a photo in my youth. Why are you still hesitating?
All right! It's set. Go and get ready.
Okay. Thank you, Supervisor Pan.
Go on!
Bye, Supervisor Pan.
It's good.
It's just a vote. Don't be like this, okay?
They must have cheated.
I want to talk to Supervisor Pan about it.
- There's a question I've wanted to ask you before.- What is it?
You want so much to win: Is it because you can represent Zhen Hua and have your photo taken
or is it because you want to take photos with me?
If it's the former, then trash it.
If it's the latter, then come find me at this address.
The two of you, stand closer.
A little closer.
Hands, hands. Don't be shy.
Okay, good.
Good.
Okay, good.
Don't be shy. Change to a different pose.
Good! The two of you, get closer.
Okay.
You two, look at each other.
Okay! Okay, let's go.
♫ You are a moment of breath, the fragments of a blossomed fireworks ♫
Your expressions! Good.
Good.
♫ Before I mustered the courage to hold your hand ♫
♫ Going through light to see the exchange between day and night ♫
♫ Going through wind, suddenly it stopped ♫
I'm here.
Come in. Let's just look at this camera.
And we'll start after three, two, one...
Three, two, one...
Boy, hold her hand.
Hold hands!
Hold hands, not just hooking fingers!
Do you know how to hold hands? Is it that hard?
Hold hands!
Good!
♫ Flying towards that star ♫
So they say that everyone has one time where
it feels like the whole world is just in your supporting cast.
♫ It's that grace that's flying and dancing within the shadow ♫
One, two, three...
♫ Before I mustered the courage to hold your hand ♫
This one didn't come out right. What were you doing?
I like this one. You?
♫ Going through wind, suddenly it stopped ♫
♫ Going through you, going through the rain or shine and instability of youth ♫
You really held hands with Yu Zhouzhou?
And not just that! Do you know what it means to be so close you can smell each other's breath?
So this is the legendary "zero-distance contact."
The most important thing is, the photos of Yu Zhouzhou and I having "zero-distance contact"
will be put on the Zhen Hua website.
It'll be praised and passed on
by Zhen Hua's junior brothers and sisters
and their junior brothers and sisters
and be a symbol of Zhen Hua.
[Zhenhua High School]
Hey, come look!
[Zhenhua High School]
This is the "zero-distance contact" you were talking about?
I think it's more like "each in one side of the sky."
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♫ I wrote a distant song for the distant you ♫
♫ Your laugh and mine weave together ♫
♫ This is my fondest memory of the past ♫
♫ Crying, laughing, aching, acting wildly ♫♫ as I bid farewell to the past ♫
♫ That old string melody sings our story ♫
♫ The story starts with your bashful smile ♫
♫ The light breeze in my face is like the way you talk ♫
♫ There are always regrets in life ♫♫ Just let it be ♫
♫ The brief sunlight warms my heart all the same ♫
♫ There are always moments worth yearning for ♫♫ that we can't go back to ♫
♫ The memories of you ♫♫ that I can't return to or throw away ♫
♫ There are always regrets in life ♫♫ Just let it be ♫
♫ The brief sunlight warms my heart all the same ♫
♫ There are always moments worth yearning for ♫♫ that we can't go back to ♫
♫ The memories of you ♫♫ that I can't return to or throw away ♫
♫ The things I can't return to or throw away ♫♫ are collected at the bottom of my heart ♫