Our Shiny Days
Episode 18
At the Crossing Where Phoenix Flowers Bloom
Sa,
Sa, what are you doing?
It seems you've really recovered.
You're so vigorous.
Wake up, OK?
I've no idea how lucky
a man can get.
But the most miserable case for a man
is to lose his life.
To be honest,
I was in the hospital
and spent my days
in the bed.
All I want is to leave the hospital
and spend a whole day under the sunshine,
only one day would be enough.
Let alone go against my father's will,
even if I get beaten up by every single person in the world,
I would still be happy.
I mean it.
Don't go for the sugar mountain if you don't want to.
If you feel good about standing under the sun,
don't let others force you into the shadow.
Sa,
you've come back from hospital.
Since I had been away for so long,
the audience must be dying to see me.
It's quiet.
Stubborn!
But your eyes have betrayed your heart!
If you practice your musical instrument in the dorm,
one sound
might waken the whole school.
The highest state of art
is playing in silence
and dancing in the dark.
You know nothing.
I give it up.
"Petrel" is so difficult.
How to memorize this score?
The melody is terribly intricate.
You have to play "Petrel" in the final exam.
I played it last year.
Then how did you memorize the score?
I learned it off after taking a medicine.
Recommend it to you?
What medicine? What medicine?
Can I get it from our school hospital?
Isn't it an illegal drug?
Su Bei,
although you always get high grades, never try to advance rashly.
Don't touch drugs.
The medicine I've taken
has a formal name of "Effort"
and an English name of "Try Harder."
Su Bei,
I have a word for you:
Drinking icy water in cold days,
one feels every drop on heart.
In the dorm,
it's too hot.
Move away.
OK.
What to do? I want to give her a bunch of flowers,
and then cry.
I asked you
to move away.
I've sewed it up.
Tonight,
right now,
I think our dorm
is home to top students.
Exactly.
Dad,
listen to me.
I didn't talk back to you.
That's true. I just...
Don't tell me that much.
Let me tell you, brat,
I'll break your legs if you don't do as you are told.
I also have something I want to adhere to, dad.
Adhere to?
Adhere to what?
Dad, can you hear me out?
What's so good about playing the damned drum?
Don't be angry.
Stop talking.
Don't be angry.
Do as what I told you.
Dad.
No electricity and no air conditioning.
How to practice?
Too hot!
It's the end of this term.
The school shouldn't cut off the electricity.
We're asked to lose no time in review every day.
How to review now?
Just do it secretly.
Don't take out the big one.
If a teacher comes,
no one can practice any more.
Be conscientious, guy!
No, what did you do already?
Don't make sarcastic comments.
Come out and walk around.
I'll applaud you.
Don't you think it's not noisy enough, do you?
How about setting off a string of small firecrackers for you?
You can just kick up a fuss.
You're so loud.
Why not use your throat to generate electricity?
How do you talk?
Who are you talking about?
You guys.
What can you do?
Come on, I am talking about you. What can you do?
Who're afraid of you? Come out if you dare.
What? I'm talking about you. What can you do?
I'm just talking about you. You come out.
Come over!
I'm just talking about you.
Chen Jing,
Li You asked you out that night.
What was the matter?
He first beat around the bush
and finally told me that
he was very happy to perform on the stage with me.
Just for this kind of thing?
Then he is really polite.
Anyway, my original purpose of forming a band
was to express my love to my favorite senior.
As for other things,
I don't care.
Your favorite senior?
Who is he?
Wang Wen of the Piano Department.
He's the reincarnation of Chopin, do you now?
Wang Wen?
The one with facial paralysis?
Not so serious.
But he looks like a perverted murderer.
So Chen Jing,
your life goal
is to ask for trouble, right?
No matter what,
we all support you!
With facial paralysis,
he must have less expression lines when he becomes old.
When are you going to confess?
Hurry up.
They'll graduate in the next semester.
As a piano major,
he must go abroad.
When he's busy,
he won't consider anything else.
What the hell?
Sa,
You've just come back from hospital. What are you doing?
I want a little wind and power supply.
Sa, you are weak.
Don't mess around.
Don't we live to mess around?
Come on.
Well.
Don't stop me
There'll be numerous days lying in the future.
It's so hot.
Others sleep with air conditioning.
We students
who are so energetic now
have to stay in the stuffy room.
It's unfair.
-It's unfair, -Indeed.
Unfair!
Sa, summer vacation is coming.
We can enjoy it at home, OK?
I just want to play.
A punishment is nothing for me.
What are you afraid of?
There are some persons on the opposite platform.
Perhaps they've seen us.
What a shame!
Let's go now.
Do you think you're not shameful when you're wrapped by clothes?
Sa, if there's nothing else,
we'll go back first.
It was a little hot just now, but it isn't hot now.
We're just a little sleepy.
Sa, let's go back too.
I don't leave.
I'm here to enjoy the moon, OK?
Your shout
can be heard in the downtown.
How can others sleep?
We're
the students of Zhongxia Conservatory of Music
who're going to leave school.
We'll graduate in two days.
Do you know
this matter?
-Yes. -Yes. Yes.
What's the first article of the rules
for boys' dorm building 1
at Zhongxia Conservatory of Music?
Seniors' graduation is paramount.
This year,
we've bullied you much.
Before leaving, we'll leave some gifts.
You made the start?
You're quite something.
It depends on you in the future.
Senior,
which melody?
Auld Lang Syne.
Hello.
Director,
come to school quickly.
What a grand formation!
Hello, seniors!
The boys sent WeChat messages to us,
asking us to come to the platform to witness a battle.
What are you doing?
This year's graduation carnival has started so early!
Shall we lend a hand?
Just watch them playing.
I should prepare some fireworks.
The official helpers are coming.
Students,
if you have any requirements,
you can communicate with the teachers tomorrow.
It's too late today.
Please return to your dorms immediately.
Director,
shall I take them over there now?
You're running wild.
The children have gathered on the podium.
What to do if a stepping accident occurs?
-Now... -Director.
Director.
Mr. Wang.
I didn't tell you to come.
I was dining with some friends nearby.
I just saw the news on a student's Moments.
-OK. -So I came here quickly.
Now, you see.
What to do?
I have two methods.
The first method is simple.
Say it.
The simpler, the better.
Since they want power supply,
you just have the air conditioners turned on.
Don't cut off the power tonight.
Turn on all lights.
The students who're going to leave school can't sleep.
If asked to shut up in the dark,
they'll explode easily.
What's my duty as the department director?
I'm responsible for ensuring students' safety
and observing the school disciplines.
If I failed to handle either of them smoothly, it's my fault.
Since its founding, the school has set a rule
that lights shall be turned off at 10 o'clock in the evening.
It has never changed.
The rule was set by
Mr. Chen Limin, the first president of our school.
Rise up upon hearing the crow of a rooster and sleep in the accompaniment of stars.
This rule
has been included into the regulations of our school.
I'm not qualified to change it.
Then, let's adopt the second method.
Let me say goodbye
to them earnestly
The students who are going to leave school,
I'm your tutor,
Mr. Wang.
In two days,
you'll leave this school.
Before leaving, you gather
and make a final request to the school.
I can understand your mood.
Before leaving this school,
you want to see it more clearly
and chat with fellows
under lights.
I understand this feeling better.
Now, you are about to
graduate from Zhongxia Conservatory of Music.
In your future life,
maybe your bedroom lights won't be turned off,
and you can use mobile phones freely.
Many things you want to escape from now
won't emerge.
Although you're making a request to our school,
I think
you're bidding farewell to
this school in your own way.
Well, I also take this opportunity
to bid an informal farewell to you.
As a teacher,
every year,
I see off graduates like you.
They set off for a wider world.
But I
will always stay here
because I know
someday,
when they get lost
in the wide world,
they would go back to this campus
to cherish the memories
of the school rules.
They will find that the days in the school
when lights are turned off at due time
and meals are served on time are so simple
yet so beautiful.
Right now,
you're still here.
Why not enjoy
such days longer?
Director.
Miss Chen,
why are you here?
WeChat Moments.
You haven't screened from these students.
Why should we?
In my Moments, they always give me "Like".
Director,
the child's father is on a business trip.
I came after getting the child to sleep.
Sorry.
Even you have been startled, Ms. Zhao.
Well,
as the tutor of Graduation Performance Class,
I'll make the last roll call.
Yang Wenyu.
Violin major
Yang Wenyu.
Here.
Erhu major Zhang Fan.
Here.
Trumpet major, Tang Juncheng.
Here.
Bamboo flute major Yi Hao.
Here.
National percussion major He Shanchuan.
Here.
Tuba major Wu Yu.
Here.
Cello major Li Peng.
Here.
Piano major Fu Zhemin.
Here.
All those who have been called just now,
now, as your tutor,
I require you for the last time
to go back to sleep immediately.
Yes, sir.
In the past year,
as your tutor,
I've felt honored.
I hope you
have no regret in these years
at Zhongxia Conservatory of Music.
Sir,
I have a regret.
Say it out.
Guzheng major of the Graduation Class, Wen Xiuzhen,
I'm
Zhang Fan, an c
I,
I want to ask you,
what do you think of me?
We're going to graduate instead of dying.
You don't need to do so.
Zhang Fan, erhu major of the Graduation Class,
I've no opinion of you.
OK, I know.
I have no regret now.
I'm a tuba major of the Graduation Class, Wu Yu,
I want...
Mr. Wang,
you should control this situation.
Do it quickly.
Director,
you asked me a few days ago
to prepare some different graduation gifts
to the students.
This is a different gift.
I'm not here.
This user has been invisible to you.
Is the canteen chef here?
I have something inside to say to you.
What?
The food you cook is really unsavory.
But when we can't have it anymore,
we must miss it.
Zhongxia Conservatory, your name is so nice.
No. 224 Music Room, goodbye!
All the boys,
you promised to dine all the girls when we graduate,
can you fulfill the promise?
Due to limited funds,
we'd rather come back
for a reunion dinner during the next Spring Festival.
No sincerity.
Taking this opportunity,
why not express your love deep in the night?
It's so noisy now.
Senior Wang Wen must be awake.
You two, drop that notion out of your mind.
Since Chen Jing formed this band
just for this purpose,
why not grasp this golden opportunity,
or you'll have a great pity if missing it.
Unless Chen Jing just said so,
but likes someone else in heart.
No one else. No.
I only have Wang Wen in my heart.
For some matters, those closely involved cannot see as clearly as those outside.
Sometimes, one's destination is the sea,
but as the journey continues, he or she finds himself or herself fall in love with a high mountain.
These are uncertain.
No change. No change.
It's just Wang Wen. I only like Wang Wen.
Then, shout it out.
Senior Wang Wen of the piano major,
I'm Chen Jing, a yangqin major.
A junior is appearing now.
Wang Wen.
Where's Wang Wen?
Call him over here quickly.
A folk music major expresses her admiration to a Western music major.
It's a cross-race love!
Come on!
Senior Wang Wen.
Senior,
that girl who plays yangqin...
Senior Wang Wen,
I...
What's wrong with her?
She's nervous.
She's too nervous.
I...
Senior Wang Wen,
I want to tell you that
yangqin is really great!
This junior, what's wrong with you?
What a joke!
How can she praise her major here?
Next.
Can't you bother me any more?
I don't like you.
I only like piano.
Can't you let me keep quiet?
What do you mean?
That girl just asks you whether yangqin is great.
Why are you so anxious?
What to do? Picking a fault?
We think the folk music is not great.
Can't we express it?
The seniors are going to leave school,
so they're afraid of missing something.
You're so anxious to lose face.
What's your purpose?
If you really think the folk music is great,
why do you mind the other's idea so much?
My junior dares to love and hate.
It's none of your business.
Has she grabbed your microphone?
The folk music majors are bullying our Western music majors.
You are really shameless.
Who dares to bully our violin princess?
What instrument is yangqin?
For what are you proud of it?
Whether it's great or not,
wait and see when you look for jobs.
Don't go too far.
Our folk music majors bully you.
-What's up? -What's up? What's up?
Wang Wen,
have you ever listened to it carefully?
Yangqin's tune,
have you ever heard?
Yangqin
was introduced to China from Persia in the Ming dynasty.
It's of the same clan with piano.
The first piano was invented
in Germany in 1709.
But yangqin has existed
in China for over 400 years.
Over 400 years.
Why do you look down on her?
Folk music,
have you ever heard?
Do you understand its history?
If it's not great,
why do we bother to learn it for so many years?
After you go abroad,
don't you want to tell foreigners that
our own music is also superb.
We come here to learn your instruments
just out of our hobby.
Isn't this answer
not cooler?
How should I understand your tears?
Are you weeping with joy
or due to sadness?
You're just refused.
You shouldn't be so sad.
Since it's so hot, my eyes are sweating.
Mr. Wang asked us to go back to sleep.
Don't you hear?
It's my turn.
Junior Chen Jing,
we still have time.
To prove how great yangqin is
and how superb the folk music is,
go to find a stage.
After getting on the stage,
you can let them appreciate slowly.
I still have one word.
Follow me to shout it out.
Music is classless.
Disband.
Go to sleep.
The senior is so angry.
It must be because
no girl senior cued him just now.
There mustn't be any other reason.
Sa,
don't you go?
I don't want.
Today,
the moon is so beautiful.
I want to appreciate it longer.
I'll stay with you.
Mr. Chen,
how did you come?
I drank a little wine for dinner,
so I got a taxi.
Then, let me get you back.
No, thanks.
What if I insist?
I'll
insist on refusing it.
Mr. Wang,
my personal safety
should be worried about by my boyfriend.
Thank you for your concern.
But it's really unnecessary.
I may be disqualified to say it if I don't express it earlier.
But my concern is really sincere.
Well,
Mr. Chen,
be careful on your way.
I'll.
Don't worry.
Li You,
I like you.
Li You,
I like you very much.
Hello, senior.
We're juniors.
I'm a bamboo flute major.
I'm a pipa major.
We saw the online videos
of your band's performance.
It's so cool.
The folk music is so cool.
So, we want to ask you
whether your band still needs new members.
Can we join it?
Is this the only illustrated book in your house?
Have you kept a cat?
I'm allergic to it.
Why do you read it without keeping a cat?
For something you can't possess,
you may be more curious to understand it.
Be more curious to understand it.
I write it down.
I'll quote it on my microblog.
Mr. Chen, need I pay you royalties?
What else are you going to do?
I've finished reading it.
Let's exchange our books.
What are you reading?
Is it illustrated?
"How to Dislike Someone."
Why are you reading such a book?
What to do with this skill?
Do you have any idea about me?
I tell you what,
in the nature, love is
most beautiful natural.
Don't go against the God's will.
This is a book about psychology.
There are some suggestions
on the care for mental health of adolescents.
Are you thinking a little too much?
I'm scared.
The most beautiful natural in the nature.
I also write it down.
I'll take it as a negative example when teaching composition.
My royalty is very high.
Mr. Chen...
What on earth...
Don't you practice what you've learned from this book?
You will certainly not be allergic to this cat.
It shakes its tail to both sides, showing it's in a good mood.
There is too much sun outside.
Let's go inside.
On my birthday,
my dad sent that pot of orchids to me.
He's grown it for 18 years.
Sorry.
Feng Anyu, stand still.
Don't run to my bedroom.
Feng Anyu.
Who is Feng Anyu?
I'm your cat, your cat.
Our band will have new members.
Wait.
What you did really let me down.
Aunt,
what are you doing?
It's you.
The bad friend of my daughter is you, right?
She didn't look like this before.
Mom,
you can scold me anyway,
but don't scold my friend, OK?
You...
Chen Jing,
leave now.
We've regretted sending you to this conservatory.
Among the children of your dad's colleagues,
it's normal for them to enter Peking University or Tsinghua University,
and many of them have been admitted to top-ranking universities overseas.
What about you? You even
accompanied such a person,
and your performance has been uploaded to the Internet.
That video
was sent to us by the daughter of your dad's colleague.
What you did is really a shame for us.
Look,
see for yourself what you have been addicted to.
If I haven't rushed to check on you,
I wouldn't know you have been so addicted.
Haze's mom
is like this.
When Haze was born,
her parents were very old.
Both of them are highly educated,
so they have a high expectation on Haze.
During her childhood,
they moved many times for her to go to good schools.
To take good care of her,
her mom resigned very early
to look after her at home.
Her mom has a clear plan on her future.
Therefore, in her plan,
Haze is not allowed to take a wrong step.
It's not the first time that
her mom got angry.
Every time when Haze comes back from summer or winter vocation,
she seems to have lost some weight.
This time, due to our band,
Haze has run counter to her mom.
In fact, her mom only wants to hear her to say
she won't join the band anymore,
and then she could be let off.
However,
due to her personality,
as long as she promises you,
she won't be the one who gives up halfway.
She'll have a hard time during this summer vocation.