Back to My Mom's Youth

[Resilient, imaginative sweetheart ✖️ gentle, cool guy with a heart of gold]

Jiang Xingyue’s father is a bully at home, and he causes her mother, Zhao Yunli, to get into a car accident.

To save her mother, Jiang Xingyue joins an experiment and travels back to the turn of the millennium with her partner, Shen Yanqi.

Sixteen-year-old Zhao Yunli has just finished her high school entrance exams and is waiting at home for her results. She doesn’t know that she’ll get into high school but won’t be able to afford to attend. She’ll have to go out to work, marry young, and spend her whole life trapped in a quagmire.

Jiang Xingyue has to get her out of there.

She pays Zhao Yunli’s tuition, goes to school with her, and tells her she should live for herself.

Shen Yanqi: “I’ll help you.”

Under one roof, Shen Yanqi cooks, Zhao Yunli does the dishes, and Jiang Xingyue sneaks food. Two time travelers and a girl from the new millennium: they seem like a real family.

Jiang Xingyue thinks she’s in a wish-fulfillment story from the start.

Until she finds out

Shen Yanqi was using her to find someone. Once their partnership ends, his services do too.

Jiang Xingyue: Give me my money back!

But she doesn’t ask for it back just yet.

Because she wants to watch her mother grow up, one step at a time. She wants to see her mother go to college.

And he doesn’t leave either.

He looks at her sixteen-year-old profile and suppresses a trace of tenderness. “Did you shrink?”

Jiang Xingyue glares at him.

He turns his face away. What can he do? He still likes her.

P.S. Set at the turn of the millennium, with equal focus on family and romance. A slow burn.

*Anti-piracy: 60%, 12 hours

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Sensitive girl ✖️ golden boy | She falls for him first | He pursues her

1.

I lower my head as I walk up the stairs. A pair of white sneakers appears in my line of sight. I move right to let them pass, but their owner moves the same way. I shift left, and he shifts left too.

I look up and see him smiling. He did it on purpose.

He says, “Why are you moving? Didn’t you see it was me?”

From Bo Yunsheng’s diary

2.

Ren Changfeng has heard of Bo Yunsheng. Bo Yunsheng: what a naturally grand, imposing name. He thinks it’s a boy and wants to get to know him, but is surprised to find she’s a girl.

He’s in high school at the time, young and in the prime of his youth, the golden boy everyone looks up to. He’s never short of girls who like him. He’s used to the attention and has briefly flirted with a few of them.

He knows Bo Yunsheng’s name, but not her, even though they’re often competing for first place in their grade. His gaze has never lingered on her.

Things change that summer. By chance, Bo Yunsheng moves into Ren Changfeng’s house for an extended stay. With her so close, he gradually starts to sense something’s off. He suddenly thinks Bo Yunsheng likes him.

He’s really not being conceited! Just look at Bo Yunsheng’s WeChat name: French Fries.

French fries = fried until crispy = “fry crispy” = the letters f, y, c, r, s = rearrange them as r, c, f, y, s = Ren Changfeng, Yunsheng = Ren Changfeng and Bo Yunsheng = Bo Yunsheng likes Ren Changfeng.

Ren Changfeng’s ears turn bright red as he stares at the screen, unsure what to do.

Should they get together? Would it affect her studies...? Probably not. She’s so smart. Dating would only make things better. But why hasn’t Bo Yunsheng confessed to him yet?

Never mind. He can confess to her instead.

But she turns him down.

3.

He finally saw me, but I didn’t need him anymore.

You ask if I still like him.

Of course I do.

But I don’t think I’ll ever be with him.

From Bo Yunsheng’s diary

Theme: Love can transcend time.