To Prevent You from Becoming Me

In 2028, Chong Feng was frustrated in life as an adult. He had no friends and could not handle the interpersonal relationships around him well. He has never been able to let go of his broken friendship with Yu Cang in elementary school, and he was resentful of the small group around Yu Cang that gradually excluded him. Once while resting under the cherry tree in his hometown, he accidentally made a wish "It would be great if I could go back to the past" and then traveled to 2016. Chong Feng, who had nowhere to go, changed his name to "Yu Feng" and used his experience as a normal school student and English major to enter a rural primary school that was about to close down and become a temporary substitute teacher. Here, he met his fourth-grade self and the young Yu Jian, and for the first time he saw from a teacher's perspective how naughty, sensitive, and unpopular he was as a child. Chong Feng originally thought that as long as he prevented Xiaoyi, Xueqin and others from approaching Yu Jian, he could keep this friendship. But as he gradually became involved in the children's lives, he began to realize that the breakup between the two was not entirely caused by the instigation of others. As a child, Chong Feng did hurt his classmates, and because he was afraid of losing Yu Jian, he developed strong dependence, jealousy, and possessiveness. When the adult Chong Feng tried to change the past, he would hurt himself again as a child because of favoritism, evasion, and excessive interference. In repeated conflicts, the adult Chong Feng learned to no longer regard his childhood self as the source of failure in life, but accompanied him to bear his mistakes, express his fears, and learn to respect Yu Jian's choices. At the same time, Xiao Chongfeng gradually saw that he was still trapped in loneliness and self-loathing as an adult, so he reminded him not to continue to give up on life. In the end, when the key storm in history that led to the breakup of friendship between Chong Feng and Yu Jian happened again, Xiao Chongfeng no longer used anger, hurt and possession to keep Yu Jian, but admitted his mistakes and confessed that he was afraid of being left behind. Yu Jian did not accommodate him unconditionally out of pity. Instead, after establishing the boundary, he actively chose to continue to maintain this friendship. The adult Chong Feng thus successfully changed the ending of the relationship between the two. Before leaving, Xiao Chongfeng and Yu Jian jointly gave "Teacher Yu" a letter and a painting. Chong Feng returned to 2028 with these two gifts from the past, and faced his original chaotic and lonely life again. This time travel did not solve all the real problems for him, but it made him no longer hate his past self. It also gave him the courage to pick up the paintbrush again, contact Yu Jian, and start to change his current life. Purpose: A person's past injuries can explain his mistakes, but they cannot exempt him from the responsibility of hurting others; and a person who has made mistakes should not be permanently judged as hopeless because of this. The real redemption is to learn to take responsibility while being understood, to repair the relationship while respecting each other's choices, and to finally accept the imperfect self.