Our Story That Year

Youth is like the season when flowers bloom. They always blossom and fade overnight, leaving behind only the scent of flowers carried on the wind in our memories, and the most beautiful sight they were at their peak. In a season like this, we meet the people we are meant to meet, as well as those we are not. We have to learn to accept it. After Li Yiyi chose art, she came to J City and met Ye Haoning, Lu Xifan, Lao Wan, Brother Qiang, Wu Tian, Chen Junxin, and a number of other friends at the Number One Art Studio. They shared both tears and laughter. Though they were once all innocently chasing their dreams, changes in real life forced their worldviews to twist, and in the end, they each made different choices.

Li Yiyi and Ye Haoning both harbored vague feelings for each other, but they worried too much about one another. When Zheng Xinqi appeared, Li Yiyi chose to step aside. Later, after Lu Xifan persistently pursued her, and because she had initially been touched by his sharpening her pencil for her, Li Yiyi agreed to date him. In the end, Li Yiyi and Lu Xifan still broke up because of Zheng Xinqi. Unable to accept reality after the breakup, Li Yiyi considered taking her own life. After Brother Qiang rescued her, she looked back on everything she had been through and realized that what she felt for Lu Xifan wasn't love, but an illusion that had gradually grown out of the gratitude she first felt. The person she truly loved was Ye Haoning. He had quietly stayed by Li Yiyi's side day after day, but because of their mistakes and missed chances, Ye Haoning eventually took a photo of Li Yiyi and went abroad to pursue his dream. The story also shows how difficult the road to the arts entrance exams can be. Behind the glamorous image of arts students lies endless hard work: they must excel not only in their artistic studies, but also in their general academic subjects.

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