Story in Reply 1988

Who will wake up first from the big dream? I know myself all my life. I had enough sleep in the spring in the thatched cottage, and the sun was getting late outside the window. It is said that freedom is good. There are many sufferings in the world, but there is no freedom without power. Freedom is so expensive that a group of people have to pay for it. Xi Yan, an ordinary Chinese, wakes up and travels back to Reply 1988, where he experiences the joy of childhood, the shortage of supplies, and the fragmentation of the times brought about by the rapid development of South Korea. With the great abundance of supplies, a group of people run forward, but leave behind a large number of people. The story of the young Xi Yan, who went from being silent, to determined to change, to assimilation.