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Meng zhong de na pian hai (2023)
Must watch!
It's been a long time since I had this much fun watching a TV Drama. Everyday we has this group discussion about the plot, the characters and guess what's going to happen next (and we mostly guess wrong 🤣) Although this story is mostly the male protagonist's biography, but every other characters have their own story, no one is lacking behind.
"The Youth Memories" is a story about a group of Beijing youth who had their own lifes and dreams. Starting from their youth through the changing of the era, from 1970s to 2000s, they all had their ups and downs. Some has changed along with the world, but some remain true to their hearts.
In this drama you can see a hotheaded and loyal to a fault Beijing youth "Xiao Chunsheng" (portrayed by Xiao Zhan), who never give up on his dream to become a soldier just like his heroic father but due to political issues his dream has been postponed. When his dream comes true, he shines like a bright moon in the sky. And when he's at his lowest (he gets injured to saves his best friend's life, and since he has spinal injury he can't walk and have to retire from the troop, his gf breaks up with him, his beloved dad has passed away 2 months prior and he has no idea) He's lost and angry, but he still never give up. Fortunately Tong Xiaomei, a girl who secretly has been in love with him for so long, is with him all the way through his recovery and give him a new dream.
Chunsheng's two childhood friends, Ye Guohuo and Chen Hongjun, in the beginning they were good and supportive friends. Ye Guohuo always feels that he's Chunsheng's inferior in everything (except wealth), Chunsheng also have the girl of his dream Hongling as his girlfriend even though they met first (before she breaks up with Chunsheng and later becomes his wife but she always love Chunsheng) Guohuo secretly holds this grudge for Chunsheng for a long time till their adulthood. But despite all the hurt and backstabbing Guohuo did to him, Chunsheng still considers Guohuo his friend and helping him through the tough time. Two friends later makes up and become brothers once more.
Chen Hongjun on the other hand, he's poor and self-pity but he loves and look up to Chunsheng all his youth. His bright future as a univerity student was handed to him with Chunsheng's blood on it (literally) And when he later becomes an custom officer, he tries to help Chunsheng who is jobless due to his recovery from the injury. But when he realizes that having Chunsheng working with him will dim his lights that he's been collecting this whole time, Hongjun does the unthinkable by framing Chunsheng using authority. Chunsheng not only isn't angry with him, he also resigns from the job so he is no longer in Hongjun's way. Fame and private interest make a nice young man become a corrupted officer. His wife and Guohuo's sister, Ye Fang, is the one who send him to jail.
Three friends has their own dreams, choose their own paths. Sometimes their paths cross, sometimes they're on each other's end. Time changes things, all that remain the same are Chunsheng's loyalty to the ones he called his friends and his ideal to be good and true to his original heart.