Chinese Drama 2019

Soft Memory (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: School, Youth. Crush
• Release Date: 7 October 2019
• Origin: China
• Cdrama: 20 Episodes

Cast:

• Yi Heng as Ouyang Yusheng
• Xin Ruiqi as Sun Xiaorou
• Ni Yan as Chu Lu
• Cai Yida as Gao Yuan
• Liu Luoxi as Zhao Bin
• Jin Youmei as Xu Jingwan
• Shi Zixun as Liu Ge

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Episode 1

Sun Xiaorou’s day started after waking up from her dream of running away with Pleasant Goat from a hoard of girls who were after Pleasant Goat himself.

Who is Pleasant Goat?!!! 🙂

Pleasant Goat is a tall and handsome boy who Xiaorou and her best friends, Zhao Bin Bin and Xu Jingwan see alighting the bus at Goat Street regularly.  As they don’t know his name, they call him Pleasant Goat.

It was the start of another school year for the 18-year-old Xiaorou.  She is in high school.  As always she expected to see Pleasant Goat at the Goat Street bus stop.  But he was not there on that day.

Xiaorou was so disappointed.  But she shouldn’t have been because the Pleasant Goat was standing in front of the class being introduced as a transferee, Ouyang Yusheng.

This started many daydreams for Xiaorou.  Unfortunately, her crush on him had a debilitating effect on him.  Every time she wanted to talk to him, she was prevented from extreme hiccough.

Ouyang Yusheng was an ace student transferee from Mingtang High School.  His mother transferred him out of MIngtang to separate him from his math tutor who he developed a crush on.

Ouyang caught Xiaorou taking his photos.

Xiaorou promised him to do anything for him, which he took advantage of.  Xiaorou cut classes and went to the university where Ouyang’s tutor was teaching Physics.

As per Ouyang instruction, Xiaorou has to delay Miss Yiwen, the tutor, until he gets there.

Miss Yiwen treated Ouyang like the hormonal schoolboy that he was.

Xiaorou has to comfort the crying Ouyang, which saw her crush on him dies a natural death.

She moved on so quickly because the next day, she thought she was in love again with a new an idol transferee, Chu Lu.

Episode 2

Ouyang noticed that he had lost Xiaorou to the new ‘guy’ Chu Lu.

Xiaorou was in love but then again so was Ouyang.  He said his heart was beating so fast after they went to a kiosk where Chu Lu was part-timing.

Chu Lu is actually rather focused on getting to know his mother again.  Who he located living in a block of flats.  His mother is a singer in a club.

Xiaorou started hanging out with Chu Lu.  When she noticed that Chu Lu was sleeping on a tent in his living room, Xiaorou had asked Bin Bin and Jingwan to ask the friendly carpenter to make a proper bed for Chu Lu.

Chu Lu is Ouyang’s seatmate.  He noticed the Xiaorou’s antics make Chu Lu smile.  Is Ouyang jealous of Xiaorou or Ouyang?!!!

Ouyang found Xiaorou daydreaming while on cleaning duty.

He told Ouyang that she was not suited to Chu Lu.

Xiaorou sadly agreed, saying that Chu Lu is god while she was only human.

Ouyang said that he was also human and he was the one she was looking for.

This flustered Xiaorou, she left him immediately.

Episode 3

Ouyang took back his word as a joke.

But he was upset when he saw Xiaorou with Chu Lu at the supermarket.

He waited for her near Xiaorou to come home.  He suddenly asked her if she was dating Chu Lu.

Xiaorou replied that she doesn’t know.

Ouyang said that why not date him?

But Xiaorou was too much into Chu Lu already.

Knowing this, Ouyang took his frustration on Chu Lu and started stalking him.

He even tried to join the once-famous school band. Sky Band because Chu Lu said he wanted to join.

Chu Lu had sort of made up with his mother but when his mother got drunk, she told Chu Lu that it was because of him that her life is so messed up.

Chu Lu’s dad, who looks like a leader of Triad tried to persuade her to come home but Chu Lu threatened to jump from the rooftop if she (Chu Lu is a girl) is forced to go home.

Episode 4

Xiaorou bought another peanut butter sandwich for Chu Li.

Having found out that Chu Li was allergic to peanut, he grabbed the sandwich from Chu Li who was about to take a bite to please Xiaorou.

Xiaorou was so annoyed, she posted and pasted a crying Ouyang on the wall and bulletin board.

At first Ouyang was annoyed but Chu Li told him that for all it’s worth he looked cute in the crying photo.

Xiaorou found out about the allergy and was so apologetic to Ouyang who forgave her immediately.

Xiaorou gave Chu Lu a little jar of honey to warm Chu Lu’s cold extremities.

The next day, Chu Lu held Xiaorou’s hand in front of the class.  It was all so romantic.

Some of their classmates was jealous that Chu Lu seemed to be going out with Xiaorou.  So they started bullying Xiaorou.

Bin Bin and Jingwan saw what was happening so they fought off the bullies and they all ended up at the teacher’s office.

The bully girls told on Xiaorou that she has an immature love.

Before it got really complicated Chu Li turned up and took Xiaorou away saying that Xiaorou and friends had made her life in and out of school better.

Chu Lu then took Xiaorou for a little heart to heart when he told her that he knows Xiaorou likes him and he like Xiaorou as well but it can never that of a boy and a girl sort of thing.

What Chu Lu said he wanted was a strong friendship.  A BFF kind of think.

Xiaorou was too upset to listen further.

Chu Lu was just about to confess that he was actually a girl.

Xiaorou was very upset.

Chu Lu went to see Xiaorou that evening to apologise for leading her on.  Chu Lu said that all he could offer was a strong friendship which he would appreciate.

And if Xiaorou cannot be friends anymore, Chu Lu will leave Mingtan High School.

Xiaorou was said for Chu Lu not to leave school, that she was willing to be just firm friends.

And they become just friends.

The Sky Band is gathering pace.  It went of an overnight flash mob tour.

The three girls, Xiaorou, Bin Bin and Jingwan shared a room.

The ‘boys’ shared one as well.

Chu Li was trying to adjust a picture on the wall when she started falling.  She was caught by Ouyang who fell on top of her on the bed.

After a minute of staring at one another, Ouyang became catatonic with shock.  He was attracted to a boy.

Chu Li tried to make him more alert but Ouyang run out and called an already sleeping Xiaorou to come out.

A half-asleep Xiaorou asked him what he wanted.

He reached for her hand and waited for his heart to beat faster the way it did with Chu Li.

Episode 5

Ouyang Yusheng was suddenly in a panic.

He started questioning his sexuality.  He could not be attracted to boys, could he?

To find out, he dragged Xiaorou out in the middle of the night to go out walking with him.  He held her hand to see whether she could make his heart beat faster.

But he said she doesn’t do anything for him.

The poor girl was so sleepy, made more drowsy by his cataloging all his dealings with girl starting from when he was three years old.

He said he originally had problems with girls until he began receiving too many love letters.  He began to hate girls.  Then he met Miss Yiwen and fell in love with her.

But as Xiaorou had witnessed, Miss Yiwen embarrassed and treated Yusheng like a boy.  Yusheng reckoned that was what made him homosexual. LOL

Yusheng was having a breakdown.  He would not let anyone touch, especially Chu Lu.  He took a leave from school to go home.  If left with him he would resorted to being homeschooled.

Anyway, he went back to school but started blanking Chu Lu at every turn, he even asked the teacher if he could change seats (so he no longer sit next to Chu Lu)

To make Chu Lu not available, he encouraged Xiaorou to pursue Chu Lu herself.  I must say Chu Lu and Xiaorou have sizzling chemistry as a couple.

The headteacher heard bout Chu Lu and Xiaorou.  The head-teacher happened to be Chu Lu’s aunt.  She told Chu Lu that she’s a girl, so be careful.

Chu Lu used to be a girly girl until she met a musician.

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Yucheng finally found out that Chu Lu is a girl.

Episode 9

Xiaorou decided to have a romantic surrender of her feelings for Chu Lu so she invited Chulu to the mountain to say that she was finally giving up on Chulu, although she wanted Chulu to know that her feelings for him really existed but it is going to be gone just like the luminous ball she handed to Chu Lu.  It was iridescent but it will fade eventually.

Chu Lu felt really guilty.  Somehow she does not want to disappoint Xiaorou by telling her outright that she was a girl as well.  She told Xiaorou that she must come to see Sky Band doing a concert in Beixian the next day.  All will be revealed why she cannot really reciprocate Xiaorou’s feelings for her.

Xiarou did go to the concert and was shocked to see Chu Lu in a dress.

But the real shocker was the earthquake that interrupted the concert.

The concert hall was turned into rubble.

Yisheng dug himself out of the rubble and worriedly shouted for Xiaorou.  Aww!  It was Xiaorou he thought first.

Luckily for him, Xiaorou was only a few meters away from him and was under shallow confinement.

After piggybacking Xiaorou into safety, he went back to look for Chulu and the rest of the band.

Episode 10

Poor Chu Lu was trapped as she was pierced in the chest. But in the end, she was rescued.

As soon as Gao Yuan heard that Chu Lu was in an earthquake, he left the taping of his new song just to be with Chu Lu.

Sadly Mina did not make it as there was an aftershock and she was buried to her death.

Episode 11

Gao Yuan begged Chu Lu to go back.

Yisheng was at first shocked when Chu Lu agreed with Gao Yuan.

Chu Lu explained that she harbors a pang of guilt about Xiaorou.  Her leaving will be better and make Xiaorou forget her sooner.  Chu Lu also said that she wanted to leave her biological family who never stopped fighting and making her do what she did not want to do.  She would also like to leave the place because of the sad demise of Mina.

Yusheng’s priority was Xiaorou.  He told her that Chu Lu is gone. He did everything to lessen her grief and PTSD from the earthquake.

After a while, he asked if he they can start again but Xiaorou turned him down.

A year later…

Both Yusheng and Xiaorou are in university in Beijing.  Not the same university.

Xiaorou is now ready for a relationship but Yusheng was this time the one who is reluctant.

He had a drawerful of love letters from girls in his school but he did not even bother to open a single one.

Xiaorou, however, is full of embarrassing experience that he made Yusheng laughed so hard during their regular monthly get together.

One day, Yusheng was late going to school when he had the familiar voice of Chu Lu singing Sky Band anthem.

Episode 12

Yusheng found Chu Lu.

Meanwhile, Xiaorou became an intern at Stars where Gao Yuan was a start client.

Xiaorou found him and said how sad she was about Chu Lu.  She then learned that Chu Lu did not die and she was given an address where Chu Lu works.

She excitedly went to see Chu Lu with a lovely boxed cake.

When she got there she found that Chu Lu was intimately and happily laughing with Yisheng.

In her shock, she dropped her cake and left.

Episode 13

Chu Lu and Gao Yuan related their story post earthquake.

Chu Lu was talking to Yusheng about going with Gao Yuan and initially thinking of being in the band with Gao Yuan under Starfish Entertainment agency.

It was going well at first and the band had decided that she will be the lead singer and Gao Yuan will be the lead guitarist.

It would have been a happy ending except that the Starfish management said that hiding Gao Yuan as the guitarist will upset a lot of his fans.  Platinum X is about Gao Yuan.

The manager had a secret meeting with Chu Lu and told her about it and that her becoming the lead for Platinum X might make the now famous band fold.  The manager said to Chu Lu that he would find her own and better management.

So Chu Lu decided to leave Gao Yuan again and told him not to see her again.

Gao Yuan could not understand it as he told Xiaorou who he went drinking with.  He told her that she might be Chu Lu’s number one fan but he, Gao Yuan loves Chu Lu the most.

Xiaorou found out from Gao Yuan that Yusheng knew all along that Chu Lu wasn’t dead.

Episode 14

Yusheng and Chu Lu were waiting for Xiaorou to come home.

Xiaorou was drunk and went mental upon seeing Yusheng and then Chu Lu.

She accused them of betraying her and their friendship.  They never let on that Chu Lu was indeed alive.  Yusheng knew how much she was grieving for Chu Lu and yet he did not say anything.

She told them that she never wanted to see either of them ever again.

Chu Lu heard from her agent that the agency she just signed in had been declared bankrupt.  She was also told to leave her apartment provided by the agency immediately.

She was walking the street with her suitcase when she got a call from Xiarou, who deduced that Chu Lu had nowhere to live right now.

Xiaorou insisted that Chu Lu stays with her and they had made up.

Chu Lu said that she missed Xiaorou as she is her best, best, best friend.  She said that she was all alone most of her life and had been sad and lonely.  When she met Xiaorou was the first time she felt happy. awww

Episode 15

Episode 16

Episode 17 – 18

Gao Yuan was a desperate man.  He had lost his hearing.  Chu Lu would not want anymore to do with him.

He needed to talk with someone who will understand his situation and that was Xiaorou, who happens to be outside of the house throwing a frame photographed of her and Yusheng.

Without a purse or her mobile phone, she went with Gao Yuan to Tianjian.

Episode 19

Yusheng told Xiaorou that Chu Lu had dumped him.

Episode 20

Several months later, Yusheng was in an internship conference where they were asked to give permission and authorisation that their internship would not make the hospital liable for injuries and even death in these dangerous countries.

Yusheng was at the top of his class and would like to volunteer especially after his experience with the earthquake but then Xiaorou suddenly came to his mind and he could not make a decision without talking to her first so he flew from Beijing to Chengdu just to see and speak to Xiaorou.

He confessed to he and saying that he had overlooked her existence especially when Chu Lu reappeared but he realised that she was always been in his heart.  Without her, he might as well be dead.

Meanwhile, Chu Lu was told to fly to Narita, Japan immediately regarding Gao Yuan.

News then of Chu Lu’s disappearance in Japan reached Xiaorou and Yusheng.  They also heard that Gao Han disappeared.

A few years later, it was Yusheng and Xiaorou’s wedding.

Who should appear but a happy Chu Lu.

The End