Flourish In Time Episode 17 Recap
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After the recent resolution of his cold war with Lu Miao and his continued progress with his new artificial leg, Jiang Haoyue was increasingly integrated into his class. As the school's sports meeting approached, the classes prepared for their unique entrance displays. Mr. Di tasked Jiang Haoyue with designing their class's formation change.
Jiang Haoyue conceived a "water drop" theme, where each student represented a single drop, emphasizing that only by uniting as an ocean could they achieve infinite strength and never dry up. The culmination of this display involved one student standing on a high platform and falling backward, trusting their classmates to catch them. After a class vote, Jiang Haoyue was chosen to perform this pivotal "water drop" action.
Meanwhile, Shi Che and Guoguo signed up for the 100-meter relay race, with Shi Che intending to use their victory as an opportunity to publicly confess his feelings to Lu Miao, whom he affectionately called "Meng," from the awards podium. To prepare, Shi Che sought help from Xie Ziye, borrowing her meticulously kept diary that contained rankings and evaluations of male students across the school. Upon finding his own score marked negatively, he discreetly altered it to a positive rating.
Shi Che also joined Lu Miao and others in decorating a blackboard, though his artistic contributions were met with some criticism from Lu Miao, who found his style "ugly." During a practice session for the formation, Jiang Haoyue fainted due to sunstroke. The school doctor advised him against further strenuous activity. Both Qu Wei and Mr. Di suggested that, given the circumstances, another student should perform the "water drop" action. However, Jiang Haoyue remained adamant about completing it himself.
Lu Miao quickly arrived, providing him with medicine and affirming that she knew he would not give up. She also uncovered Jiang Haoyue's deeper concern: despite his usual composed demeanor as a top student, he secretly doubted if his classmates would truly be able to catch him when he fell.
Still determined to confess, Shi Che approached Xie Ziye again, admitting his lack of poetic flair and asking her to write a love poem for him, promising a special gift pack of diary appliances in return. Xie Ziye, after some hesitation, dictated a poem on the spot. Shi Che left, greatly relieved and excited, while Xie Ziye watched him go, feeling a tinge of unspoken sadness. Later that day, after school, Lu Miao took Jiang Haoyue to a coastal walkway.
There, she personally demonstrated the backward fall, asking him to catch her. After he did, she explained that just as he had caught her, his classmates would also catch him, provided he was willing to fully entrust himself to them. On the day of the sports meeting's entrance ceremony, as Jiang Haoyue prepared for his performance, he remembered Lu Miao's recent demonstration and her words of reassurance.
Bolstered by this memory, he confidently completed the "water drop into ocean" formation, which was met with enthusiastic applause from the entire school. Later, Lu Miao showed him a video she had edited of his performance, celebrating his success. Jiang Haoyue expressed that for the first time, he truly felt a sense of belonging to Class 1, Grade 2.
Before the start of the 100-meter relay race final, Shi Che delivered a speech to the broadcast station, instructing them to read it aloud with great emotion once he won the championship and stepped onto the podium. The relay race commenced, and Shi Che, as the last runner for his class, successfully overtook his opponents, securing first place.
As he approached the podium, Jiang Haoyue, who was at the broadcast station, retrieved Shi Che's prepared speech from Qu Wei and began to read it over the loudspeakers. It soon became clear that the poem was an acrostic, with the first characters of each line forming a hidden insult. Students throughout the school began to quietly snicker as they understood the prank. Shi Che, standing on the podium, also realized Xie Ziye had tricked him.
Just as Principle Shi, Shi Che's father, stepped forward to present the award, Jiang Haoyue, quick-witted, altered the final line of the speech, changing the intended recipient of the "confession" to Principle Shi himself. This unexpected twist diffused the awkward situation into a humorous misunderstanding, and Principle Shi, touched by his son's "declaration," expressed his sincere delight. That evening, Jiang Haoyue encountered Lu Miao's father, Uncle Lu, downstairs. Uncle Lu invited him to dinner.
During their meal, Uncle Lu gently denied financially assisting Jiang Haoyue with his new artificial leg, assuring him that his own father deeply cared for him and encouraged him not to overthink things. Jiang Haoyue apologized for having been angry and complaining to Uncle Lu during a recent rainy day. Uncle Lu dismissed the apology, saying he never held grudges, especially given how much Lu Miao herself could "annoy" him.
He fondly reminisced about Jiang Haoyue's first visit to their home after getting his new leg, recalling how Lu Miao, then a young child, had been fascinated by it and wished she had one too, wondering if she had been "ignored by God" because she couldn't be a "RoboCop" like him. Uncle Lu then extended an open invitation for Jiang Haoyue to come to their home for dinner anytime. Jiang Haoyue expressed a desire for Aunt Fang's specialty ribs.
Before parting ways, Jiang Haoyue explained to Lu Miao a philosophical reflection on the universe: that atoms formed stars, and since those same atoms form our bodies, we are inherently stars ourselves. He concluded that when he looked at her, he was looking at a star, a thought Lu Miao embraced, realizing the closest star was herself.
