Our Generation Episode 12 Recap
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Du Shang's mother’s skewer stall was still merged with Qin Yeyun’s father’s convenience store. Shuangyan wanted to pay rent, but Old Qin refused. Du Shang and Qin Yeyun helped tidy up the place. Qin Yeyun really liked the dishes Shuangyan made, but they couldn’t have dinner together that night because they had planned to go to the beach to set off fireworks. Unexpectedly, Du Shang’s father came to the store to buy cigarettes.
Du Shang had been beaten by his father since childhood—his father had a terrible temper. Just because the meat cooked by his mother wasn’t done properly, he started hitting and kicking her. Now that he was back, Qin Yeyun and the others were very worried about Du Shang. So they decided to cancel the fireworks plan for the time being and go to Du Shang’s house to check on him.
As soon as they arrived, they heard the sound of dishes breaking. They quickly knocked on the door and called out for Du Shang, but it was Old Du who opened the door. Du Shang was cooking with his father. Since nothing seemed wrong, they decided to leave. Jiang Qiaoxi told Du Shang to have a good meal with his family. There would be other chances to set off fireworks, and he had already prepared gifts for everyone.
The next day, Jiang Qiaoxi rode bikes to school with everyone and gave each of them a red scarf. Only Yingtao’s scarf had a little white bunny on it. Although the scarves looked a bit ugly, they were hand-knitted by Jiang Qiaoxi, so everyone wore them anyway. When they got to school, during lunch in the cafeteria, Aunt Liang stormed in angrily calling for Jiang Qiaoxi.
It turned out that he had made the decision on his own not to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympiad. Jiang Qiaoxi told Yingtao that everything would be over soon, then left with his mother. Yingtao didn’t understand what he meant, but she stood up with the others, all wearing their scarves, and watched him go. Jiang Qiaoxi went to participate in the math Olympiad, but he had a fever that day.
He was worried that taking medicine would make him dizzy and affect his performance, so he toughed it out and almost fell asleep during the test. However, even with a high fever, he still performed perfectly and got a full score, winning the championship as he had hoped. This meant he now had the opportunity to be directly admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University.
Jiang Qiaoxi finally breathed a sigh of relief—he had fulfilled his goal, or rather, his mother’s goal. When he got home, he took out all his study materials and told his mother she could tear them up however she wanted, because he had already won the championship, and from now on he would be himself again. His words angered his mother, and she slapped him. Jiang Zheng rushed home just in time to witness the scene.
The family started arguing again, and neighbors gathered outside watching. Everyone thought Jiang Qiaoxi was being immature, daring to give up the chance to be admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University. Jiang Zheng called Yingtao’s father, and their whole family hurried to Jiang Qiaoxi’s home. Yingtao saw through the crack in the door that Jiang Qiaoxi was about to hurt himself with a fruit knife and stopped him in time. Yingtao took Jiang Qiaoxi home for hot pot.
She brought him into the bedroom, where he accidentally saw her diary. It turned out that during the days he had been away from Qunshan, Yingtao had been missing him every single day. Yingtao came in carrying something and saw Jiang Qiaoxi’s tear-stained face. She handed him a tissue. She knew he had seen her diary, but she wasn’t angry.
