The story begins thirteen years ago at ......
At the age of eighteen, the brilliant and talented ballet dancer Tang Yongxi won the first prize in an open audition and gained admission to the Royal Academy of Ballet, which is not only a rare honor for Chinese, but also a brand new starting point for Yongxi. Because Wang Ling had promised him that if he could go to England, she would be willing to bear the cross of abandoning her family and her daughter and go to England with him.
On the eve of his departure, Yongxi urges Wang Ling to attend the graduation performance of Ke Mei's kindergarten because he feels sorry for his daughter Ke Mei. But this was not to be. Wang Ling had a car accident, Ke Mei lost her mother, and Yong Xi was left to grieve for his daughter, and never came back.
Relatively unhappy on the other side, in a small town, two ordinary but happy children grow up normally.
Seo Che, who came from a modest, well-off and mediocre family, was only eight years old at the time.
Seo Che, a thin, pretty, peace-loving, and somewhat Q-like personality, has always had a "silent acceptance" attitude towards the humiliation and bullying he has suffered from his male classmates since kindergarten. He always thought: "As long as you don't talk back, don't fight back, and don't respond, one day, my classmates will think that bullying is a boring thing, and as long as no one wants to pay attention to me, naturally, I won't be bullied anymore!
It wasn't until the spring of this year that the town of Wutong, which had always been quiet and conservative, began to bustle with activity when a family named He moved into the town.
He Xiaofei was only six years old when his mother died and he followed his father, Yinggui, out of his heartbreaking place and moved into Wutong Town. In a chance incident, he rescued Xu Che, who was being bullied again, and the two of them became buddies, talking about everything and being like childhood friends.
Xiaofei's family runs a sushi restaurant, and her father is very optimistic, even to the point of being overly optimistic! He trusts his friends, even those he hasn't known for a few days (including those who have only come to the restaurant a few times)...as long as they are in trouble and ask for a loan, he will never say "no". This advantage solved his friends' difficulties but created a burden for the Li family. Because more people borrowed money than paid it back, Satisfaction Sushi always had more debt than income.
A few years down the road, although Xiaofei has never noticed, but Xu Che has unknowingly become a sharp, handsome and upright soccer player on the sports field, and because of the excellent performance, but also as the country's future soccer reserve players, was guaranteed to go straight to the "Glorious University," Department of Physical Education, and in the summer of this year after the summer vacation, and classmates, but also a good friend and teammate Fan Guangwen, Lu Xiaobai, will become a third year of the "Glorious University" with "After this summer's vacation, he will become a third-year student of Glorious University with his classmates, friends and teammates Fan Guangwen and Lu Xiaobai.
And Xiao Fei, who was praised by Xu Che as a lucky dog, will also be lucky enough to become a first-year student in the dance department of "Glorious University" in the fall of this year, and become Xu Che's schoolmate.
In the heart of the lonely and indifferent Fan Guangwen, Xu Che holds a very special place. Instead of a "瑜亮情节" that arises from her comparable strength, Xu Che is the only friend that Fan Guangwen, who has kept her heart tightly closed, has ever accepted from the bottom of her heart since she was a child!
Originally, the melancholy and mysterious Fan Guangwen grew up in the shadow of his older brother, Tang Yongxi, who had a reputation as a "ballet genius," and because his mother was an only child, Fan Guangwen became the only child with a different surname in the Tang family in order to help his mother's family carry on the family name.
This situation not only made Fan Guangwen suffer from discrimination and harassment from his classmates during his schooling, but even if someone expressed warmth or goodwill towards him, it was only to concur with the fact that he had a high-profile genius brother, and no one ever wanted to be friends with him purely because he was Fan Guangwen, just Fan Guangwen!
Watching his father, mother, and all the visible guests coming and going in and out of the house, pampering and caring for Tang Yongxi, compared to his own so neglected and cared for, Fan Guangwen became more and more withdrawn, harder to get along with, and more and more closed off to himself. (In an accidental situation of venting out his emotions, Fan found that soccer is a very good tool to vent his anger, and then he kicked it, and then he was in the middle of a soccer game. (In a fortuitous situation, Fan discovers that soccer is a good tool for venting his anger, and who knows, he even made the varsity team during his junior high school years); he even develops a stronger and stronger hatred for Tang Yongxi, until Tang finally leaves Taiwan at the age of seventeen for further studies in England, and only then did all the emotions cool down temporarily, and Fan Guangwen was able to get a little bit more focused attention from both his father and mother. But as a result, in order to prove the value of his existence, Fan Guangwen has never mentioned his family background since then (and no one knows about his brotherly relationship with Tang Yongxi), and is determined to fight for himself by making it his only goal to become the first seeded player of the national soccer team!
So, when everyone is on the defensive with a hedgehog-like Fan Guangwen, adopting the attitude of being far away from him, which he has been used to since he was a child, or ostracizing him, only Xu Che, more than once, has been kind and purposeless in his efforts to defend, care for, and pay for him. As a result, although Fan Guangwen had several conflicts with other players, which almost led to fights, he gradually reduced the friction under the mediation of Xu Che, and slowly accepted the concept of team, as well as the sense of identity, centripetal force, and loyalty to the team and his teammates.
And at some point, Lu Xiaobai, who is a standard licorice character with fewer tendons, always unknowingly strings between the two, and is also as bold as a label, sticking to Xu Che and Fan Guangwen, and thus accomplishing the "Three Musketeers" of soccer that the classmates say is like a shadow of the shadow of the three Musketeers.
However, the calm campus life, but in the month shortly before the start of the school year, produced a great change!
'Tang Yongxi, a renowned Chinese dancer who has been away from Taiwan for thirteen years, will be returning to China to visit his family and will be invited to be a special visiting professor at Glorious University', a few big words, immediately splashed all over the headlines of the newspapers in the streets.
The news was a happy event for most people, but for Fan Guangwen, it was a heavy nightmare. For Guangwen, the fact that Yongxi didn't come back to mourn his mother's death half a year ago was extremely unforgivable, because Guangwen knew how much his parents cherished and expected his brother, but before the old man passed away, he was only accompanied by this son whom they didn't value, which Guangwen found ironic and unbearable, and decided at that moment to disown his brother forever!
So before Yongxi came back, Guangwen left the check that Yongxi had sent back after his mother's death in the past six months, and Guangwen left the house!
Tang Yongxi, who was unaware of the sibling rivalry, took a leave of absence from the hospital and embarked on his journey home with a light bag. There was a reason why Yongxi couldn't return home to see his mother for the last time. Half a year ago, Yongxi accidentally found out that he was suffering from ankylosing spondylitis, and then went through a series of tests and treatments, which caused him to miss the notice from Guangwen. Although the disease is not terminal, it is undoubtedly a death sentence for a dancer. As a result of the deterioration of spinal stiffness, the patient will become the so-called "bamboo pole man", unable to perform strenuous exercise, let alone dance!
After the shock, Yongxi accepts his condition, but a clearer idea forms in his mind. He escapes from his love for Wang Ling, which he was forced to break off back then, and from the pain of Wang Ling's death, and transports his emotions to dance. He decides to fulfill his promise to Wang Ling before his dancing life ends, and to choreograph a touching dance to symbolize their love so that they can fly free!
So Yongxi decides to take up the invitation from Mr. Luo Yunkai, the head of the dance department at the Glorious University, and also Tang Yongxi's teacher for many years. On the one hand, he will write the dance drama, which is still in its dream stage, and on the other hand, he will choose the talents to help him complete the drama based on the students in the dance industry in China.
After the news of Tang Yongxi's imminent return to China and his appointment as a special visiting professor at Glorious University came to light, Shen Kemei, who seems to have been born for Tang Yongxi in this life, decided to withdraw her enrollment in the New York Ballet Academy, which is the coveted place of all ballet dancers, and became a student of Glorious University.
Shen began studying ballet at the age of three, and her mother, Wang Ling, is a respected dance critic in the ballet world. Not only has she been a close friend of Prof. Luo Yunkai for many years, but she was also the driving force behind Tang Yongxi's success in gaining admission to the Royal Academy.
Ke Mei, a dancer since she was a pupil, has a great attachment to her mother and hopes to be like her someday, but Wang Ling is killed in a car accident on her way to her kindergarten performance!
Wang Ling's death was like the end of the world for Ke Mei and her father, who loved her dearly! For a long time, Ke Mei's father locked himself up in his room every day, disheveled and cranky, not eating, not drinking, and not seeing visitors! What's even more terrible is that Shixuan blamed his daughter for Wang Ling's death and has been cold and uncaring towards her ever since!
Ke Mei, who has lost her mother and has no father to comfort her, is only five years old when she starts practicing ballet, which is the only way for her to miss her mother.
Ke Mei remembered that when her mother was alive, she always praised Tang Yongxi's intelligence and excellence, and said that if one day she and Yongxi could **** dance on the world's stage, it would be such a wonderful thing!
So, in her young mind, she decided that before she turned twenty, she wanted to become a dance partner who could match Tang Yongxi's strength, so that she could help her mother fulfill her unfulfilled dream: "Shen Kemei wants to dance all over the world with Tang Yongxi," as the only goal she has ever set for herself in this life.
In contrast to Shen Kemei, who carries such a heavy burden of ballet, Xiaofei, who enters the world of flamenco dance simply because she loves to dance, is obviously too free and happy.
On a chance encounter, Tang Yongxi was shocked by Xiaofei's fresh, innocent and passionate dance!
So when the greenhouse Tang Yongxi, sandwiched between Shen Kemei, who is as noble as a white lotus flower, and He Xiaofei, who is as wild as a mountaintop rose, an unavoidable storm unfolds!
Because of his crazy obsession with Tang Yongxi, because of his very different attitudes towards dance, and because of his subjective definition of mainstream and non-mainstream dance, Xiaofei is inexplicably caught up with Kemei!
What's more, Xu Che is surprised to see Shen Kemei as a celestial being, and he dashes off on his own to pursue her like a madwoman, but he also drags Xiaofei along as his military advisor.
When Fan Guangwen meets Kamei for the first time, an unpleasant confrontation erupts. In fact, the two people who are equally lonely and proud, the more similar they are, the easier it is for them to go head-to-head. He knew that his friend Xu Che's feelings for Ke Mei were thick, and he always couldn't help but fake Xiao Fei's hand, who didn't know what was going on, to help Xu Che reverse his moves, causing Xu Che to have a face full of beanstalks and make a lot of faces. The first time I saw this, I thought it would be a good idea for me to go back to my old school," he said!
Yongxi's admiration for Xiaofei is obvious, but she has never recognized Kemei's dance. Kemei, in order to understand Yongxi's idea of adding the emotion of love to the dance, decides to find Xu Che as a practice subject for her love.
Watching Xu Che, who has been under his own protection since he was a child, go through fire to pursue Shen Ke Mei, he was so hurt and bruised that Xiaofei, who has always been ignorant of the feelings of men and women, gradually experienced a chemical change in his heart, and gradually realized that he fell in love with his childhood friend. Xiao Fei had to endure the sadness in his heart, and put on a bright smile, and set up a match between Ke Mei and Xu Che.
Yong Xi believes that Xiaofei has the potential to be a top-notch dancer, whether it is his innocent character, passion for learning, endurance for hard work, or his sensitivity to music and dance skills.
The emotional setbacks and pains have changed Xiaofei's dance, which was originally too simple, into a more emotional and introspective flavor, which is similar to the change in Yongxi's performance. Yongxi thought she was the best person to interpret this dance code!
And through Xiaofei's dance, Yongxi finds the same emotion and joy that made her crazy about ballet in the first place! As a result, many of Yongxi's frustrations, which he could not share with others, were aired out in front of Xiaofei, and he naturally became a faithful listener to Xiaofei's heartfelt wishes.
When Yong Xi's illness recurs, the need for a new dance drama becomes urgent. Yong Xi announces the requirements for the dance drama, but Kamei is not allowed to take part in it. Ke Mei realizes that her self-righteous emotional exercises may have hurt Xu Che's feelings, which is Yong Xi's punishment for playing with her emotions.
But Yong Xi, who misses Wang Ling because of her resemblance to her, unknowingly uses Kamei as an outlet for her feelings. In the meantime, Yongxi learns that Kemei has been suffering from her father's anger and resentment because of her affair with her mother, and that she has been growing up alone without a father's love, which Yongxi blames herself for.
Yong Xi tries to restrain his own emotions and tries to help Ke Mei to step out of herself. In the midst of strict demands and unknowing expressions of affection, Yongxi's heart is in a tormented state of conflict, as can be imagined!
Ke Mei confesses that she drew a line with Xu Che in order to be able to participate in the draft, and Xu Che then falls out of love. Guang Wen encourages Xiaofei to fight for his love with his usual spirit of fearlessness. Xiaofei decides to confess to Xu Che after the election. But Xu Che refuses, he still only has Ke Mei in his heart. Xiao Fei can only laugh and say that everything is just a joke, and she would rather continue to help Xu Che fight for what he wants to fight for: because Xu Che's happiness is her happiness, and as long as one of the two of them is happy, that's all that matters.
When Guang Wen learns of Yong Xi's illness, his years of brotherly love turn into forgiveness, only to realize that Ke Mei's infatuation with his brother Yong Xi is growing. He also realizes that the eternal lover in Yongxi's heart is Ke Mei's mother. He can't help but sympathize with Ke Mei, but for the sake of Ke Mei's well-being, he obstructs Ke Mei's emotions in every possible way, and on the surface, he is extremely at odds with Ke Mei.
In order to divert her attention from Xu Che, and because she doesn't want to see Xu Che glowing with another girl, Xiaofei puts all her energy into the flamenco dance. As the dance posture changes, reflecting the inner emotional changes of Xiaofei who is trapped by her love, Xiaofei's dance becomes more and more dazzling and charming. At this time, during a performance at a restaurant, Xiao Fei is discovered by a Spanish dance scout, who invites Xiao Fei to go to Spain for further training.
Xiaofei is happy but hesitant, saying she needs to think about it. The reason why Xiaofei is hesitant is that she wants to stay in a place where she can see Xu Che, even if that is not a happy place.
Seo Che is shocked to find Kamei's portrait in Guang Wen's sketchbook. He mistakenly thinks that the person Kamei is talking about is Guang Wen and has a big fight with Guang Wen. Although Guang Wen knows that Ke Mei is in love with her brother Yong Xi, he has no defense. The best friends have a misunderstanding!
When the national soccer team is being recruited, Xiaobai is worried that he won't be able to pass the test, so he secretly uses a banned substance, which he accidentally puts in Guangwen's locker, and the coach finds out. The coach finds out that Guangwen has been misunderstood, but because of his image, the coach decides that Guangwen has violated the rules, and Guangwen doesn't try to defend himself, while Xu Che, who knows the truth, doesn't come out to explain the truth because of his misunderstanding with Guangwen and because of Xiaobai's plea.
Guang Wen was finally expelled from school because of this incident!
After the audition, Yong Xi begins to train the students, including Ke Mei Xiao Fei, in a rigorous program. However, the training goes beyond traditional methods and Kamei is frustrated repeatedly. The newest addition to the program is the newest addition to the program, the newest addition to the program, the newest addition to the program! In a serious mistake, Yongxi kicks Ke Mei out of the dance troupe, and Ke Mei suffers an unprecedented depression!
Ke Mei is frustrated and at a loss for words when she meets Guang Wen, who wants to travel to the south of the country, and the two of them board a train for a special journey.
During the journey, Guangwen gets to know Kamei better and feels sympathetic towards her. He secretly decides to help Kamei fulfill her wish of creating a dream stage of her dreams, and Kamei also determines her own feelings and decides to be brave enough to face Yongxi and confess her love for him.
The two of them return from their journey as if they have been cleansed, and each of them finds a goal to work towards. Guang Wen has joined a major construction company, starting as a draftsman, and he wants to find a way out for his dream. The company is owned by Shi Xuan, who quickly recognizes Guang Wen for his courage and creativity, but Shi Xuan doesn't know that Guang Wen is Yong Xi's younger brother.
Yong Xi's feelings for Ke Mei are also complicated.
In Ke Mei, Yong Xi sees the shadow of his first love, Wang Ling, and the relationship with Wang Ling represents not only a teenager's fervent love, but also the peak of his vitality, creativity, and expressiveness! He could almost feel the heat of his dancing was gradually, gradually cooling with Wang Ling's passing.
He could see that his feelings for Ke Mei were a shadow of his past, but his intense love for Ke Mei was like walking on the edge of danger, afraid that he might fall to pieces if he wasn't careful. It was only in the sense that Kagome's requirements in dance achievement were stricter than any student required, as if she had taken Wang Ling's place.
So when Ke Mei puts aside her pride and kneels in front of him to ask to be allowed to return to the dance troupe, Yong Xi struggles with the pain. He was happy to see the color of emotion in Ke Mei's eyes, but at the same time, he didn't dare to accept the fact that the object of this love was himself, and Yong Xi chose to tell the brutal truth: he had always loved her mother, Wang Ling!
Ke Mei collapsed, the original enemy he could not defeat was his mother's lofty position in his heart, and his saintly mother was actually seduced by a man younger than himself, and talked about a period of so-called "forgotten years of love". She instantly understands where her father's love-hate relationship with her mother came from, and finds a reason for his explosive temper over the years.
Ke Mei doesn't eat, drink, go out or talk. She was like a puppet that had lost its soul, lying on her bed all day, staring out the window. Even when her father finally stepped into her room and showed a hint of concern, it no longer awakened her soul.
"So mother and him were that way...so they were that way! So...what am I...in his eyes?" It was the same question, the same image, that hovered in her bitter heart.
In the dimly lit room, she felt like she was six years old again, brought to the rehearsal hall by her mother and falling asleep from sleepiness.
In the darkness, she saw her mother and Yongxi smiling at each other, and Yongxi raised his right hand to his lips, looking tenderly at her mother.
After a brief moment of silence, her mother also raised her right hand and placed it in front of her lips.
At the time, she thought it was a sign of care and concern that Yong Xi might wake her.
Now she realized that it was a secret ballet couple's way of communicating their love with mime.
In the "mime technique" unique to ballet, such a gesture represents... "May I kiss you?"
"No...how can you...?" She woke up to a raspy voice.
Then she realized it was her own crying.
Simultaneously, Xiaofei accompanied the lovelorn Xu Che. The two of them seemed to have returned to the carefree, childhood sweetheart days of the past, but Xiaofei knew very well that Xu Che's smile could never be as bright as the sunshine again. Especially when he knew that Ke Mei had suffered a setback, Xu Che dropped everything to show how much he cared, and Xiaofei knew that Ke Mei's importance in Xu Che's heart had not changed!
At this time, the sushi store is in crisis, the whole shopping street was bought by a large consortium, and only Yinggui's sushi store is still holding up, but the sushi store's financial situation can't hold up, so Xiaofei and Xu Che shoulder the heavy responsibility of reviving the sushi store, and the two of them even carry sushi to the campus to peddle it, or to mobilize to participate in the protest against the large consortium, just to save the shopping street that the two of them grew up in together.
Ke Mei's complacency and Xiaofei's inability to cope with the situation have left Yong Xi's new dance drama as if it has lost two of its key players. Yongxi's heartache and emotional impact aggravate his condition and he finally collapses, revealing Yongxi's illness.
Ke Mei and Xiao Fei return to Yong Xi's side, and realize that Yong Xi is looking at dance with his life and health in mind, and that he gives up too easily because of other setbacks!
Ke Mei finds a letter from her mother behind an enlarged photo of her mother. The letter is written in the tone of treating Ke Mei as a woman, and asking her to look at her love for Yong Xi outside of her role as a daughter. Kamei finally lets go of the knot in her heart and matures to forgive her mother and Yongxi, and intends to actively get her father to let go of his hatred and resolve his grudge as well.
At this point, Xiao Fei learns that the builder responsible for the reconstruction of the shopping street is Shixuan's company, and the misunderstanding between Xiao Fei and Ke Mei deepens. Kamei has to try to get her father to give up the acquisition plan, but Shixuan puts Guangwen in charge of the project. During the demolition process, the three friends become antagonistic to each other. When Guangwen ruthlessly removes the first door panel, their friendship is put to a severe test.
It turns out that Kwong Man has been asked by Ying Kwai to sell the store to Sai Hin because Ying Kwai will die soon and he has to leave something to Xiaofei. ......
All of us know about Yong Xi's illness, and for the sake of his well-being, we all force him to go back to the UK to have a proper treatment, and promise that we will complete the dance drama well, and wait for Yong Xi to come back.
The group forced Yong Xi to return to England for proper treatment and promised that they would finish the show properly and wait for Yong Xi to return to see the final product!
With tears in his eyes, Yong Xi agrees. After so many trials and tribulations, these children have regained their confidence and he believes that they can finish the show, so he makes an appointment to come back and Yong Xi leaves to return to the UK!
With Yong Xi away from the dance troupe, Xiaofei, as acting leader, has to take responsibility, but the blows belonging to Xiaofei are only now coming one after the other, as Ying Gui dies of a serious illness, the sushi restaurant is sold, and although there is a fortune to be made, there is no home to go back to!
Ke Mei has managed to regain her father's love and care and regained her dancing shoes, but at this moment, due to Guang Wen's negligence in designing the stage, she fell off the stage and went deaf. How can Ke Mei catch the rhythm of the music and continue to dance without being able to hear the music?......
Guang Wen encourages Ke Mei, but amidst the quarrels and curses between the two men, they understand the similarities between them. But as they fight and yell at each other, he realizes the similarities between the two and also discovers his feelings for Ke Mei. He is caught between Xu Che, who loves her, and Yong Xi, who is loved, so how should he face Ke Mei?
Seo Che silently watches Xiaofei's dedication, and realizes that "good brothers" shouldn't be just that. Does he have to wait until Xiaofei's heart dies and he decides to stay away from everything before he realizes how important Xiaofei is to him?
There are too many setbacks and difficulties to keep this dance drama going. Can they fulfill their promise to Yongxi as the six-month period they have agreed to with him is coming to an end?
When Yong Xi returns to China, everyone waits for him at the airport, but he doesn't show up. Will this dance, which is a collection of everyone's love and dreams, ever be presented to the world?
Is this dance the end or the beginning?
Their story is just beginning.