Drifting Away Episode 3 Recap
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Zhen Zhen's story begins with her mother using connections to get her into this prestigious high school. A new school and new classmates made Zhen Zhen think it was a fresh start, but little did she know, it was the beginning of a nightmare. A male classmate, Zhou Yue, had become friends with Zhen Zhen and offered to tutor her at home over the weekend. One day, Zhen Zhen’s mother entered her room without knocking and began scolding her.
Zhou Yue had given Zhen Zhen a keychain for her backpack, and this seemingly innocent gesture triggered unexpected emotions in Zhen Zhen’s heart. However, Zhen Zhen never expected that the keychain would spark jealousy among the other girls at school. After school, some of them cornered her in an alley and bullied her. Zhen Zhen didn’t back down; she grabbed a bottle and hit one of them on the head, causing blood to pour out.
She managed to escape their clutches. As a result, Zhen Zhen’s mother had to pay 5,000 yuan in compensation. When she returned home, she forced Zhen Zhen to kneel and began lecturing her. She even said things like, "Why do they pick on you and not others? " Zhen Zhen was frustrated—why was her own mother siding with others instead of her? At that moment, Zhou Yue arrived at the house to tutor Zhen Zhen.
When he saw her kneeling on the floor, he quickly left. Zhen Zhen had lived with her grandparents until she was ten, then moved back to live with her parents. Although she had only been with them for seven years, it felt like a lifetime. Zhen Zhen had no way to release the frustration and hurt she felt. The next day, Zhen Zhen bought an ice cream and sat by the roadside, where she met a boy who had skipped school.
Because of her mother’s behavior, Zhen Zhen had developed a lot of rebellious feelings. The two hit it off immediately. The boy took her to eat hamburgers, but a classmate saw them and spread rumors that Zhen Zhen was skipping school to go on a date. When Zhen Zhen returned home, she was once again scolded by her mother. At the dinner table, Zhen Zhen’s mother went on and on, berating Zhen Zhen and her father.
Zhen Zhen refused to go back to the tutoring class, leading to another argument. She returned to her room, listening to the sound of her mother flipping the table in anger. The next day, the girls in her class not only gossiped behind her back but also mocked Zhen Zhen to her face. Zhen Zhen’s mother wasn’t having much success at work either.
She received a call from Teacher Chang, who said he had seen Zhen Zhen with a boy at a fast-food restaurant. Zhen Zhen quickly denied it, explaining that they had only been eating hamburgers and weren’t on a date. Zhen Zhen’s mother assumed Zhou Yue was the boy in question. When she saw him, she grabbed him by the collar and warned him to stay away from her daughter, then slapped Zhen Zhen across the face.
Stunned by the slap, Zhen Zhen dazedly fled from the scene. That evening, when Zhen Zhen returned home, she discovered that her mother had sold her novel and art book. Filled with anger and resentment, with nowhere to release her emotions, Zhen Zhen tore down all her certificates on the wall and burned them. Zhen Zhen’s mother thought the house was on fire and quickly knocked on her door. Zhen Zhen said she couldn’t face going to school anymore.
Her mother, however, called her an ungrateful child, slapped her again, and then kicked her out of the house. In the middle of the night, Zhen Zhen actually left. She packed all her belongings and left home. Later that night, Zhen Zhen’s mother considered knocking on the door to apologize, but ultimately she didn’t. Unbeknownst to her, Zhen Zhen had already left Snow City, alone, and boarded a train out of town.
Deng Ligang and his group decided to relaunch their activities, and Zhen Zhen, now on her own, arrived in Licheng. She went to look for Ding Yachun but was told that Ding had gone to Shanghai for college.
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