The Korean drama "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" is set against the background of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It tells the story of fencer Na Hee-do (played by Kim Tae-ri) and Baek Yi-chen (played by Nam Joo-hyuk), who dropped out of school due to family bankruptcy an

The Korean drama "Twenty-Five, Twenty-One" is based on the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. It tells the story of fencer Na Hee-do (played by Kim Tae-ri) and Baek Yi-chen (played by Nam Joo-hyuk) who dropped out of school due to family bankruptcy and became a journalist. , the story of two people meeting and becoming each other’s support.

In this article, let’s talk about Bai Yichen first. He is the only one of the five main characters who reached adulthood (21 years old) in the first episode. Before the Asian financial crisis, he was a kid from a rich family that everyone envied. Not only did he have a good family background, he was also handsome. He had been a man of the hour on campus since high school. A financial crisis destroyed his father's career and interrupted Bai Yichen's smooth sailing. However, this is the beginning of the story of his youth with Luo Xidu.

Bai Yichen is sometimes full of confidence and arrogance. When he is late for delivering the newspaper for the first time, he can openly say to the owner of the house: "Everyone has a first time. Today is my first time. My lack of proficiency is just It will last to this day. " But Bai Yichen is also a person who is prone to over-empathy. When the creditor came to the door and cried about his miserable life, he actually promised to him that he would never live a happy life again.

When Luo Xidu asked him: "Do you want to go back to the past?" "What do you miss most?", what Bai Yichen thought of was not the glory and wealth of the past, but the time when he could worry about trivial matters: "I just miss the worries at that time. . . . Worry about too much homework, worry about the seniors in the club being too scary, worry about making mistakes on the school anniversary stage, worry about the girl I like not liking me..."

The reason why Bai Yichen likes Xidu is because he is at the peak of his life. In the dark time, the girl Hedo, who has the dreams, courage, and "age privileges" that he has lost, lights up his hope with her passionate desire for life and the future.

When Xidu asked Yi Chen: "Why are you cheering for me? Because of what?" Yi Chen answered her this way. The friendship between Bai Yichen and Luo Xidu is based on mutual trust and mutual support. After walking for a long time, Luo Xidu may not understand Yi Chen's consistent intentions from beginning to end, but all discerning viewers can understand that when Bai Yichen begins to unconditionally When supporting Rohit, his heart was not as simple as supporting the fencer.

Unfortunately, Yi Chen’s love has always been at the wrong time.. When the two met, he was already an adult and could not date the underage Hido, and at this moment Hido did not understand what love was like. As a sports reporter, he was bound by the principle of "not far away, not close". When Xidu realized the emotional changes, Bai Yichen had been trapped in the dilemma between workplace and emotion for a long time.

What's more, reality has always blocked Bai Yichen's path forward. Behind every pass of his life is a major event that cannot be resisted alone and breaks the times. Whether it was the Asian financial turmoil or the September 11th terrorist attacks, he was always a victim under the great wheel of the times. The former destroyed his family, university life, and distant space dreams; the latter severed his relationship with Hildo. A precarious love.

And Yi Chen is not as courageous as Hedo. He has been on the run, from hiding in the countryside with his younger brother, evading after Hedo confessed, to crying alone in the culvert after reporting Yu Lin, and enduring the severe aftermath of the 911 incident. Trauma, his emotions have always been digested alone - in order to protect the promise he made with Hido to "be happy when we are together", he would rather face the pain alone. But for Hido, they can't just be happy together, they also have to be sad and miserable together.

Yi Chen's pillar of support is the fearless girl Hedo, but as Hedo grows older and mentally, the two of them are bound to face changes in their values. Yi Chen has long been forced to grow up, but he cannot ask Hedo to Time stops moving forward and is forever innocent.

In the last episode, it seemed that Hedo made the request to break up first. I think Bai Yichen's application to be sent to New York was the signal of separation to her, and Heido's response was to take the wrong suitcase like a stranger. Return to the airport. At this point, the reason why Bai Yichen was angry was because he realized deeply that as a lover, Xidu couldn't even realize his simple desire to be with his boyfriend.

He could no longer support him unconditionally. The ending of Xidu and Yichen has been finalized from the first episode. The screenwriter even gave the audience 16 episodes to prepare themselves mentally. We just followed Mincai’s gaze and traced why the two could not be together. Answers together. The best explanation of the relationship between the two people, for me, is this passage:

"The vocabulary that can be used to define our relationship does not exist in this world. Acquaintances, friends, lovers, our relationship does not belong to any kind of people Created relationship divisions, but think about it carefully, what is our relationship? Only we know it! So we can define it ourselves." - Xidu

They have experienced friendship (Xidu started talking to Bai Yichen very early). Half a word), and also tried the worldly definition of love that lasts forever, but finally decided to return to the most comfortable relationship: the only existence to support each other unconditionally, and become the most reliable pillar of support in each other's difficult times.

Only in this way can Xidu and Bai Yichen have a clear conscience, and the relationship can no longer only consist of apologies and guilt; only in this way can Bai Yichen, who has been reborn in a miserable life as a reporter, no longer have worries and truly move forward courageously. Realize the somewhat unrealistic "hope" in the eyes of senior journalists. When

came to the end, the omniscient audience knew that Bai Yichen understood her sincerity when he accidentally received Xidu's diary when they broke up. Only Xidu was trapped in that mutually hurtful conversation, leaving Yichen in bed. In the dangerous time and space, she didn't know until the diary returned to its original owner that Yi Chen had already apologized and understood. As early as 25 or 21 years ago, they had already said goodbye to each other.

"Goodbye, Bai Yichen."
"Goodbye, Luo Xidu."