

Liang Chen gets to perform last! Karma! Su Bing Yu and Lu Jing hangout together watching and cheering their little Orange on from the couch. Fortunately, her plan backfires and what she thought was a 1 in her envelope turned out to be an upside down 7. She successfully baits Liang Chen into switching with her so she can have the better time slot. Meng Lan Zhi is still up to her old ways and sneakily takes a peak at her envelope that contains either the number 1 or 7 to determine who performs first or last. Time moves forward and Liang Chen is ready for her big competition. The phrase “be careful what you ask for” comes to mind with this situation! Thankfully our positive Su Bing Yu doesn’t stay down for long. Ma and her ex boyfriend were accidentally shown in a scrapbook Liang Chen had found. Sadly, the mood was changed quickly when old pictures of Ms. Su Bing Yu uses an opportunity to see Liang Chen and attempts to get information about Ms. They are so supportive in the most obnoxious of ways! Liang Chen is also forced to then come clean about their relationship to her assistant and manager. The episode concludes with Lu Jing being embarrassed on campus by his mischievous roommates. Liang Chen also receives the little box head doll Lu Jing previously teased was not for her. Our leads leave and finally get to celebrate Christmas Eve together. Ding Jia Yun really did not think this through. But our FL is not to be swayed and quickly reveals she is already in love with someone else and promptly leaves the table where Lu Jing is already waiting. Instead Ding Jia Yun prepares a confession complete with a violinist for Liang Chen. Oh, has it now? The party is indeed cancelled. Suspicions are confirmed as Su Bing Yu proceeds to tell Lu Jing how the party had been cancelled. It is an obvious set up and more like a romantic evening for two than a birthday party. Liang Chen and Ding Jia Yun begin the birthday celebration. He is so adorable, how can she not be cheered up seeing his puppy dog face? But Su Bing Yu arrives just in time with a smile and food in hand! I love his persistence. Ma is sitting alone and gets a call from her ex >.< trying to convince her to have Liang Chen accept his song. Our leads are off to the movies for their first official date as a couple. Honestly, I can't blame him! Who has a date at someone else’s apartment? Lol that’s not intrusive at all. After some light teasing and obvious flaunting from Lu Jing, Su Bing Yu has had enough and kicks the couple out. Shinkai wants viewers to walk away from the film thinking about “how to close the many doors we left open.” We’re sure the film’s theme will stay with viewers as Shinkai intends, just as it has for his many other deeply personal stories.Lu Jing arrives at Su Bing Yu's, who is instantly suspicious as he sees the change in behavior between our leads. More than in the literal sense, however, Shinkai loves to communicate important, relatable issues through his films. For a film filled with doors that need to be closed, it’s a clear theme to derive. The story of Suzume no Tojimari is all about closure, according to a statement from Shinkai to io9. The places she wanders into have a sky where all hours of the day seem to blend together- Beckoned by the mysterious doors, Suzume's "journey of closing doors" begins.” The doors that opened must be closed to shut out calamity that lies on the other side. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door - Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another.

“Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets a young man on a journey "looking for doors." Suzume follows him to a ruin to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door t as if "it" alone were saved from devastation.
