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撕碎的画，和他那句“我都信你”
A Torn Painting, and the Words "I Trust You"
About this story
In Never-Ending Summer, a torn painting, a swapped portfolio, a championship, and a confession — Zhou Wan admits she used Lu Xixiao, and he gives his trust completely. HSK 3 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 3-4 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 13 key vocabulary words such as 画、发现、重要 and walks through 4 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
Last time, Zhou Wan moved into the Lu home and lived side by side with Lu Xixiao; both were quietly drawing closer, and he even discovered that the person he truly wanted to paint was her.
Today, let's keep going.
One day, Lu Xixiao solemnly gave Zhou Wan a painting he'd made with great care.
That painting held all his feelings, and Zhou Wan couldn't put it down.
But this scene landed right in the eyes of Zhou Wan's mother.
To force the two of them to break off cleanly, she tore the painting to shreds right in front of Zhou Wan.
Zhou Wan's heart tore with it; she crouched on the floor and picked up the scraps, piece by piece.
Early the next morning, her mother ordered her to move out of the Lu home.
And of all days, this was Lu Xixiao's most important one — he was to take his art portfolio to see a very important professor.
Something stirred in Zhou Wan; she suspected her mother would tamper with the portfolio.
She rushed back to search, and sure enough, in her own cabinet, dug out the swapped original.
Zhou Wan dropped everything, grabbed the real portfolio, and ran all out to find Lu Xixiao, pressing it into his hands at the last moment.
Later, Lu Xixiao won the championship in a competition.
He was thrilled beyond words; the first person he wanted to share it with was Zhou Wan.
But when he found her, he froze completely.
She'd been beaten bloody by a few thugs, her head split open, her foot injured too.
Anxious and aching for her, Lu Xixiao called the police at once and carefully dressed her wounds.
Having hidden it so long, Zhou Wan's heart had long been unbearably choked.
She finally spoke: at the start, I got close to you on purpose. I used you.
She thought Lu Xixiao would surely turn and walk away after hearing it.
But he didn't.
He just looked at her, steady, and said word by word: it's all right.
He said: from now on, whatever you do, I trust you; you don't have to explain anything to me.
Later still, Lu Xixiao found out that Zhou Wan worked alone, kept watch over her hospitalized grandma alone, and swallowed every hurt by herself.
He didn't ask a thing; he only wanted to keep her more firmly behind him.
Lu Xixiao gave his trust so completely, yet Zhou Wan still pressed down an even bigger secret.
She never dared say it out loud: the woman who kept cornering her was her own birth mother.
This summer, the two of them drew closer and closer, while she was squeezed tighter and tighter.
If someone were willing to trust you this completely, yet you still carried a secret that couldn't see the light, what would you do?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 3. 精心画的一幅画 = a painting made with great care.
HSK 3. 陆西骁甚至发现… = Lu Xixiao even discovered…
HSK 3. 陆西骁最重要的日子 = Lu Xixiao's most important day.
HSK 4. 我是故意接近你的 = I got close to you on purpose.
HSK 4. 怀疑妈妈会对作品集下手 = suspected her mother would tamper with the portfolio.
Beyond HSK 3. 把那幅画一把撕碎 = tore the painting to shreds.
Beyond HSK 3. 他要带着作品集去见教授 = he takes his portfolio to the professor.
Beyond HSK 3. 被调包的原件 = the swapped-out original.
Beyond HSK 3. 在比赛里拿了冠军 = won the championship.
Beyond HSK 3. 被几个混混打得头破血流 = beaten bloody by a few thugs.
Beyond HSK 3. 我利用了你 = I used you.
Beyond HSK 3. 陆西骁把信任给得这样彻底 = Lu Xixiao gave his trust so completely.
Beyond HSK 3. 正是她的亲生母亲 = is precisely her own birth mother.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法偏偏 (of all times)
偏偏 = as luck would have it / precisely (at the worst moment).
偏偏这一天，是陆西骁最重要的日子。
把 + O + 撕碎 (result)
把 + object + verb + result complement shows what happens to the object (torn to shreds).
把那幅画一把撕碎。
把碎纸捡起来。
从今往后
从今往后 = from now on / from this day forward.
从今往后，不管你做什么，我都信你。
越 A 越 B
越 A 越 B = the more A, the more B; here two 越…越 clauses run in parallel.
两个人越走越近，也把她越逼越紧。
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