Character Relationship Map: So Young 2: Never Gone

Characters

• Cheng Zheng (played by Kris Wu) — protagonist

  Wealthy heir and popular high school star who pursues Su Yunjin through college.

• Su Yunjin (played by Liu Yifei) — protagonist

  Transfer student from a struggling family who becomes Cheng Zheng's love interest.

• Zhou Ziyi (played by Jin Shijia) — supporting

  High school peer and friend within Cheng Zheng and Su Yunjin's social circle.

• Mo Yu Hua (played by Li Meng) — supporting

  High school classmate who interacts with the main duo during their youth.

• Meng Xue (played by Li Qin) — supporting

  High school friend who shares moments with the protagonists during their youth.

• Shen Juan (played by Qiao Renliang) — supporting

  Su Yunjin's close friend and former suitor who provides financial help.

• Mother Su (played by Liu Chen Xia) — minor

  Su Yunjin's mother whose illness creates financial strain and plot conflict.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Su Yunjin → Mother Su (Family Daughter And Mother) — Su Yunjin faces an urgent financial crisis while trying to secure surgery for her seriously ill mother.

  The plot identifies Mother Su as Su Yunjin's mother and says Su Yunjin learns that she has cervical cancer and needs urgent surgery.

• Cheng Zheng → Su Yunjin (Romantic Partners) — Their romance develops from high-school attraction into a proposed marriage, but differences in their backgrounds and choices repeatedly strain their relationship.

  Cheng Zheng pursues Su Yunjin during their school years, and they later reunite. He proposes marriage, and they later argue over her mother's medical...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Zhou Ziyi → Su Yunjin (Social School Acquaintances) — Zhou Ziyi is part of Su Yunjin's high-school environment, but the reference gives no specific interaction between them.

  The plot says Zhou Ziyi becomes another presence in Su Yunjin's school life.

• Su Yunjin → Shen Juan (Alliance Financial Supporter) — Shen Juan provides Su Yunjin with financial help during her mother's medical crisis, a choice that becomes a source of conflict between her and Cheng Zheng.

  When Su Yunjin urgently needs money for her mother's surgery, she tells Cheng Zheng that she has already borrowed from Shen Juan.

• Cheng Zheng → Meng Xue (Social Childhood Friend) — Meng Xue is part of Cheng Zheng’s earlier social circle, and her presence contributes to the school-life relationships around him and Su Yunjin.

  The plot identifies Meng Xue as Cheng Zheng’s childhood friend.

• Su Yunjin → Mo Yu Hua (Social Friend) — Mo Yu Hua becomes a school friend with whom Su Yunjin shares a connection rooted in their difficult circumstances.

  Su Yunjin befriends Mo Yu Hua at her new high school, and the plot describes Mo Yu Hua as sharing her difficult background.

Story Analysis

A romance shaped by class differences, difficult choices, and recurring financial hardship, ending with a personal and practical crisis unresolved.

Plot Progression

1. A New School and Uneasy Attraction — Su Yunjin's financially struggling family transfers her to a better high school. She meets Cheng Zheng, befriends Mo Yu Hua, and navigates the social circle around her.
2. Feelings Put on Hold — Cheng Zheng's feelings complicate Su Yunjin's studies. She asks him to keep away until the entrance exams are over, and their school year ends with their feelings unresolved.
3. Distance and Reconciliation — Jealousy and misunderstandings trouble the couple as Su Yunjin weighs love against a quiet, secure life. Her move to Shanghai causes a painful separation, but they reunite and Cheng Zheng proposes mar...
4. A Medical Crisis Reopens Their Divide — Su Yunjin learns that her mother needs expensive cancer surgery and faces a financial emergency complicated by a relative's embezzlement. Cheng Zheng offers money, but her prior borrowing from Shen Ju...