Both Better Days and Twelve Letters portray the brutal realities of youth growing up in abusive homes, poverty, and broken systems. They show how even the smallest happiness feels like a miracle when life is filled with pain. Just as Better Days follows traumatized kids clinging to each other for warmth, Twelve Letters depicts Tang Yixun and Ye Hitang two scarred souls supporting each other across parallel timelines of 1991 and 2026. The sacrifices of characters like Sheng Cheng and Ye Nian echo the same heartbreaking weight of lost youth, while the fragile romance at the center reminds us that even 'hopeless folks are still hanging on.' If Better Days left you aching, Twelve Letters will touch the same wound, but with a bittersweet tenderness.
