Salad Days (Jing Shui Bian)

Description

This is the story between a young innocent ballet boy and a passionate, determined boxing boy. The two met at the children's palace, and since then, they have grown up together supporting each other. May there be hardships, may there be obstacles, yet they never stopped pursuing their dreams. The beauty of the salad days is the sweat from the hard work and the bonding of friendship.

Although they have completely different paths set up for them, what never changes is their beautiful friendship...

Original Manhua:
KuaiKan, AC.QQ, BiliBili

Official Translations:
French, Indonesian
English: Tapas, Toomics, Lalatoon, Mangatoon
Spanish (LA): Toomics, Lalatoon
Spanish (ES): Tapas, Toomics, Lalatoon, Mangatoon
B.Portuguese: Toomics, Lalatoon
German: Digital (Toomics, Lalatoon); Physical (Normal, Special)

Note: Salad Days; a Shakespearean idiomatic expression meaning a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person.

Type

Manhua

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Bailarino

Ballerino (Tang Liu Zang)

Danzando en tu corazón

Dias De Juventude

Jing Jiu

Kiên Định

Pirouette Into My Heart

Salad Days (Tang LiuZang)

白鳥の湖をあなたと

经久

내 마음속에서 피루엣

Groups Scanlating

Jungle Translations

Latest Release(s)

c.68 by Jungle Translations 4 years ago

c.67 by Jungle Translations 4 years ago

c.66 by Jungle Translations 4 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

143 Chapters + 2 Prologues + 8 Extras + 10 Side Stories = 163 (Complete)

S1: 74 Chapters + Prologue + 3 Extras
S2: 69 Chapters + Prologue + 5 Extras + 10 Side Stories

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8.8 / 10.0 (87 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.16 / 10.0

44%

22%

17%

Last Updated

May 31st, 2025 1:46am PDT - 3 months ago

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Genre

Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life Sports
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Acqq

BiliBili

Kuaikan Manhua

Serialized In (magazine)

N/A

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

BiliBili Comics (Defunct)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #741

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Monthly Pos #1857

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3 Month Pos #2916

(-395)

6 Month Pos #3543

(-899)

Year Pos #4901

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List Stats

On 253 reading lists

On 181 wish lists

On 122 completed lists

On 18 unfinished lists

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Excelent art and wonderful story

by BBHFdude
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I absolutely loved the artwork.. The story is a slow burn and very touching. .. Innocent and wonderful... Definitely a good read!!!

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I wish it would have never ended

by YuriTachikawa
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I loved EVERY character in this story. The high amount of chapters are really justified since everyone's motive and story get explored. It's not just a mix of short stories but the characters are all connected to the MC reaching for his dream and inspiring everyone along the way.

The main love story might be cliche but it fits just right with those two MCs. Yes it's slowburn, but not in a frustrating way. The way the minute interactions are written is what is really captivating about this story. I'm looking forward to the author's next work.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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Dreams never die

by Fati1367
1 year ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

"Let's be ugly together" ❤️
One word, beautiful.

Well sometimes it was way toooo unrealistic, like it's getting ridiculous especially parents reaction, the way his company never stop him from that ridiculous confession on stage especially in a country like china . look even here , it's a shounen ai but we still see freaking butterfly and flowers everywhere when they kiss or get too close to each other bcz china is so hateful and against gays , they even have rules against it so yeah it just so unrealistic but I still loved it bcz of the message and goodness in it.
It gives hope, love and courage to ppl so how can I hate it?! 😊
Anyway f*ck China government, all communist and lefties 😂

Yk I always had problems with manhua's in general , I liked around 4 manhua btw all manhuas I read in years I have problems with their pacing, short chapters , story telling, unlikable characters and ...
But this one done greatly , it's felt refreshing, young, pure , beautiful, inspiring and sincere.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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Loved it— very memorable

by FANGURL999
1 year ago

Rating: N/A

Years after reading this it still holds a special place in my heart <33 such a good romance

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Wonderful

by MangaGirl1999
1 year ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Loved the artwork.

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Great love story ❤️

by Pompina Q
2 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This is a great love story. The story follows the main couple and their circle of friends from childhood through adulthood. You see the characters go through life challenges and overcoming them. The story does not only focus on the main couple, but also on the stories of the circle of friends. There are many things that I love about the story:

-There’s no extreme situations that are completely unreasonably. This includes the challenges that they have to overcome as they are growing up and the environments that they come from. Even though the ML is wealthy and the MC is not. It is not depicted as either having typical crazy rich, tsundere, super poor, abused, or super forgiving types and backgrounds.
-Both the ML and the MC want to be with each other and do everything that they can to make things work.
-the group of friends and the familial members that are with you throughout. The story are all very supportive of each other. We even get to know about their backgrounds, and how they develop and grow into adulthood.
-There’s no crazy curveballs at the end of the story, or in the side stories that throw off the field or the story.
-There is a cute little AU story at the very end that totally works for me because it flipped their backgrounds and was almost like a little mini story at the end, just showing how the main CP would have been together no matter what.
-Of course you know it’s good when you’re always left wanting more of these characters and you find yourself thinking that you’re gonna miss them. I would have loved to have more but feel like I had just enough at the same time.

I love it when a great love story comes along and happens to fall in the genres that I love reading about. I loved this so much I’ll be buying the novel from Amazon.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Beautiful but not outstanding

by Nanoko
3 years ago

Rating: 7.5 / 10.0

It starts out 10/10, with major Billy Elliot vibes but then the characters turn out to be a bit cardboardy for my taste... Well, it's sweet and beautiful but not that deep.

It made me realize, though, that manga / manhua tend to have a propensity to either rush into or indefinitely postpone kissing / s*x. It's weird, compared to western love stories.

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