Recaps

Wuling and Lingyang watched Calcharo suffer after he ate a sour dish and drank hot water, then Xigelika joined them in the cafeteria. Danya returned without food after the military trainees emptied the serving windows, and Wuling offered her his sausage.

• Calcharo ate a mouthful of sour purple food, then Wuling accidentally scalded him with hot water while trying to help him recover.
• Xigelika arrived and asked to sit with Wuling, Calcharo, and Lingyang while Danya went to get food.
• Wuling told Xigelika that Calcharo had eaten something bad, and Xigelika assumed military training had upset his stomach.
• Danya searched the cafeteria but found that the food had been taken by the military trainees, so she returned empty-handed.
• Wuling offered Danya his sausage after she explained that she had found nothing to eat.

Wuling brought extra grilled sausages to the infirmary, and an accidental mouthful left Xigelika and him awkwardly sharing one. After Danya teased them, Xigelika thanked Wuling before heading to the cafeteria with Danya, while Calcharo remained confused about what had happened.

• Wuling offered sausages to Danya and Xigelika, and Danya eagerly ate hers while Xigelika initially refused.
• Xigelika accidentally got the sausage in her mouth when Wuling moved it toward her, leaving it coated with her saliva.
• Danya teased Xigelika into eating the sausage rather than wasting it, and Xigelika nervously accepted it from Wuling and finished it.
• Calcharo woke enough to ask why everyone was acting strangely, and Danya called the incident a grown-up secret.
• Xigelika apologized and thanked Wuling before Danya pulled her toward the cafeteria line, while Lingyang teased Wuling and Calcharo stayed puzzled.

After dinner, Danya arranged for Wuling to accompany Xigelika to the back mountain on Saturday morning, helping her see the unfamiliar birds there. Wuling agreed, and Danya hurried Xigelika away before she could say more.

• Danya finished her meal and asked Wuling if he was free on Saturday morning.
• Danya told Wuling she could no longer take Xigelika to the back mountain and asked him to go in her place.
• Wuling pointed out that he did not know the way, so Danya said Xigelika could lead while he helped her on the steep paths.
• Xigelika admitted she knew the way and asked Wuling to come with her; he agreed to meet her at eight by the cafeteria entrance.
• Danya pulled Xigelika away at the fork in the road, and Xigelika glanced back at Wuling before turning away when their eyes met.

Wuling endured Instructor Jiyan’s punishing individual training, then waited out the final seconds before his promised exemption from training. After Calcharo and Lingyang mocked him, Wuling laughed, caught their attacks, and recited a poem while holding them.

• Instructor Jiyan singled Wuling out for individual training after seeing how fast he ran at noon.
• Wuling kept running and exercising through the session, knowing that lasting until the end would earn him several days away from military training as a supervisor.
• During the break, Calcharo and Lingyang taunted Wuling and danced in front of him.
• Wuling watched the clock until training ended, then burst into laughter as Calcharo and Lingyang realized something was wrong.
• Calcharo and Lingyang reached for Wuling’s mouth, but he caught their attacks and recited “Becoming a Venerable” from “Insect Stories.”

Wuling used his new authority to punish Calcharo and Lingyang with extra running, then made them fetch him water. Camellya brought him a bottle and sat beside him, deciding to speak about the incident that had kept her from contacting him.

• Wuling made Calcharo and Lingyang run extra laps to vent his grudge against them.
• Wuling ordered Calcharo and Lingyang to buy him water in exchange for ending their punishment, and they ran off quickly.
• Camellya surprised Wuling with a bottle of cold water, and he thanked her before asking why she had come to the field.
• Camellya explained that she had no afternoon classes and had stopped by to watch the freshmen train, while keeping her real reason to herself.
• Camellya recalled that she had avoided contacting Wuling since an earlier incident, then decided to speak to him before she lost her nerve.

Camellya asked Wuling how he saw her and whether he would be happy that she cared about him, while Wuling misunderstood her intentions and said he was glad as a friend. When Camellya asked whether he remembered what happened that night, Calcharo and Lingyang overheard and Calcharo broke down, convinced Wuling had been unfaithful to Rover.

• Camellya asked Wuling what he thought of her, and he called her a closet pervert before quickly claiming he was joking.
• Camellya asked Wuling again, and he told her she was quiet and thoughtful, seemed hard to approach, and was actually a good person.
• Camellya asked what he would think if she said she cared about him, and Wuling replied that he was happy she cared as a friend.
• Camellya asked Wuling whether he remembered what happened that night, and Calcharo and Lingyang overheard them.
• Calcharo dropped the water bottles, fell to his knees, and wailed that Wuling had betrayed Rover.

Wuling fled the sports field after Calcharo and Lingyang made dramatic romantic declarations, then confronted them in a grove and threatened their iced black tea and study materials. Camellya caught up after the two left, and Wuling prepared to talk with her privately.

• Calcharo and Lingyang clung to Wuling and claimed they could be his lovers, prompting him to carry them away from the watching students while Camellya chased after them.
• Wuling dropped Calcharo and Lingyang in a grove and demanded to know what they were trying to do.
• Calcharo and Lingyang begged Wuling not to destroy their iced black tea or study materials, then admitted how valuable their collection was.
• Camellya found Wuling, and Calcharo and Lingyang mistakenly treated her as a demoness trying to seduce him.
• Wuling reminded Calcharo and Lingyang that military training was about to resume, and they left after warning him and Camellya that they would be watching.
• Wuling told Camellya they could finally have a proper talk.

Wuling rushed from school to his part-time job, where a strange white-haired girl accused him of forgetting her. He finally recognized her as Abu, who had transformed into a girl and revealed she had been pretending to be aggrieved.

• Wuling left Camellya before she could respond, then returned to school and gathered with Calcharo before dismissal.
• Wuling hurried to his part-time job and rested in the storeroom while playing with Bozai.
• A white-haired girl called Wuling a heartbreaker, claiming he had asked her for help half an hour earlier.
• Wuling noticed the girl's french-fry-shaped hair clip and mismatched eyes, then guessed she was Abu.
• Abu dropped her aggrieved act and revealed she had been pretending while waiting for Wuling to recognize her.

Wuling discovered that Abu could take human form and teased her by rubbing her sensitive ears. Chisaki walked in on them and saw Abu, who introduced herself as Wuling’s little sister.

• Wuling confirmed that the white-haired girl was Abu when she listed all the food he had bought her.
• Abu revealed that her human form was what she looked like as a girl, and Wuling held her and rubbed her ears.
• Abu blushed and begged Wuling to stop, promising to eat less and stop coaxing him into buying food.
• Chisaki entered the storeroom and saw Wuling holding Abu, then asked who the girl was.
• Abu introduced herself to Chisaki as Wuling’s little sister.

Abu appeared in a visible little-girl form and helped Wuling convince Chisaki that she was his cousin. After Chisaki returned to work, Abu explained that she could not turn invisible in this form and needed to wait an hour before changing back, so Wuling agreed to buy her snacks while she stayed by him.

• Abu introduced herself to Chisaki as Wuling's little sister, and Wuling improvised that she was his cousin who had come to visit.
• Chisaki accepted their explanation, gave Abu and Wuling chocolate sticks, and went back to serving customers.
• Abu dropped her shy act and told Wuling that anyone could see her in this form and that changing back had a one-hour cooldown.
• Wuling told Abu to stay nearby and behave until she could change back.
• Abu claimed that maintaining her human form made her hungry, and Wuling agreed to buy her fruit tea and snacks.