Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ning watched Pei Yujing face harassment during track practice, and Yang Sheng stepped in to punish Cheng Xia for disrupting training. Jiang Ning arrived and arranged for Hu Mengqing to record Pei Yujing’s training marks while he spoke with her.

• Jiang Ning watched Pei Yujing return to her place on the track as Cheng Xia and her friends took it over again.
• Hu Mengqing confronted Cheng Xia, and Gai Shixun arrived with a group of boys but failed to sway the argument.
• Yang Sheng crossed out Cheng Xia’s running records and filled in Pei Yujing’s remaining training marks.
• Hu Mengqing told Pei Yujing she no longer needed to practice, while Cheng Xia turned her anger toward her.
• Jiang Ning asked Hu Mengqing to fill in Pei Yujing’s training marks from then on, then said he would talk with Pei Yujing.

Jiang Ning confronted Pei Yujing about backing down when classmates asked her to sign up, then went to watch the long jump. At the Sand Pit, Gu Tai jumped 5.1 meters and Zhuang Jianhui stunned the crowd with a 6.49-meter jump.

• Jiang Ning reminded Pei Yujing of his advice for dealing with unwanted advances, but she admitted she had stayed quiet because speaking up would look bad.
• Hu Mengqing invited Jiang Ning to watch the long jump and gave the younger girls free time, while Gai Shixun's attempt to flirt with Zhao Qianqian backfired.
• Gu Tai jumped 5.1 meters, and Li Ying and the Sports Team criticized his technique before Ye Tian jumped 5.3 meters.
• Yun Tingting teased the boys who urged her to jump, then said she liked boys who could do the long jump, prompting more students to try.
• Zhuang Jianhui jumped 6.49 meters on his first attempt, impressing Li Ying and the Sports Team and drawing a crowd of admiring girls.

Yan Mu'en broke the school long-jump record before Jiang Ning stunned the crowd with a 7.22-meter jump. Yang Sheng called on Cheng Xia to honor their bet, while Chen Siyu answered Xue Yuantong’s call and weakly called for Jiang Ning.

• Yan Mu'en jumped 7.01 meters, breaking the school record, though Li Ying said the unofficial result would not count as an official record.
• Chen Siyu urged Jiang Ning to jump seven meters, and Yang Sheng bet Cheng Xia that he could do it, with Duan Shigang, Liu Chuandao, and Zhang Chi blocking her escape.
• Jiang Ning agreed to jump as the crowd cheered, and Yun Tingting promised to dance for him if he broke the record.
• Jiang Ning jumped 7.22 meters, astonishing the crowd, and Yang Sheng reminded Cheng Xia that she had lost their bet.
• Chen Siyu answered Xue Yuantong’s call, then weakly called out to Jiang Ning as he approached.

Yang Sheng forced Cheng Xia to honor their bet after Duan Shigang produced video proof, while Yan Mu'en tried to intervene. Later, Cui Yu disrupted Gai Shixun's approach to Xu Yan, and Jiang Ning shared an awkwardly tender conversation with Pei Yujing that left her flustered.

• Duan Shigang showed a video proving Cheng Xia had made the bet, and Yan Mu'en offered to roll in her place before Cheng Xia rolled twice in the Sand Pit herself.
• Gai Shixun tried to approach Xu Yan, but Cui Yu claimed to be her boyfriend, causing Gai Shixun to take back the drink and leave.
• Guo Kunnan celebrated Cui Yu's intervention by agreeing to treat the group to barbecue at Ma Jie's Barbecue.
• Jiang Ning met Pei Yujing, who gave him two bottles of grape juice and explained that her mother had inspired her to care for him.
• Jiang Ning teased Pei Yujing by asking if she wanted to be his mother, then called her cute, leaving her flustered.

Cheng Xia’s insult of Pang Jiao ended with Yan Mu'en being launched onto the Speech Platform, while Jiang Ning’s friends celebrated his long-jump success and the art and sports students changed classes. After Yang Sheng lent Jiang Ning her authority, Yu Wen lured Chen Shuaishuai into the Small Garden, where Liu Chuandao, Duan Shigang, and Zhang Chi confronted him over his treatment of Pei Yujing.

• Cheng Xia insulted Pang Jiao and Hong Yuanyuan, and Yan Mu'en was sent flying onto the Speech Platform when he tried to protect Cheng Xia from Pang Jiao’s palm strike.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing announced that Ai Man had recruited them for the Dance Team, while Jiang Ning’s friends discussed his 7.22-meter long jump and challenged one another to athletic boasts.
• Jiang Ning asked Yang Sheng to lend him her authority, and art and sports students began moving out of Class 8 as Gong Jin considered switching seats.
• Chen Shuaishuai ordered Pei Yujing’s group to clean the Water Dispenser, and Pei Yujing volunteered to do it herself.
• Yu Wen lured Chen Shuaishuai to the Small Garden by claiming Shen Qing'e wanted to befriend him, where Liu Chuandao, Duan Shigang, and Zhang Chi surrounded him and Yu Wen declared herself the class monitor.

Liu Chuandao, Duan Shigang, and Zhang Chi intimidated Chen Shuaishuai into treating Pei Yujing fairly, and he made her a hygiene inspector exempt from cleaning duties. Meanwhile, Jiang Ning’s concern unsettled Pei Yujing, and Chen Siyu and Yang Sheng compared identical barbecue invitations from a boy in the School Sports Planning Department.

• Yu Wen delivered a warning to Chen Shuaishuai on behalf of Pei Yujing, and the boys frightened him with a recording of Xue Yuantong.
• Chen Shuaishuai agreed not to report the confrontation and promised to help Pei Yujing, then later removed her as group leader and appointed her hygiene inspector, exempting her from cleaning duties.
• Jiang Ning told Pei Yujing that he had arranged for Chen Shuaishuai to be cornered and that seeing her do chores hurt him, leaving her flustered.
• Chen Siyu and Yang Sheng discovered that a boy from the School Sports Planning Department had sent them nearly identical messages and invited them to Ma Jie Barbecue.
• Chen Siyu called the boy a pervert after he invited her to barbecue that night, while Yang Sheng joked that she would ask whether he wanted to go too.

Jiang Ning prepared honey barbecue and a cup of Lemon Tea while Xue Chuchu struggled with her growing feelings for him and fears that he would touch her. After she took a sip, he revealed that the drink was only spicy because he had accidentally added chili powder.

• Jiang Ning grilled honey barbecue with Tongtong while Lin Zida borrowed honey from him to make his own barbecue.
• Tongtong brought Chuchu to Jiang Ning's courtyard, leaving her alone with him briefly.
• Chuchu saw Jiang Ning pour suspicious red powder into a drink and feared he had drugged her.
• Jiang Ning offered Chuchu the Lemon Tea, and she reluctantly took a small sip.
• Chuchu found the drink painfully spicy, and Jiang Ning said he had accidentally added chili powder.

Xue Chuchu ate the skewers meant for Xue Yuantong, while Jiang Ning spent the night joking and telling stories with Tongtong. Shao Shuangshuang, feeling lonely after sending her parents on a trip, went to meet three girls and reviewed Evergreen Medicine’s breakthrough treatment, leaving the reason for linking its release to No.4 Middle School’s spring event unexplained.

• Xue Chuchu ate all the grilled skewers before realizing she had left none for Xue Yuantong, and Jiang Ning made sure Tongtong got food too.
• Lin Zida grilled honey-coated prawns at the Agritainment, and Yin Yu kept eating them despite Zhuang Jianhui’s attempts to tease her.
• Xue Yuantong returned to Jiang Ning’s courtyard after showering, played Clash of Clans, and told him a quail bedtime joke.
• Shao Shuangshuang returned to an empty home and realized she missed her parents after sending them on an overseas tour.
• Shao Shuangshuang met three girls at Yuzhou South Station while Zhao Shuang reported that Evergreen Medicine’s trial treatment had reversed kidney fibrosis in all 128 patients.
• Shao Shuangshuang confirmed Evergreen Hospital was ready to open and acknowledged that releasing the new medicine alongside No.4 Middle School’s spring event sounded absurd.

Shao Shuangshuang welcomed three impoverished but gifted girls into her home, while students at No.4 Middle School reacted to incoming township students and spent PE class playing football. Jiang Ning ended the match with a spectacular long-range goal, leaving Zong Xiaoye questioning his passion for football.

• Shao Shuangshuang met Mei Dai and two other girls and told them they would live with her as her daughters.
• Shan Qingrong told Class 8 that top students from township high schools, including Xue Yuantong's hometown of Humiao Town, would join them the following week.
• Gu Wei asked Tang Jing why her cousin had gone cold toward him, and Tang Jing realized his disastrous joke about everything he supported dying had caused it.
• Zong Xiaoye scored twice against the older students during a football match, and Cui Yu recruited Jiang Ning to help their side.
• Jiang Ning stole the ball and scored from eighty meters away, astonishing Zong Xiaoye and the other players before returning to the track.

Teacher Ouyang stormed out of Class 8 after clashing with Lu Qiqi, while Chen Qian took over the physics lesson. Later, Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong started selling fried fish at the Dam Top, drawing a crowd after Jiang Ning added fragrant sesame, and Yin Yu bought the entire batch.

• Teacher Ouyang scolded Class 8, then left in anger after Lu Qiqi revealed that his son had been rejected by Yun Tingting.
• Chen Qian explained the physics problem to Class 8, and Teacher Ouyang returned to find him teaching at the podium.
• Jiang Ning bought all the anglers’ fish, and Xue Yuantong helped prepare them for a fried-fish stall.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong began selling fried fish, but the first customer was the ghost-flame youth who recognized Jiang Ning.
• Jiang Ning added fragrant Black Sesame to a large batch of fried fish, and Xu Wenyi praised it as pedestrians gathered to buy some.
• Yin Yu paid for the entire batch of fried fish, choosing half sweet-and-sour and half spicy.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong sold fried fish at the river dam, where Shen Qing'e and Shen Hongdie encountered them and discussed their year-long cold war. As students from Humiao Middle School prepared to transfer to No.4 Middle School, Han Wennuan impressed her classmates with her singing, and Jiang Ning received invitations from Shen Qing'e and Geng Lu to meet the next day.

• Yin Yu tried to buy up Xue Yuantong's fried fish to resell it, but Jiang Ning limited sales to one serving per customer, and Xue Yuantong turned away a woman who wanted fish for her dog.
• Xue Yuantong, Jiang Ning, and Xue Chuchu sold all their fried fish, earning 1,530 yuan in revenue, and Xue Chuchu told them that Zhong Huai and Han Wennuan would transfer to No.4 Middle School.
• Shen Hongdie and Shen Qing'e met Jiang Ning at the river dam, tried his fried fish, and Shen Qing'e admitted that she and Jiang Ning had been in a cold war for about a year.
• At a farewell gathering, Zhong Huai gave an emotional speech and sang about his father, while Han Wennuan quietly studied before outsinging a glamorous classmate in a duet.
• After Jiang Ning returned home, Shen Qing'e and Geng Lu separately messaged him to ask whether he was free to meet the next day.

Shen Qing'e approached Jiang Ning by offering him cheap grass carp, but learned he was buying it to help another friend. The next day, Jiang Ning took Geng Lu on a picnic before she left Yuzhou, while Shen Qing'e spotted them together and fled; the chapter ended with Geng Lu joking to Chen Siyu that she had drugged Jiang Ning.

• Shen Qing'e created a Kuaishou account and offered Jiang Ning grass carp for three yuan per jin, and he ordered a hundred jin to help a friend sell fried fish.
• Jiang Ning brought fried fish to Zhuang Jianhui and Lin Zida, then had Xue Yuantong cook dinner before Aunt Gu returned with food and praised Tongtong for earning a thousand yuan at her stall.
• Jiang Ning left early Saturday to meet Geng Lu, and the two went to the market to buy ingredients for a picnic.
• Shen Qing'e saw Jiang Ning and Geng Lu together at the market and hurried away before he could ask why she was there.
• At Wetland Park, Geng Lu grilled and ate with Jiang Ning, gave him preservative-free eye drops, and helped put a drop in his eye.
• When Chen Siyu messaged Jiang Ning, Geng Lu told her he could not reply because she had just drugged him, prompting Chen Siyu to panic.

At Wetland Park, Jiang Ning and Geng Lu shared a playful afternoon before he recovered a memory of once losing her a golden candy wrapper loop. He used a fishing trick to give her a golden ring, and Geng Lu told him it was already worn in her heart.

• Geng Lu and Jiang Ning put eye drops in each other’s mouths by accident while Chen Siyu worried that they were drugging each other.
• As they grilled skewers, Jiang Ning remembered a rainy day in 2015 when he had offered Geng Lu a golden loop from a candy wrapper, then hurried off to help Shen Qing'e before Geng Lu could find it again.
• Jiang Ning asked Geng Lu if she wanted to see a magic trick, then fished a Big Black Carp from the lake and found a golden ring in its mouth.
• Geng Lu delightedly accepted the ring, and Jiang Ning asked if its disappearance would feel like fate.
• Geng Lu told Jiang Ning that the ring was already worn in her heart.

Jiang Ning ran into Shen Qing'e and gave her a ride home, while she reminisced about their school days and hoped to rekindle their relationship. He rejected her nostalgia and left her at her residential complex, saying he had to get back for a fish delivery.

• Jiang Ning inspected Xuehua Lake as a possible cultivation site, then encountered Shen Qing'e and their former classmates downtown.
• Xiao Shaoxiong made a show of his status, while Shen Qing'e declined his offer of a ride and asked Jiang Ning to take her home.
• During the ride, Shen Qing'e recalled their shared school memories and secretly planned to get close to Jiang Ning again.
• Shen Qing'e mistook Jiang Ning's remark about the ride for a wish to return to the past, but he explained that he had only been coasting downhill.
• Jiang Ning dropped Shen Qing'e off and refused to talk, saying he needed to return home to receive a fish delivery.

Jiang Ning, Tongtong, and Chuchu sold fried fish at the River Dam, where Xue Chuchu reunited with students from Humiao Middle School and Zhong Huai reacted to her stall work. In the city, Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing discussed visiting Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning, and Mother Chen eagerly urged them to go.

• Tongtong asked Jiang Ning to fund her remote-control car project, and he offered her the money from selling fried fish.
• Jiang Ning, Tongtong, and Chuchu prepared a hundred pounds of Grass Carp and set up their stall at the River Dam.
• Zhong Huai led students from Humiao Middle School around the Dam and proposed treating the girls to grilled fish while criticizing Xue Chuchu for not organizing a meal.
• Xue Chuchu reunited with Han Wennuan and the other students at Jiang Ning's stall, while Tongtong defended their portions and said the stall earned over a thousand yuan a day.
• Zhong Huai dismissed stall work as a poor substitute for studying, while Han Wennuan wished she could earn money like Tongtong and Chuchu.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing considered visiting Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning, and Mother Chen insisted they go and demanded Chen Siqing's phone.

Chen Siyu and her sister arranged to stay at Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong’s home after claiming they were locked out, then joined them for a lively dinner. The group shared food and jokes while Bai Yuxia watched from her quiet home, thinking of the secret she shared with Jiang Ning.

• Chen Siyu resisted her mother’s attempt to intervene, then messaged Jiang Ning that she and Chen Siqing had forgotten their keys and asked to stay the night.
• Tongtong calculated the earnings from their fried-fish stall, and Jiang Ning agreed to let the twins stay at their home.
• Jiang Ning, Tongtong, and Chuchu prepared dinner with ingredients they had received from neighbors, and the twins arrived with juice made by their mother.
• Chen Siyu sent Bai Yuxia a photo of the feast, leaving Bai Yuxia alone with her instant noodles and thoughts of the Cyan Jade Ring.
• The five ate a lavish dinner and traded jokes about fermented-rice-wine buns, alcohol, and famous physicians.

Jiang Ning and the twins shared a dinner, then Chen Siyu’s attempt to get Jiang Ning to torment Chen Siqing ended in an unwanted math test. On the way to school, Jiang Ning hit a child who ran into his bike and rode on; afterward, Shang Zhengyu went to Boundless Fighting to spar with Jiang Ning.

• Jiang Ning ate dinner with Tongtong, Chen Siyu, Chen Siqing, and Xue Chuchu, while the group traded jokes and stories.
• Chen Siyu and Chen Siqing turned off the lights to lure Jiang Ning into their revenge scheme, but he made Chen Siqing do a math test instead.
• Jiang Ning took Tongtong to school and passed Shang Caiwei and Shang Zhengyu on the road; Shang Zhengyu avoided racing them.
• A child ran into Jiang Ning’s Electric Bike and was knocked down, but Jiang Ning rode away as Shang Zhengyu and Shang Caiwei discussed whether the child was hurt.
• Shang Zhengyu dropped Shang Caiwei at school, then went to Boundless Fighting and agreed to spar with its boss.

Dong Qingfeng trained at the Fighting Gym, learned how far he stood from elite fighters, and was beaten badly by Shang Zhengyu after discussing a martial arts game and Meng Ziyun. Back at school, he vented his frustration on Cao Kun and Shen Xinli, then received bruise ointment from Duan Shigang.

• Dong Qingfeng watched Coach Du and Shang Zhengyu spar and heard Coach Du explain the tiers of professional fighters.
• Dong Qingfeng suggested Shang Zhengyu use motion capture to make a martial arts action game, then mentioned the girl in his class who shared Shang Zhengyu's surname and talked about bringing her breakfast.
• Shang Zhengyu challenged Dong Qingfeng to spar and knocked him down with a kick and a punch, then called his talent average.
• Dong Qingfeng returned to school bruised, failed to find Meng Ziyun, and confronted Cao Kun about his unhappiness.
• Cui Yu and the other boys shouted for Yun Tingting, and Guo Kunnan played badminton with her while Shi Qianjin was taken away by Gao Heshaui.
• Dong Qingfeng mocked Shen Xinli until the resentment in his heart eased, and Duan Shigang gave him bruise ointment; Dong Qingfeng offered to pay for his boxing lessons.

Class 8 welcomed six transfer students, whose introductions brought out the class's usual jokes and rivalries. After the students chose their seats, Zhang Chi charged Zhong Huai fifteen yuan for opening a can of peaches, while Han Wennuan declined his offer of help finding work.

• Yun Tingting told Liu Chuandao that she did not like his type, and Yu Wen paid Meng Gui to recover eighteen yuan from someone who had taken her money and deleted her.
• Shan Qingrong brought Zhong Huai, Yin Yu, Zhang Zhaodi, Xiao Shaoxiong, Han Wennuan, and Jian Xi into Class 8 as new students.
• The new students introduced themselves, while Cui Yu and Meng Gui were sent to the back for interrupting.
• Zhong Huai and Han Wennuan chose seats near Zhang Chi, and Zhong Huai said Han Wennuan wanted to find a part-time job.
• Zhang Chi pretended to struggle with a can of peaches, let Zhong Huai open it, and then demanded fifteen yuan from him.

Yin Yu joined Class 8 and stunned her new classmates with a score of 655, while the students traded barbs and jokes around her. Wang Longlong asserted his authority as acting class monitor, leaving Chen Siyu, Bai Yuxia, and Tongtong to discuss how power changed people.

• Yin Yu introduced herself to Shen Qing'e and the others, then revealed that her supposedly disappointing final-exam score was 655, prompting Jiang Yanan and Meng Ziyun to react in disbelief.
• Lu Qiqi mocked Zhang Zhaodi's boyfriend for his height and spending habits, and Xiao Shaoxiong angrily defended him before Lu Qiqi turned her insults on Xiao Shaoxiong.
• Yin Yu invited Jian Xi to sit with her, but Jian Xi declined; Yin Yu then silenced Cui Yu's teasing by mentioning that someone in her family worked at the courthouse.
• Gong Jin talked with Yin Yu about war games and military tactics, while Tongtong slept through class and Chen Siyu danced for Han Wennuan and Bai Yuxia.
• Wang Longlong reprimanded several students and asserted control as Yu Wen's stand-in, while Chen Siyu, Bai Yuxia, and Tongtong discussed how power affected people's willingness to hear criticism.