Chapter Summaries

Wang Longlong tried to rally Class 8 against Class 11 by recruiting a hero, and Zhong Huai volunteered only to be assigned heavy book-carrying work. Later, Jiang Ning visited Guo Ran in the teachers’ office, where Xiao Tao was reprimanded and Gao Heshaui was eventually summoned to a real fight in Class 9.

• Wang Longlong urged Class 8 to improve its discipline and challenged the students to volunteer as heroes, then appointed Zhong Huai when he raised his hand.
• Wang Longlong handed Zhong Huai over to Student Union vice president Chai Yichen, who assigned him and the other volunteers to carry books to the third-floor Warehouse.
• Jiang Ning left evening study to eat sunflower seeds with Guo Ran, while Wang Longlong stopped Xiao Shaoxiong from following him out.
• Director Yan reprimanded trainee teacher Xiao Tao in front of the office staff and ordered her to write a two-thousand-word self-criticism.
• Young Woman Zhou discovered that her students had prepared a birthday surprise, while Xiao Tao continued crying and Gao Heshaui tried to console her with advice.
• Wang Longlong told Gao Heshaui that a student in his class was fighting, and Gao found Shen Xinli and Lu Zhenxin grappling amid overturned desks in Class 9.

At school, Gao Heshaui handled Shen Xinli and Lu Zhenxin’s fight while Jiang Ning and Guo Ran watched, and Xue Yuantong spent class playing a game with Chen Siyu. After evening self-study, students gathered for barbecue under Zhong Huai’s “Men Pay, Women Free” plan, while Meng Gui unsettled the twins with an ominous fortune.

• Gao Heshaui brought Shen Xinli and Lu Zhenxin to the office after catching them fighting, then approved three days of leave for Shen Xinli and sent both students back to class.
• Jiang Ning suggested calling Pang Jiao to treat Shen Xinli, who sprang up immediately, and Guo Ran challenged Gao Heshaui’s idea of being an unremarkable teacher.
• Xue Yuantong invited Chen Siyu to play Modern Combat 4, and Chen Siyu identified the beach landing as resembling the Normandy Landings before giving a mistaken explanation of World War II.
• Zhong Huai agreed to Liu Chuandao’s barbecue invitation, while Lu Qiqi criticized Zhang Zhaodi’s boyfriend and Hu Jun argued with her after Ma Shicheng’s remark.
• Meng Gui confirmed that Yu Wen had received her eighteen yuan back, invited Jiang Yanan to eat with Cui Yu, and warned Chen Siyu to watch out for those around her.
• At Ma Jie Barbecue, Zhong Huai proposed that the men pay and the women eat free, and the boys agreed as Zhang Zhaodi explained that Yin Yu had transferred from Ancheng.

At a barbecue gathering, Zhang Chi, Duan Shigang, and Liu Chuandao abandoned their classmates to play billiards, leaving Zhong Huai to cover most of the bill. On the way back, Zhang Chi took advantage of a minor car accident to collect 800 yuan from An Chan for an electric bike that was not his.

• Zhong Huai treated his classmates to barbecue, where they met the cold but beautiful waitress Pei Yujing and talked about Jiang Ning.
• Zhang Chi, Duan Shigang, and Liu Chuandao pretended to leave for drinks, but they ran off; Han Wennuan later found Zhang Chi and Duan Shigang at a billiards hall.
• Zhong Huai paid 256 yuan of the barbecue bill while Xiao Shaoxiong covered his own share, and Duan Shigang paid for billiards.
• As Zhang Chi, Duan Shigang, and Han Wennuan walked back, Zhang Chi and Han Wennuan talked about their struggles to make money and hopes for the future.
• An Chan accidentally hit a parked electric bike with her BMW, and Zhang Chi demanded 800 yuan, claiming the bike was his.
• After An Chan paid and drove away, Duan Shigang asked when Zhang Chi had bought an electric bike, and Zhang Chi admitted it was not his.

An Chan began teaching Class 8 and discovered that Zhang Chi, who had made her pay for a scraped electric bike, was one of her students. Zhang Chi started lending money at steep interest and ended the chapter pressing a crying student to improve her math so she could repay him.

• An Chan introduced herself to Class 8, recognized Zhang Chi as the student who had demanded compensation from her, and struggled to keep the unruly class focused during biology.
• Yun Tingting rejected Liu Chuandao’s public confession, while Zhang Zhaodi lamented that she and her former schoolmate had ended up far apart.
• Zhang Chi lent Liang Sheng 100 yuan to repair his phone in exchange for 125 yuan the following week, then took Duan Shigang to continue his lending scheme.
• An Chan complained to Guo Ran that Class 8 was far more disruptive than her other classes, while a male teacher arrived with rock concert tickets for her.
• Zhang Chi confronted a student who owed him money and learned that better math grades would restore her allowance, so he proposed tying her repayment to her academic improvement.

Deng Xiang’s group warned Zhang Chi to stop his tutoring-loan scheme, then confronted Liang Sheng over the money he had borrowed from Zhang Chi. Zhang Chi took Liang Sheng back to the phone shop, where Deng Xiang accused him of bringing people to block the shop.

• Chen Shuaishuai stopped classmates from teasing Pei Yujing, then let Deng Xiang and Ge Hao briefly enter Class 3 to show a girl something that frightened her.
• Zhang Chi persuaded Han Wennuan to tutor a younger student for ten yuan a day, while Xin Youling discussed a middle school classmate’s kiss with Chen Siyu.
• Deng Xiang warned Zhang Chi in Class 8 to stop his scheme, and Wang Longlong let him in after accepting two hundred yuan from Zhao Xiaofeng.
• At the phone shop, Deng Xiang took Liang Sheng’s borrowed hundred yuan, beat him, and handed him a memory card so he could confront a girl who owed the shop owner money.
• Zhang Chi noticed Liang Sheng’s bruises and missing money, then took him and Duan Shigang to the phone shop, where Deng Xiang accused Liang Sheng of bringing people to block him.

Liang Sheng finally stood up to Deng Xiang with Zhang Chi and Duan Shigang, while Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong ate together and Zhao Xiaofeng prepared for the school performance. The chapter left Zhao Xiaofeng cornered by Yin Yu, who questioned why he kept choosing such clueless lackeys.

• Duan Shigang reminded Liang Sheng of the humiliation he had suffered in middle school, prompting Liang Sheng to admit that Deng Xiang had stolen money he borrowed from Zhang Chi.
• Zhang Chi charged Deng Xiang, but Ge Hao covered him with a sack and Deng Xiang knocked him down; Liang Sheng chose to fight back and asked Zhang Chi to lend him another five hundred yuan.
• Duan Shigang joined the fight after Liu Chuandao ran away, and Deng Xiang's lackeys swarmed the group.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong ate fried skewers at Hu Mei's Spicy Hot Pot, where Xue Yuantong asked for a hundred yuan to research remote-control cars and Jiang Ning refused.
• Zhao Xiaofeng praised Qi Tianheng's upcoming performance and saw him off, then met Yin Yu, who asked why he kept recruiting lackeys with such low emotional intelligence.

Zhang Chi and Duan Shigang hid the cause of their injuries from Director Wang, while Yin Yu let Zhao Xiaofeng introduce her to his troublesome school associates. Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong’s walk brought them to Deng Xiang and Ge Hao smoking by the magnolia tree, where Jiang Ning told them to smoke elsewhere.

• Zhang Chi and Duan Shigang entered Class 8 bruised, and Zhang Chi claimed his injuries came from falling after drinking rather than a fight.
• Director Wang questioned Zhang Chi, but Zhang Chi refused to tell him the truth, and Duan Shigang warned him to accept punishment if the details came out.
• Chen Siyu remembered that she and Bai Yuxia had known Jiang Ning before Xue Yuantong appeared, then Zhao Xiaofeng brought Yin Yu to meet his school associates.
• Deng Xiang and Ge Hao bragged to Yin Yu about their influence and described using intimidation to undermine boys they saw as romantic rivals.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong reached the western garden, where Jiang Ning saw Deng Xiang and Ge Hao smoking beside a magnolia tree and told them to smoke somewhere else.

Jiang Ning drove Ge Hao and his group out of the Small Garden, then rejected Yin Yu’s attempt to befriend him. Later, Dong Qingfeng brought fruit to the teachers’ office, where An Chan asked him about Class 8’s discipline.

• Ge Hao charged at Jiang Ning but was kicked into the Grass Carp, and Deng Xiang led the others away.
• Yin Yu invited Jiang Ning to befriend her, but he exposed her secret, threatened to hit her, and sent her away.
• Director Wang caught Ge Hao’s group with a phone and took them to the Security Department.
• Jiang Ning chatted with Xue Yuantong and replied to Xue Chuchu’s spring photo with a teasing message.
• Dong Qingfeng brought fruit to the teachers, and Guo Ran asked him to pass a box to Jiang Ning.
• An Chan asked Dong Qingfeng whether Class 8’s discipline had always been chaotic, and Guo Ran challenged her description.

Jiang Ning defeated Shang Zhengyu at Boundless Fighting and collected the prize money, then spent the evening with Tongtong and their friends. Meanwhile, Dong Qingfeng helped An Chan join Class 8’s chat, where Liu Chuandao mistook her for a student pretending to be a teacher.

• Jiang Ning knocked Shang Zhengyu down twice during their match, winning five thousand yuan and leaving Shang Zhengyu humiliated.
• Xue Yuantong teased Yang Fei about his goat and argued with Teacher Qian about games and elderly scooters.
• Xue Yuantong gathered friends for a ranked game, where Xue Chuchu played support for Chen Siyu.
• Dong Qingfeng privately advised An Chan about handling Class 8 and arranged for Wang Longlong to add her to the class chat.
• Class 8 students speculated about An Chan’s profile picture, and Liu Chuandao refused to believe she was their biology teacher.

The 8th Class chat punished Liu Chuandao for insulting Teacher An Chan, while Jiang Ning spent the day with Xue Chuchu and Xue Yuantong before taking Tongtong to sell fish. The chapter left them joking together on the River Dam after Jiang Ning made Yin Yu tumble from her Electric Bike.

• Teacher An Chan joined the 8th Class Family, and Wang Longlong identified her as a genuine teacher, prompting Liu Chuandao to send two red packets while the class mocked him through his supposed younger cousin.
• Chen Siyu played games with Xue Chuchu and helped Xin Youling troubleshoot a memory card, but forgot to show Bai Yuxia her masterpiece.
• Jiang Ning ate breakfast with Xue Chuchu, then woke Xue Yuantong and recruited her to sell fish by offering her fifty yuan in wages.
• Jiang Ning asked Shen Qing'e for Black Carp, but she claimed her fish farm had gone bankrupt, and he later discovered Tongtong had hidden two hundred yuan in a Coke can.
• Yin Yu suggested they use lower-quality fish, then lost power while trying to ride her Electric Bike up the River Dam slope as Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong reached the top.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong watched a wedding convoy and joked about wedding candy and where Jiang Ning's heart was.

Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong stopped a wedding convoy from being extorted and later sold fried fish at a busy street market. Yin Yu’s attempt to take chicks and her friends’ smugness backfired, while Xue Yuantong’s fragrant fish drew a crowd and outshone the neighboring sushi seller.

• Jiang Ning kicked the shabby road bully aside, took back the wedding convoy’s carton of Zhonghua, and continued into town with Xue Yuantong.
• Yin Yu bought two chicks from Zhang Butcher, but Teacher Qian accused her of stealing them and later received one hundred yuan in compensation.
• Yin Yu tried to confront Zhang Butcher, but Overlord Dog scared her away, and Captain Zhou left without intervening.
• Lin Zida mocked Yin Yu, who said she relied on her parents and claimed she saw no difference between Xue Yuantong and the locals.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong set up their fried-fish stall beside a young woman’s sushi stall, and Xue Yuantong refused to indulge a rude customer.
• Xue Yuantong added sesame seeds to the fish, drew a crowd, and sold out a wokful while the sushi seller watched in dismay.

An Chan visited Nini’s night-market stall, where she met Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong and helped them raise their fried-fish prices. After the stall’s profitable day, Xue Yuantong celebrated at home, while Chen Siyu tricked Bai Yuxia into opening a photo of Jiang Ning’s pet turtle.

• An Chan found Nini’s sushi stall and met Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong, then praised their fried fish and encouraged Xue Yuantong to raise its prices.
• Xue Yuantong raised the prices, and the stall continued selling to customers despite their complaints.
• An Chan and Nini compared their work as teachers, and Jiang Ning covered for Xue Yuantong when An Chan questioned how she knew An Chan’s teaching was impressive.
• Xue Yuantong calculated a profit of 2,620 yuan, then bragged to Aunt Gu, who countered that she had earned a large commission by securing a business deal.
• Jiang Ning teased Xue Yuantong at home while Chen Siyu messaged Bai Yuxia and persuaded her to open a photo of Jiang Ning’s little turtle.

As Qingming Festival approached, An Chan announced that Yuzhou No.4 Middle School would take Class 8 on a school-funded spring outing to a neighboring city and told students to contact their parents. The class misunderstood her instructions and erupted into jokes, leaving An Chan trying to manage their chaos.

• Jiang Ning watched the students struggle with their studies while Guo Kunnan, Wang Longlong, Yin Yu, and Chen Qian argued about hard work, discipline, and exams.
• An Chan entered Class 8 with the roster, but the students continued teasing one another as she struggled to assert her authority.
• An Chan announced the spring outing, and Xiao Shaoxiong mistakenly presented it as academic research before Cui Yu revealed it was a trip to have fun and learn.
• An Chan explained that the school would pay for the outing and that students had to notify their parents, while Chen Siyu asked how to become a genius.
• When An Chan told Huang Yuzhu to call his mother, he called out "Mom" in class, and Xin Youling clarified that he was supposed to phone her.

Xue Yuantong, Xue Chuchu, and Jiang Ning set out for No.4 Middle School’s study trip to a zoo amusement park in Yun City. As the students boarded the buses, their classmates and Teacher An Chan traded jokes and reminisced about school outings.

• Xue Yuantong hurried Jiang Ning to breakfast, teased him over his late start, and imagined becoming a beauty before he arrived and stole her stool.
• At breakfast, Xue Chuchu warned Jiang Ning about his fast electric bike, and he revealed that he knew she had read private notes on Tongtong’s tablet.
• Xue Yuantong told Jiang Ning that the study trip would go to a new zoo amusement park in Yun City, where she hoped to see a tiger for the first time.
• No.4 Middle School’s first- and second-year students gathered for the trip’s launch, and Principal Yu announced that the outing had officially begun.
• As students boarded the buses, third-year students watched enviously while Zhong Huai accepted Meng Gui’s invitation to join his group that night.
• Teacher An Chan chatted with Class 8, answered Guo Kunnan’s question about sitting beside him, and refused Liu Chuandao before joining in the class’s jokes.

Yuzhou No.4 Middle School’s students traveled by bus and train to Yun City for their study tour, sharing snacks, playing cards, and performing along the way. The chapter ended with Xue Yuantong waking to find Chen Siyu playing cards with Jiang Ning and confronting her over the snacks.

• An Chan led the students from school to the train station, where they boarded the study tour train for Yun City.
• Jiang Ning played Fight the Landlord with Bai Yuxia and Chen Siyu while Dong Jiayi admired the jade Koi Chen Siyu said Jiang Ning had made for her.
• Chen Siyu and Bai Yuxia shared their snacks with Jiang Ning, while Wei Xiuyuan tried and failed to tempt Dong Jiayi with a Konjac Snack.
• Huang Zhongfei sang “Why Not?” and drew cheers from Dong Jiayi and other students, leaving Wei Xiuyuan, Shen Xu, and Xiao Shaoxiong dismayed.
• Xue Yuantong woke and found Chen Siyu playing cards with Jiang Ning; Chen Siyu apologized, and Xue Yuantong told her to give her fewer reasons to apologize in the future.

Yuzhou No.4 Middle School arrived at Yun City Wildlife Zoo, where Jiang Ning revisited memories of nearly visiting with Pei Yujing before leading Xue Yuantong and the twins around on a sightseeing bicycle. After Gu Tai and Luo Jun crashed while racing and tried to blame Pei Yujing, Jiang Ning intervened, and Xue Yuantong confronted Xu Yan when she demanded an explanation.

• Yu Wen offered three hundred yuan for someone to carry her bag and stay nearby, and Old Ox Huang Yuzhu got the job.
• Yang Sheng spun the Class 8 flag into a swirl of cherry blossoms, and the students passed a group of elementary school students on their way to the zoo.
• Jiang Ning remembered his almost-visit to the zoo with Pei Yujing, then Shan Qingrong led Xue Yuantong and her companions through the VIP entrance and gave them a flower-decorated sightseeing bicycle.
• Xue Yuantong fed carrots to the free-roaming antelopes and argali, then Jiang Ning raced Gu Tai and Luo Jun on the zoo roads until the pair crashed.
• Gu Tai and Luo Jun blamed Pei Yujing for their crash, but Jiang Ning challenged them and warned Luo Jun that he could summon Pang Jiao.
• Xu Yan demanded an explanation from Jiang Ning and his companions, and Xue Yuantong stood up on the flower cart to challenge her.

Xue Yuantong defended Pei Yujing against Xu Yan, refusing to explain herself and escalating the conflict between their classes. Xu Yan tried to confront Pei Yujing through Class 3’s monitor but was rejected, while Guo Kunnan’s cheerful greeting left him worried that Xu Yan now disliked him.

• Xue Yuantong told Xu Yan that Pei Yujing had been framed by Class 11 students and refused to explain further, prompting Xu Yan to leave with Gu Tai and Luo Jun.
• Xu Yuantong dismissed concerns about offending Xu Yan, and she and Jiang Ning joked about having enemies.
• Xu Yan decided to demand an explanation from Pei Yujing and approached Chen Shuaishuai, but he refused to summon Pei Yujing and asserted Class 3’s status over Class 11.
• Gu Tai provoked Chen Shuaishuai into criticizing Class 11, leaving Xu Yan stranded as Chen Shuaishuai walked away.
• Guo Kunnan waved to Xu Yan from the Sightseeing Bicycle, but she coldly rejected his greeting, leaving him afraid she now held a grudge against him.

Jiang Ning and his classmates toured the zoo, then rode the terrifying Mystic Bird Roller Coaster. After the ride left Chen Siyu dizzy, Jiang Ning used his technique to clear her head, while Bai Yuxia and Yang Sheng watched.

• Xue Yuantong, Chen Siyu, Jiang Ning, and Chen Qian watched the tigers and discussed how they compared with dogs, while Chen Qian corrected Xiao Shaoxiong’s claim that Northeast Tigers were stronger than Siberian Tigers.
• Jiang Ning drove the group past the Leopard and Lion Zones to the amusement park, where they met Bai Yuxia and Yang Sheng and joined the Mystic Bird Roller Coaster queue.
• Du Chuan tried photographing the students in line, but Dong Jiayi, Lan Zichen, and Xue Yuantong rebuked him over his pictures.
• Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong rode in the middle while Chen Siyu and her sister chose the last row, then the coaster plunged, flipped, and passed beneath a waterfall, terrifying many of the students.
• Jiang Ning lifted the pale Xue Yuantong from her seat and helped the dizzy Chen Siyu by pressing an electrified finger to her brow until she recovered.
• Bai Yuxia looked away after watching Jiang Ning treat Chen Siyu, and Yang Sheng teased Chen Siyu when she continued making pleased sounds after Jiang Ning stopped.

Xin Youling and her classmates explored the zoo while Jiang Ning and his friends visited the animal exhibits. After Jiang Ning woke the sleeping panda, it followed his request and gave Xue Yuantong a stalk of sugar cane, leaving the students astonished.

• Xin Youling mediated Du Chuan's argument with Tantan and talked with him about why he took photographs of people.
• Yan Tianpeng cut the roller-coaster line, Zhang Chi followed him to the front, and Shang Caiwei decided to ride despite being afraid.
• Pang Jiao was stopped from riding after the scale alarmed, while Zhang Chi and Chai Wei paired up for the coaster amid their classmates' plotting.
• Jiang Ning's group visited the red panda and otter exhibits, where Jiang Ning briefly picked up a red panda and an otter knocked Xiao Shaoxiong's phone into the water.
• Jiang Ning used Spiritual Energy to wake the sleeping panda, which came outside to eat bamboo and then brought Xue Yuantong a stalk of sugar cane.
• Xue Yuantong walked away with the panda's sugar cane, and Zhong Huai froze in disbelief when she explained where it came from.

Wei Xiuyuan gave Dong Jiayi a panda plushie, and Jiang Ning’s group won several more at the claw machines before discovering a zoo notice offering a reward for a missing red panda. As Zhang Chi and Yan Tianpeng searched the grounds, the escaped Xiao Jiu ended up eating watermelon at Jiang Ning’s barbecue picnic.

• Wei Xiuyuan caught a panda plushie for Dong Jiayi, and his pursuit progress reached 99.99%.
• Jiang Ning used the claw machine to win a Backpack Panda Cub, while Bai Yuxia gave extra panda plushies to Han Wennuan and Zhong Huai.
• Xue Yuantong urged Jiang Ning to find the escaped red panda Xiao Jiu, but the group stopped to arrange lunch and make a barbecue by a stream.
• Duan Shigang drew a crowd by claiming a female student had fainted, and Gai Shixun screamed when he reached the supposed victim.
• Zhang Chi misdirected other students, then recruited Yan Tianpeng to search for Xiao Jiu and chased the red panda toward Jiang Ning’s picnic.
• Zhang Chi found Xiao Jiu eating watermelon beside Jiang Ning’s group, and Xue Yuantong insisted the red panda was her dog.