Chapter Summaries

After Liu Yong reported the disappearance of his safe, Lin Zhengran and Jiang Jingshi shared a close moment while cooking and then heard Sister Wang propose giving them her studio. Lin Zhengran and Jiang Jingshi instead invited Wang Lan to partner with them, and their new company, Zhengshi Media, was preliminarily formed a week later, with formal establishment expected in a month.

• Liu Yong called the police after discovering his safe and files were missing, but the officers suspected an insider and found little to investigate.
• Jiang Jingshi burned her finger while cooking with Lin Zhengran, who treated it, and they shared food using the same chopsticks.
• Sister Wang and her boyfriend entered the kitchen and saw Jiang Jingshi feeding Lin Zhengran before asking to discuss the studio.
• Sister Wang offered to give Jiang Jingshi her studio, but Lin Zhengran and Jiang Jingshi proposed partnering with her in their planned new company.
• A week later, Lin Zhengran, Jiang Jingshi, and Wang Lan had preliminarily established Zhengshi Media, with Wang Lan taking charge of the music branch and holding twenty percent of its shares.

After returning to school, Lin Zhengran reassured the girls who had worried about his absence and resumed his ordinary routine. On Saturday, Han Wenwen set out for her promised date with him, while Little He Qing discovered the surprisingly adult contents of a romance novel Han Wenwen left behind.

• Lin Zhengran told Han Wenwen, Jiang Xueli, and Little He Qing that he had been away helping resolve trouble with Jiang Xueli's studio, and reassured them that he was healthy.
• Jiang Xueli told Lin Zhengran her song and its ranking had returned online and remained in first place.
• Fang Meng checked Lin Zhengran's pulse at Jiang Qian's request and confirmed he was exceptionally healthy.
• On Saturday morning, Han Wenwen dressed up and left the dorm to meet Lin Zhengran for their promised date.
• Han Wenwen gave Little He Qing a romance novel before leaving, and He Qing blushed as she discovered its adult content.

Han Wenwen and Lin Zhengran went on a date around the city, but after she ate too much, her stomach trouble sent them home early. Before catching a taxi, they bought a giant dog plush that Han Wenwen thought resembled Lin Zhengran.

• Little He Qing stopped reading an erotic book about Lin Zhengran and fell asleep, dreaming about him for the first time in an adult way.
• Han Wenwen interrupted a girl trying to befriend Lin Zhengran at the school gate, then teased him about attracting girls from other schools.
• Han Wenwen showed Lin Zhengran a list of more than a hundred date spots and began their outing at an arcade before taking him to an amusement park.
• Han Wenwen ate and sampled too many snacks, including ice cream, and made repeated trips to the restroom with a stomachache.
• Lin Zhengran agreed to take Han Wenwen home, and they bought a giant dog plush that she said looked like him.

Lin Zhengran and Han Wenwen returned to the rental house, where Han Wenwen dressed in stockings hoping to tease him while he showered. After Lin Zhengran came out and praised her outfit, she shyly offered to blow-dry his hair, and he let her.

• Lin Zhengran brought Han Wenwen and Little Fox back to the rental house after buying medicine and food, then went to shower while she prepared hot water and took her medicine.
• Han Wenwen found a pair of stockings and changed into them with short denim shorts and an oversized sweater, imagining Lin Zhengran's reaction.
• Lin Zhengran came out of the bathroom, noticed Han Wenwen's stockings, and told her they looked good but she should only wear them at home.
• Han Wenwen offered to blow-dry Lin Zhengran's hair, and he handed her the hair dryer.

Lin Zhengran discussed his new company with Han Wenwen while she dried his hair, and Han Wenwen eagerly declared she would support him and become his secretary. The chapter left them looking at Jiang Jingshi’s message asking Lin Zhengran which earrings she should buy, while Han Wenwen grew jealous.

• Han Wenwen dried Lin Zhengran’s hair on her bed, touching his chest and stomach while teasing him.
• Lin Zhengran read Jiang Jingshi’s message about signing company documents next week and discussed Jiang Xueli’s potential Video Channel account with her.
• Han Wenwen learned that Lin Zhengran had partnered with Jiang Jingshi to start a company and offered him her savings and future support.
• Han Wenwen asked to visit the company and declared she would become Lin Zhengran’s capable secretary.
• Jiang Jingshi sent Lin Zhengran pictures of two pairs of earrings and asked which looked better, making Han Wenwen jealous.

Jiang Jingshi considered testing Lin Zhengran’s business skills so he could help manage Jiang Corporation, while Han Wenwen imagined how she and the others would divide household responsibilities if Lin became head of their future household. Han Wenwen finished grooming Lin and left him responsible for major family matters.

• Jiang Jingshi replied to a work message about a difficult client and considered testing Lin Zhengran’s business abilities at their next meeting.
• Han Wenwen complained that Lin Zhengran was messaging Jiang Jingshi, He Qing, and Jiang Xueli instead of focusing on her.
• Han Wenwen trimmed Lin Zhengran’s toenails and fingernails while insisting that she would handle his personal grooming from then on.
• Han Wenwen proposed that He Qing manage household matters and that Jiang Xueli take the lead in educating their future children.
• Han Wenwen claimed responsibility for serving Lin in intimate daily tasks and said he would handle the household’s major matters as its head.

Lin Zhengran and Han Wenwen spent the evening preparing for bed at the Rental House, where Han Wenwen eagerly looked after him and hinted at wanting more intimacy. They settled into bed in the dark, with Han Wenwen restless and clearly not ready to sleep.

• Lin Zhengran called Lin Xiaoli and Lin Yingjun, assured them nothing was wrong, and agreed to visit home next week, where guests would be waiting.
• Han Wenwen showed Lin Zhengran the expensive blue quilt she had bought for his bed and suggested they go to bed early.
• Han Wenwen brushed Lin Zhengran's teeth, then secretly used his toothbrush herself until he caught her.
• Han Wenwen insisted on washing Lin Zhengran's feet, but he poured out the water himself and sent her to bed.
• Lin Zhengran and Han Wenwen lay beneath their separate quilts, and Han Wenwen turned off the light while anticipating the night ahead.

Lin Zhengran spent the night with Han Wenwen, who admitted she feared he would stop wanting her and had tried to make herself useful through vows and caretaking. He reassured her that her insight and support made her unique to him, and she asked him to hold her.

• Han Wenwen gave Lin Zhengran pajama pants and playfully tried to reach into his blanket as they settled down for the night.
• Lin Zhengran caught Han Wenwen's hand and asked about her fear of sleeping alone, prompting her to speak about painful memories from childhood.
• Han Wenwen confessed she was shy and afraid Lin Zhengran might stop wanting her if she stopped being proactive.
• Han Wenwen explained that brushing his teeth and washing his feet had been her way of trying to become useful and secure a place in his heart.
• Lin Zhengran told Han Wenwen that her ability to understand people made her unique and promised she would never be replaced.
• Han Wenwen teared up and asked Lin Zhengran to hug her.

Han Wenwen spent the night cuddling with Lin Zhengran, then kept him in bed with her the next morning before they returned to school. A week later, the Little New Star Chart ended with Jiang Xueli in first place, and Jiang Jingshi planned to build a team to promote her.

• Lin Zhengran let Han Wenwen share his quilt, and she asked him to confirm that she was special to him before kissing his cheek and falling asleep in his arms.
• Han Wenwen dreamed that Lin Zhengran had found her in childhood and stayed by her side as they grew up together.
• On Sunday, Han Wenwen refused to let Lin Zhengran get out of bed, and they stayed under the quilt until past two in the afternoon before eating and returning to school.
• The Little New Star Chart ended a week later with Jiang Xueli far ahead in first place.
• Jiang Jingshi planned to form a team for Jiang Xueli, make music videos and new songs, and promote her heavily.

Lin Zhengran spent Saturday morning with Jiang Xueli, whose worries about their new relationship eased when he held her hand and reassured her about her music career. They ate breakfast together and planned to visit a barber, while Lin Zhengran encouraged her to form a singing team and pursue a concert.

• Lin Zhengran arranged to meet Jiang Xueli at the sports field and found her waiting early, dressed for their outing.
• Jiang Xueli worried that she and Lin Zhengran had become distant, but he held her hand after stopping her from crossing the road on a yellow light.
• Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli bought breakfast and discussed Sister Wang's plans for Jiang Xueli to film a solo MV and possibly form a team.
• Lin Zhengran encouraged Jiang Xueli to build a team, release music, and aim for a concert, saying he would help her succeed.
• Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli reminisced over their childhood habits while sharing soup dumplings, then agreed he would accompany her to get a haircut.

Lin Zhengran took Jiang Xueli to report at the newly renovated Zhengshi Music Media Co., Ltd., formed by merging Wang Lan’s studio with Jiang Jingshi’s. Meanwhile, Han Wenwen envied He Qing’s arrangement of letting Lin Zhengran manage her money, and the chapter ended with a guard asking Lin Zhengran for his pass.

• Lin Zhengran explained to Jiang Xueli that Wang Lan’s studio had merged with Jiang Jingshi’s, with Wang Lan retaining a smaller share of the company.
• He Qing told Han Wenwen that Lin Zhengran held her money, then asked him for one hundred yuan to buy snacks and received it.
• Han Wenwen decided she also wanted to give Lin Zhengran her money and ask him for spending money.
• Han Wenwen and He Qing visited the new Share Potato Bar and rushed inside to buy snacks.
• Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli arrived at the renovated Zhengshi Music Media Co., Ltd., where the guard let Jiang Xueli in and asked Lin Zhengran whether he had a pass.

Lin Zhengran brought Jiang Xueli to the music company, where the staff treated him as a general manager and he explained that he had become a major shareholder in Zhengshi Company. Jiang Jingshi arrived after hearing that Lin Zhengran had come early, and she prepared to begin the business discussion with him, Jiang Xueli, and Wang Lan.

• Pan Lin hurried out to receive Lin Zhengran as General Manager Lin, leaving Jiang Xueli confused about his status.
• Wang Lan paused a meeting with more than a hundred singers to greet Lin Zhengran, and told them he would train them that afternoon.
• Pan Lin showed Lin Zhengran his new office, where he explained to Jiang Xueli that he had invested his expertise for shares in Zhengshi Company and promised to raise profits by more than half within six months.
• Lin Zhengran told Jiang Xueli that Zhengshi Company had three subsidiaries—Zhengshi Sports, Zhengshi Music, and Zhengshi Live—and that he would train her individually.
• Jiang Jingshi arrived, reprimanded Pan Lin for failing to receive Lin Zhengran early, then joined Lin Zhengran, Jiang Xueli, and Wang Lan to discuss business.

Jiang Jingshi, Lin Zhengran, and Wang Lan discussed company benefits, music teams, and a movie contract for Jiang Xueli’s song “Whale,” then arranged Jiang Xueli’s MV shoot. After Jiang Jingshi admitted her ankle hurt, Lin Zhengran examined and massaged it, and she agreed to follow his advice.

• Jiang Jingshi, Lin Zhengran, and Wang Lan discussed singer benefits, plans for three music teams, and concentrating resources on Jiang Xueli’s group.
• Jiang Jingshi offered Jiang Xueli a contract to use “Whale” as the ending theme for an unreleased movie, and Jiang Xueli agreed after Lin Zhengran approved it.
• Jiang Jingshi arranged indoor and outdoor MV filming for Jiang Xueli, while Lin Zhengran volunteered to accompany her for the outdoor shoot.
• Pan Lin left Jiang Jingshi and Lin Zhengran alone, and Jiang Jingshi rested in Lin Zhengran’s office after taking off her heels.
• Lin Zhengran examined and massaged Jiang Jingshi’s sore ankle, warned her to rest and avoid high heels, and Jiang Jingshi promised to listen to him.

Lin Zhengran coached the company’s singers while Jiang Jingshi watched him grow close to Jiang Xueli and left for a meeting at Jiang Corporation. As she ate instant noodles in her car, Jiang Jingshi remembered meeting Lin Zhengran as a child and how he had helped her when she was lost and hungry.

• Lin Zhengran reviewed the singers’ profiles, then watched Jiang Xueli film the music video for “You Are My Star” and went with her to lunch.
• Jiang Jingshi and Pan Lin saw Lin Zhengran leave with Jiang Xueli, and Jiang Jingshi returned to her office without joining them for lunch.
• Lin Zhengran began coaching the singers while Jiang Jingshi left for a meeting at Jiang Corporation and asked Pan Lin to buy her instant noodles afterward.
• As Jiang Jingshi ate the noodles in the car, she recalled how she had met Lin Zhengran as a child at kindergarten.
• Jiang Jingshi remembered getting lost in a residential complex, where Lin Zhengran had guided her back to her mother’s car and bought her braised beef noodles.

Jiang Jingshi recalled how a childhood meeting with Lin Zhengran had led her to recognize him years later as the boy tied to her memories and her younger sister’s Childhood Sweetheart. After discussing fate with Pan Lin, she returned to Zhengshi Music, where Lin Zhengran was impressing the singers with his guidance.

• As a child, Jiang Jingshi shared instant noodles with her mother and watched Lin Zhengran leave, an encounter that later shaped her fondness for the food.
• After learning that Lin Zhengran was her younger sister’s classmate, Jiang Jingshi investigated his past and realized he was the boy from her childhood.
• Jiang Jingshi told Pan Lin that she would rest at home that night, then asked whether a three-year age gap and fate mattered; Pan Lin said she believed Jiang Jingshi and Lin Zhengran were destined to meet.
• Lin Zhengran taught Zhengshi Music’s singers practical techniques and gave them individual coaching, quickly earning their admiration.
• Jiang Jingshi and Pan Lin arrived at Zhengshi Music as Lin Zhengran continued working with the singers.

Lin Zhengran praised Jiang Jingshi’s earrings before taking Jiang Xueli home after her MV shoot, then accompanied her to get her hair cut. When Jiang Xueli’s underwear clasp broke at the barber shop, Lin Zhengran bought her a replacement, and they resumed their awkwardly affectionate evening together.

• Jiang Jingshi returned to Zhengshi Music and watched Lin Zhengran coach employees before he praised the thin earrings she had bought on his recommendation.
• Jiang Xueli finished filming her MV, and Lin Zhengran took her from the company to eat and then visit a barber shop.
• Lin Zhengran accidentally broke the clasp on Jiang Xueli’s underwear while indicating how short she should cut her hair, so he lent her his coat and went to buy her a replacement.
• Jiang Xueli changed into the new underwear in a quiet alley while Lin Zhengran kept watch, then helped him put his coat back on.
• Lin Zhengran caught Jiang Xueli’s broken underwear when it fell and remarked that it was warm, embarrassing her.

Lin Zhengran accompanied Jiang Xueli to dispose of her damaged underwear and get her hair cut, while Jiang Xueli grew jealous after hearing that girls had asked for his contact information. Jiang Xueli got a long haircut and considered dyeing her hair blonde after graduation, but it was nearly her dormitory curfew.

• Jiang Xueli threw away her damaged underwear and carefully covered it in the trash before returning to the Barber Shop with Lin Zhengran.
• Jiang Xueli worried that people at the underwear shop had judged Lin Zhengran, and he told her that the shop owner had praised him and several girls had asked for his WeChat.
• Jiang Xueli became jealous and made Lin Zhengran hold her hand, then thanked him for buying underwear for her and promised to care for him for life if he ever fell ill.
• A hairstylist suggested Jiang Xueli dye her hair blonde after graduation, and Jiang Xueli decided to ask Lin Zhengran what he thought.
• The hairstylist cut Jiang Xueli's hair to halfway down her waist as it became nearly nine forty, close to the Female Dormitory's usual curfew.

After getting her hair cut, Jiang Xueli rode back toward school with Lin Zhengran and learned that the dorms had already closed. Lin Zhengran planned to get a room nearby, and Jiang Xueli, after misunderstanding his intentions, asked to stay outside with him instead of returning to her dorm.

• Jiang Xueli got her double ponytails cut shorter, and Lin Zhengran told her the style looked good.
• Jiang Xueli asked Lin Zhengran about dyeing her hair blonde after graduation, and he agreed to go with her.
• The taxi driver told Jiang Xueli that the dorms closed at ten, and she panicked about where she would sleep.
• Lin Zhengran said he planned to get a room near school, while Jiang Xueli mistakenly thought he was hinting that they would spend the night together.
• Lin Zhengran offered to ask the Female Dormitory manager to let Jiang Xueli in, but she tugged at his pant leg and said she did not want to go back.

Jiang Xueli nervously stayed overnight at a hotel with Lin Zhengran, believing they might take their relationship further, while he reassured her that they would move at her pace. They reached the room and prepared to shower, leaving Jiang Xueli flustered and dependent on Lin Zhengran for help.

• Jiang Xueli explained that she wanted to stay with Lin Zhengran rather than return alone to the dorm, and he took her hand and led her to a hotel.
• Jiang Xueli pointed out an adult goods store and asked Lin Zhengran to buy protection, but he teased her and said they would only sleep.
• Lin Zhengran told Jiang Xueli not to agree to intimacy just to please him and to wait until she was ready; Jiang Xueli admitted she wanted to take their next step by hugging.
• Lin Zhengran checked them into a hotel room with Jiang Xueli and told her to shower first.
• Jiang Xueli could not find the disposable shampoo and body wash, so Lin Zhengran got up to help her.

Lin Zhengran and Jiang Xueli took turns getting ready in their room, while Jiang Xueli grew flustered thinking about their planned hug and dealing with several bathroom mishaps. After she put on Lin Zhengran’s shirt and jacket, they both blushed at seeing each other after her shower.

• Lin Zhengran gave Jiang Xueli a set of toiletries, and she locked herself in the bathroom to shower while he replied to He Qing and Han Wenwen.
• Jiang Xueli thought about how she might take the initiative with Lin Zhengran and accidentally muttered her thoughts aloud, then denied saying anything when he asked.
• Lin Zhengran told Jiang Xueli that they would share the bath towel, and she realized she had soaked all her clothes by leaving them on the toilet.
• Lin Zhengran gave Jiang Xueli his shirt and jacket so she could dress, and she tied the jacket around her waist like a skirt.
• Jiang Xueli came out to dry her hair as Lin Zhengran prepared to shower, and they both blushed when they noticed each other.