Recaps

Jiang Linyuan reunited with Su Muzhi, who teased him and warned that Liu Tingting was searching for him. After Lin Yilin learned Jiang had asked Liu Tingting out, the two agreed to attend a Student Union gathering that weekend, and Su Muzhi seemed pleased by their plans.

• Su Muzhi sat beside Lin Yilin and flirted with her until Jiang Linyuan returned and told her not to tease the junior.
• Jiang Linyuan shoved fries at Su Muzhi, while Lin Yilin nervously insisted that she and Jiang were innocent and introduced herself.
• Su Muzhi told Jiang that Liu Tingting had been looking for him and warned that she could easily find him at their school.
• Su Muzhi revealed that Jiang had asked Liu Tingting out, surprising Lin Yilin, who scolded Jiang for being tricked by a player.
• Jiang Linyuan told Lin Yilin about the Student Union gathering that weekend, and both agreed to attend as Su Muzhi smiled brightly.

Liu Tingting learned Jiang Linyuan’s class schedule and planned to confront him, while Jiang attended a Student Union barbecue with Lin Yilin and Shen Wanyu. Su Muzhi arrived at her family’s villa, and Jiang was left grilling as Shen Wanyu ignored her.

• Liu Tingting thanked Su for Jiang Linyuan’s class schedule and decided to wait outside his classroom on Monday.
• At a Student Union gathering, Jiang Linyuan grilled with Lin Yilin and Zhang Shuo, then criticized department heads for failing to do their work.
• Shen Wanyu appeared, and Jiang quickly praised her leadership before asking Zhang Shuo to leave and meet his department’s new members.
• Shen Wanyu warned Lin Yilin to keep a safe distance from Jiang, then explained she was concerned he would tease her.
• Su Muzhi arrived at the barbecue and revealed that the villa belonged to her family; Jiang traded barbs with her while Shen Wanyu told him to focus on grilling and ignore her.

At a Student Union barbecue, Jiang Linyuan joked with Shen Wanyu, Su Muzhi, and Lin Yilin before turning his attention to freshman Yu Songsong. He decided to learn more about Yu Songsong through Su Muzhi, who warned him that Yu Songsong was rotten beneath her polished exterior.

• Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi traded jokes while Lin Yilin tried to rein them in and Shen Wanyu called them back to grilling.
• The Student Union members introduced themselves, and Jiang Linyuan noticed freshman Yu Songsong and her striking figure.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Zhang Shuo about Yu Songsong, claiming he wanted her help with English, but Zhang Shuo and Lin Yilin warned him not to bother her.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Su Muzhi for her opinion of Yu Songsong, and she described Yu Songsong as all shine on the outside and rotten within.

Jiang Linyuan tried to investigate Yu Songsong by singing with her and asking about her plans, then left after suspecting she might be an alchemist. When Xiao Yilin stayed away from the gathering for nearly twenty minutes, Jiang Linyuan hurried to check on her, while Shen Wanyu told Su Muzhi that Jiang Linyuan was more interesting than she was.

• Jiang Linyuan went to test Yu Songsong's tea skills but instead joined her and the others for karaoke.
• Jiang Linyuan sang a duet with Yu Songsong, then asked about her department and her plan to attend graduate school.
• Jiang Linyuan worried Yu Songsong might be an alchemist and exchanged WeChat contact information with her before slipping away.
• Jiang Linyuan learned Xiao Yilin had been gone to the bathroom for almost twenty minutes and rushed off to find her.
• Su Muzhi teased Shen Wanyu about Jiang Linyuan's interest in Xiao Yilin, and Shen Wanyu said Jiang Linyuan was more interesting than Su Muzhi.

Jiang Linyuan helped Lin Yilin get access to the restroom after confronting a woman who had locked herself inside. He then teased Lin Yilin about the woman threatening to ruin his reputation, and Lin Yilin offered him a job at her family’s company before realizing he was joking.

• Jiang Linyuan noticed Lin Yilin was pale and embarrassed, learned she had her period, and found the restroom occupied.
• Jiang Linyuan used Lin Yilin’s hairpin to pick the restroom lock and pulled the woman inside out so Lin Yilin could use it.
• The woman recognized Jiang Linyuan and fled, while Li Jianyi explained she was a new Organization Department member who had attended the same high school as Jiang Linyuan.
• Jiang Linyuan pretended the woman would ruin his reputation, and Lin Yilin earnestly offered him a job at her family’s company and began to suggest something about a girlfriend.
• Lin Yilin realized Jiang Linyuan had been teasing her, scolded him, and refused to help him get a job.

Lin Yilin headed back to the dorm with Jiang Linyuan, who teased her about liking him and asked her to help him pursue Yu Songsong. At the subway station, Lin Yilin asked who was prettier, and Jiang Linyuan jokingly declared himself the most handsome.

• Lin Yilin planned to return to the dorm early, but agreed to let Jiang Linyuan walk her to the subway station.
• Lin Yilin tried to start a conversation, and Jiang Linyuan teased her about carrying him and liking him.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Lin Yilin to become his wingwoman and help him find out things about Yu Songsong, and Lin Yilin reluctantly agreed to hear him out.
• Lin Yilin asked whether she or Yu Songsong was prettier, and Jiang Linyuan joked that he was the prettiest.

Jiang Linyuan attended an elective with Shen Wanyu, where the two were caught dozing and avoiding the professor’s questions. After class, Liu Tingting tried to rekindle their relationship, but Shen Wanyu intervened and warned her to leave with dignity.

• Jiang Linyuan found Shen Wanyu beside him in class, and she asked him to mark her present when the professor took attendance.
• Shen Wanyu fell asleep while Jiang Linyuan messaged Lin Yilin, and the professor called on them both before seating them in the front row.
• Liu Tingting confronted Jiang Linyuan after class, held his hand, and begged him to add her contact back.
• Shen Wanyu arrived, dispersed the watching students with a cold look, and told Liu Tingting to stop making a fool of herself and leave with dignity.

Liu Tingting confronted Jiang Linyuan about his feelings, then accepted that he would not return hers. In class, Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi agreed to work together over Yu Songsong before their elbowing and matching excuse disrupted the lecture.

• Su Muzhi stopped Liu Tingting from confronting Shen Wanyu, then led Shen Wanyu away to talk.
• Liu Tingting asked Jiang Linyuan why he had confessed and whether he liked anyone, but he said he was not responsible for her one-sided feelings.
• Su Muzhi sat beside Jiang Linyuan in class, apologized, and offered to help him with Yu Songsong.
• Jiang Linyuan agreed to Su Muzhi's help, and the two began elbowing each other while Shen Wanyu listened to the lecture.
• The professor called on Su Muzhi, who claimed the blackboard glare made it hard to see, prompting laughter and a question about whether she and Jiang Linyuan had rehearsed the excuse.

After class, Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi went to meet Lin Yilin at a milk tea shop, where the three teased one another about jealousy and Jiang’s plans involving Yu Songsong. The meeting ended with Jiang and Su trading increasingly personal insults while Lin Yilin watched.

• Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi bickered on their way to meet Lin Yilin, and Su grabbed Jiang’s chest before he pinched her cheeks in return.
• Lin Yilin felt jealous when she saw Su Muzhi with Jiang, but Jiang insisted he was not interested in his junior.
• Lin Yilin questioned why Jiang had asked her and Su Muzhi for help with Yu Songsong, and Su suggested he did not need to rely on Yu’s roommates.
• Jiang argued that men should not be labeled and told Lin Yilin that loyalty mattered most, then pinched her hand when she disagreed.
• Jiang and Su exchanged insults about each other’s appearance, leaving Su’s expression to turn as stern as Shen Wanyu’s.

Jiang Linyuan, Su Muzhi, and Lin Yilin discussed how to approach Yu Songsong, then got caught in the rain without umbrellas. Lin Yilin’s roommate Zhang Juntang arrived with umbrellas and awkwardly offered one to Jiang Linyuan, drawing Su Muzhi’s teasing.

• Jiang Linyuan assigned Lin Yilin to help meet Yu Songsong at an Academic Department study exchange and asked Su Muzhi to investigate Yu Songsong’s Little Red Book account.
• Rain began falling, and Jiang Linyuan, Su Muzhi, and Lin Yilin realized none of them had an umbrella.
• Lin Yilin asked her roommate to bring an extra umbrella for Su Muzhi, while Jiang Linyuan left his own ride arrangements uncertain.
• Zhang Juntang arrived with umbrellas and offered one to Lin Yilin, then shyly held another out to Jiang Linyuan.
• Su Muzhi teased Jiang Linyuan for supposedly pursuing Lin Yilin’s roommate, and Zhang Juntang apologized after noticing Su Muzhi beside him.

Jiang Linyuan met Lin Yilin’s shy roommate Zhang Juntang, who insisted she remembered him and worried about making him angry. As Lin Yilin walked Zhang Juntang back, she mentioned Jiang Linyuan’s interest in Yu Songsong and learned that Yu Songsong was also listed for Saturday’s volunteer event.

• Lin Yilin introduced Zhang Juntang to Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi, while Jiang teased the shy junior.
• When Jiang Linyuan tried to apologize, Zhang Juntang grabbed his sleeve and told him she had only denied knowing him because she feared he would get mad, adding that she remembered him.
• Lin Yilin and Zhang Juntang left together, and Zhang Juntang told Lin Yilin that Jiang Linyuan was a very nice person.
• Lin Yilin told Zhang Juntang that Jiang planned to pursue a girl named Yu Songsong, and Zhang Juntang said Yu Songsong was on the list for Saturday’s volunteer event.

Jiang Linyuan and Lin Yilin helped prepare a study experience-sharing session, where Yu Songsong volunteered to host. Jiang Linyuan avoided becoming her co-host, leaving the shy male volunteer to rehearse with her.

• Jiang Linyuan and Lin Yilin arrived to help the Academic Department prepare for the session, and Yu Songsong sat beside Jiang Linyuan.
• Yu Songsong asked whether Lin Yilin was Jiang Linyuan's girlfriend, and Lin Yilin denied it before Jiang Linyuan could answer.
• Lin Yilin grew jealous and sulked, while Jiang Linyuan teased her by pinching her hand and joking that she could make it up to him if he failed to win Yu Songsong over.
• The Academic Department members organized the session and asked for volunteers to host it.
• Yu Songsong volunteered as the female host, and a shy young man volunteered as the male host while Jiang Linyuan declined.

Jiang Linyuan checked Yu Songsong’s social media and concluded she was a depressed former top student who had likely cheated, not an alchemist. He then watched her manipulate her timid rehearsal partner and took her for a break, while the boy eyed him as a rival.

• Lin Yilin asked Jiang Linyuan whether he had skipped hosting because he needed her, and he teased her before leaving her to work.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Su Muzhi for information about Yu Songsong, then read her posts about academic pressure, cheating, and depression.
• Jiang Linyuan decided Yu Songsong had probably cheated to become top of her grade and watched her rehearse with an underclassman.
• Yu Songsong altered the script and dismissed her partner’s objections, then went with Jiang Linyuan to get water.
• Yu Songsong’s rehearsal partner insisted on joining them and watched Jiang Linyuan with reluctance and hostility.

Jiang Linyuan grew closer to Yu Songsong while Zhao Tongyu struggled to keep up with their conversation. Meanwhile, Qiao Shan asked Lin Yilin to help her contact Jiang, and Lin Yilin agreed.

• Jiang Linyuan walked with Yu Songsong and Zhao Tongyu to a milk tea shop, charming Yu Songsong with flirtatious conversation.
• Zhao Tongyu challenged Jiang Linyuan, who embarrassed him with a pointed remark about Yu Songsong’s hosting ability.
• Jiang Linyuan offered to buy drinks, but Zhao Tongyu refused, so Yu Songsong took Jiang Linyuan by the hand and led him away to order.
• Lin Yilin recognized Qiao Shan from the villa, and Qiao Shan apologized for her past behavior and asked to add Lin on WeChat.
• Lin Yilin refused to accept an apology on Jiang Linyuan’s behalf, but agreed to ask him about Qiao Shan’s apology and messaged him.

At the milk tea shop, Jiang Linyuan bonded with Yu Songsong as she complained about Zhao Tongyu and her roommates, then learned she wanted help with medical studies and graduate school recommendations. He agreed to connect her with a capable medical student, but a message from Lin Yilin revealed that Qiao Shan wanted to give him money.

• Yu Songsong ignored Zhao Tongyu’s attempt to impress her, teased him about affording milk tea, and left with Jiang Linyuan.
• Yu Songsong told Jiang Linyuan that Zhao Tongyu was difficult to work with and that her roommates mocked her in their private group chat.
• Jiang Linyuan offered to help Yu Songsong, and she said she wanted to contact a strong medical student for advice on classes, competitions, and graduate school recommendations.
• Jiang Linyuan agreed to send Yu Songsong the contact information of an impressive medical student.
• Jiang Linyuan saw Lin Yilin’s message saying that Qiao Shan wanted to give him money.

Jiang Linyuan arranged for Yu Songsong to consult his sister Jiang Zhiyao, then confronted Qiao Shan when she came to apologize for her past bullying. Lin Yilin comforted him by warming his chest, and she wondered whether Juntang had known about the bullying.

• Jiang Linyuan gave Yu Songsong the contact information of his sister Jiang Zhiyao, a senior medical student.
• Jiang Linyuan teased Lin Yilin, then asked her to point out Qiao Shan, the girl from the villa.
• Qiao Shan apologized for causing trouble, but Jiang Linyuan told her to leave and stop bothering people.
• Jiang Linyuan told Lin Yilin that he had beaten Qiao Shan after she bullied people at their high school.
• Lin Yilin placed both hands on Jiang Linyuan's chest to warm him and wondered whether Juntang had known about the bullying.

Jiang Linyuan replaced Zhao Tongyu as Yu Songsong’s hosting partner and began rehearsing with her. After a call with his sister Jiang Zhiyao about testing Yu Songsong’s academic attitude, he teased Lin Yilin by calling Jiang Zhiyao her sister-in-law, leaving Lin Yilin flustered.

• Yu Songsong pushed Zhao Tongyu to withdraw from their hosting partnership, and Zhao Tongyu agreed to find the Department Head and ask for a replacement.
• When Zhang Shuo asked for a new partner, Jiang Linyuan agreed to host with Yu Songsong, who was delighted.
• Jiang Linyuan and Yu Songsong rehearsed their script, and he handled her forgotten, changed, and stolen lines with his experience.
• Jiang Zhiyao called Jiang Linyuan to demand an explanation about Yu Songsong, and he asked her to test Yu Songsong’s professional skills and attitude toward studying.
• Lin Yilin eavesdropped on Jiang Linyuan’s call, and he teased her by calling Jiang Zhiyao her sister-in-law, making her blush and protest.

Jiang Linyuan joined Yu Songsong for a hospital volunteer event, where he ran into Lin Yilin and later Su Muzhi. He and Su Muzhi traded jokes about being future spouses and parents while helping a visitor find her way.

• Yu Songsong invited Jiang Linyuan to a hospital volunteer event, and he also asked Lin Yilin and Su Muzhi to join.
• At the hospital, Lin Yilin got flustered when Jiang Linyuan held her hand, then left with Zhang Juntang.
• Yu Songsong asked Jiang Linyuan to cover her area because her stomach hurt, but he refused and they went to their separate assignments.
• Su Muzhi arrived and teased Jiang Linyuan by claiming he was abandoning his future wife and child.
• Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi joked about medicine and an IUD until a visitor interrupted to ask for directions.

Jiang Linyuan ran into Su Muzhi at the hospital, where their teasing was interrupted by her mother’s friend, Vice Dean Yang. Their conversation hinted at Su Muzhi’s strained relationship with her mother, and she left Jiang wondering about her family situation.

• Su Muzhi told Jiang Linyuan she knew the hospital well because she had often been sick as a child.
• Su Muzhi teased Jiang Linyuan about taking her to Confucius’s hometown, then Vice Dean Yang recognized her and asked whether they were dating.
• Su Muzhi told Vice Dean Yang that Jiang was her friend and stopped Yang from questioning him about his plans.
• Jiang Linyuan learned that Vice Dean Yang was a close friend of Su Muzhi’s mother and joked with Su about joining her family.
• Su Muzhi suggested Jiang give her more consideration and warned that Yang would soon tell her mother he was spending time with her.

Yu Songsong arranged to meet Jiang Linyuan’s eccentric senior and intervened when a cleaner tried to make Zhang Juntang do work outside her volunteer duties. Meanwhile, Jiang Linyuan fielded Su Muzhi’s questions about Shen Wanyu until an angry cleaner came to recruit him for a task.

• Yu Songsong messaged the senior Jiang Linyuan recommended, agreed to meet at the school library on Sunday, and learned the senior wanted Jiang Linyuan to come too.
• Yu Songsong tried asking the senior and Jiang Linyuan how they knew each other, but received cryptic, terse replies.
• A cleaner berated Zhang Juntang and tried to make her clean, so Yu Songsong stepped in and told the cleaner Zhang Juntang had no obligation to help her.
• Jiang Linyuan joked with Su Muzhi while she questioned him about Shen Wanyu and offered to help him win Shen Wanyu over.
• An angry cleaner approached Jiang Linyuan and demanded that he come help her with something.

Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi stood up to a hospital cleaner who tried to bully them and fake an injury, while Vice Dean Yang intervened on Su Muzhi’s behalf. After Yang paid the cleaner ten thousand yuan, she had security stop her and hinted that she would face consequences for extortion; Su Muzhi then warned Jiang Linyuan about her mother’s subtler ways of looking down on him, but he remained unconcerned.

• A cleaner ordered Jiang Linyuan to sweep, and he mocked her after she insulted his manners.
• When the cleaner shoved Jiang Linyuan, Su Muzhi slapped her, and the cleaner fell down and claimed she had been hit.
• Jiang Linyuan backed Su Muzhi by insisting the cleaner had fallen by herself, while Su Muzhi called Vice Dean Yang for help.
• Vice Dean Yang arrived with security, questioned the cleaner, then transferred her ten thousand yuan before having the guards block her from leaving over suspected extortion.
• Su Muzhi warned Jiang Linyuan that her mother would make him feel inferior, but he joked about it and said he was not worried.

Su Muzhi and Jiang Linyuan left the hospital after Vice Dean Yang had the auntie escorted out. Su Muzhi shared how she had outmaneuvered her controlling mother, then called herself and Jiang accomplices, but he mistook her words for a confession and she walked away in exasperation.

• Vice Dean Yang had security escort the auntie out, then offered Su Muzhi an explanation and let her leave with Jiang Linyuan.
• Su Muzhi grabbed Jiang Linyuan and took him away from Vice Dean Yang, explaining that she had only used an excuse to leave.
• Su Muzhi told Jiang Linyuan how her mother had driven away a girl who liked her and tried to send her abroad, while her father helped her attend Xingnan University.
• Su Muzhi reminded Jiang Linyuan that they had lied to Liu Tingting, falsely accused the auntie, and planned to deceive Yu Songsong together, calling them accomplices.
• Jiang Linyuan asked whether Su Muzhi wanted to be his girlfriend, and Su Muzhi called him a downer and walked away.

After the volunteer event, Jiang Linyuan invited Yu Songsong, Lin Yilin, and Zhang Juntang to Haidilao. He noticed Lin Yilin’s jealousy and gave her a Harry Potter figurine, leaving her to hint that she acted easy to read on purpose.

• Jiang Linyuan invited Lin Yilin and Zhang Juntang to dinner with Yu Songsong, and Yu Songsong agreed to join them at Haidilao.
• Yu Songsong complained about a cleaning lady trying to make volunteers do her work, and Zhang Juntang admitted she had nearly been taken in by the request.
• Jiang Linyuan and Yu Songsong walked together while Lin Yilin grew jealous and hurried ahead with Zhang Juntang.
• Jiang Linyuan stopped at a gift shop and later gave Lin Yilin a Harry Potter figurine on the way to the restaurant.
• Lin Yilin kept the figurine rather than let Jiang Linyuan give it to Yu Songsong, then told him that people who were easy to read sometimes acted that way on purpose.

At Haidilao, Jiang Linyuan played truth or dare with Yu Songsong, Lin Yilin, and Zhang Juntang, and the questions turned toward romance. After Jiang hinted that his former crush was someone Yu Songsong knew, all three girls reacted as if he might mean them, leaving him convinced he was surrounded by Downer Girls.

• Jiang Linyuan and the three girls ordered non-spicy hot pot and started a truth-or-dare game in a group chat.
• When Zhang Juntang won the first round, she asked Jiang Linyuan whether he disliked her, and he said he did not.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Lin Yilin and Yu Songsong about their ideal types, and Yu Songsong said she wanted someone who would take her side even when she was wrong.
• Yu Songsong asked Jiang Linyuan how many relationships he had had, and he described an incomplete relationship with someone who had not agreed to date him.
• Jiang Linyuan hinted that his former crush was someone Yu Songsong knew, and Yu Songsong, Lin Yilin, and Zhang Juntang each wondered whether he meant her.

Jiang Linyuan and Yu Songsong’s meal was interrupted by Zhou Yulan, who tried to introduce Yu Songsong’s boyfriend to another woman. Their argument exposed their bitter history, and the chapter ended with Yu Songsong accepting Zhou Yulan’s challenge to talk in the bathroom.

• A woman approached Jiang Linyuan for his WeChat, and he redirected her to Lin Yilin, who added him and then blocked the woman.
• Zhou Yulan joined the group uninvited and tried to get Yu Songsong to share Jiang Linyuan’s contact with her friend.
• Yu Songsong confronted Zhou Yulan over how she had treated her in high school, and accused her of falsely accusing someone and forcing them to drop out.
• Zhou Yulan brought up Yu Songsong’s cheating, while Yu Songsong admitted it and called Zhou Yulan a hypocrite.
• Zhou Yulan suggested they talk in the bathroom, and Yu Songsong agreed.