Chapter Summaries

Jiang Linyuan intervened when Yu Ma berated Yu Songsong and tried to force her to leave college and marry. He took Yu Songsong away from the station after she refused to defend her mother, and she laughed as they left together.

• Yu Ma confronted Yu Songsong at the station and shamed her for dating Jiang Linyuan and attending college.
• Jiang Linyuan claimed he was Yu Songsong's boyfriend, and Yu Songsong finally challenged Yu Ma over years of neglect and emotional manipulation.
• Yu Ma pleaded and used guilt to make Yu Songsong submit, while Yu Songsong struggled to respond.
• Jiang Linyuan harshly berated Yu Ma and asked Yu Songsong whether she would defend her; Yu Songsong said she would not.
• Jiang Linyuan took Yu Songsong by the hand and led her away, and she embraced him and laughed as they left.

Jiang Linyuan asked Yu Songsong to be his girlfriend, but she brushed him off because of her mother’s situation, earning him a B-Rank Reward Card and a strange physical enhancement. As they discussed Yu Ma’s past, Yu Songsong revealed her painful family history, and Jiang Linyuan ended by joking bleakly about her mother’s death.

• Jiang Linyuan asked Yu Songsong to be his girlfriend, and she refused to entertain the idea while overwhelmed by her mother’s situation.
• The System issued Jiang Linyuan a B-Rank Reward Card and gave him the passive skill Superman Robust Body.
• Yu Songsong told Jiang Linyuan that her father died when she was four and that Yu Ma took her frustrations out on her.
• Yu Songsong explained that Yu Ma had broken up another family to marry her second husband, and that she cheated in school to expose her mother rather than seek her attention.
• Yu Songsong said her stepfather favored boys, went to prison after business losses and illegal activity, and left no unpaid debts.
• Jiang Linyuan made grim jokes about Yu Ma dying, leaving Yu Songsong to wonder whether her mother could still be alive.

Yu Ma tried to reach Yu Songsong at Xingnan University, but campus security kept her outside. Jiang Linyuan pushed Yu Songsong to confront her mother and asked Su Muzhi to help find affordable housing near campus, leaving Su Muzhi to look into it.

• Jiang Linyuan warned Yu Songsong that her mother might come to campus and told her to handle the situation herself, while offering help with financial aid.
• Yu Ma arrived at Xingnan University's south gate, but the guard refused to let her in because she could not provide basic information about Yu Songsong.
• Jiang Linyuan took a selfie with Yu Ma in the background and sent it to Yu Songsong, then challenged her to stop hiding from her mother.
• Jiang Linyuan explained Yu Songsong's conflicted feelings about her family to Su Muzhi and asked her to support Yu Songsong without taking control of the situation.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Su Muzhi to look for reasonably priced housing near campus, and she agreed.

Jiang Linyuan accepted Su Muzhi’s gift of an apartment near campus, while Yu Songsong confronted Yu Ma’s attempts to control her. After Yu Songsong left the counselor’s office shaken, Jiang Linyuan offered to help her have a belated rebellious phase, and she followed him across campus.

• Su Muzhi offered Jiang Linyuan a furnished apartment as a gift, and he accepted the keys after joking that he would let her pursue him.
• Yu Ma blamed Yu Songsong for her hardships and threatened to follow her everywhere when Yu Songsong refused to go home.
• Yu Songsong left the office and asked the counselor to let her be alone for a while.
• Jiang Linyuan placed a sun hat on Yu Songsong’s head and asked whether she wanted a belated rebellious phase.
• Yu Songsong agreed to go with Jiang Linyuan and leaned against him as they walked through campus.

Jiang Linyuan helped Yu Songsong move into a rental home and find tutoring work so she could support herself, while checking on her and growing closer to her. Just as Yu Songsong began enjoying her independence, Yu Ma found her and crushed the sun hat Jiang Linyuan had given her, sparking Yu Songsong’s towering rage.

• Jiang Linyuan arranged a furnished home for Yu Songsong, charged her one thousand a month in rent, and had her sign a contract so she would learn to support herself.
• Jiang Linyuan connected Yu Songsong with several tutoring jobs, and she grew happier as she worked and lived independently.
• Jiang Linyuan visited Yu Songsong each evening, shared meals with her, and took a photo together while she wore the sun hat he had given her.
• After nearly a month away from school, Yu Songsong went outside planning to see a movie with Jiang Linyuan, but Yu Ma appeared and grabbed her.
• Yu Ma knocked Yu Songsong’s sun hat to the ground and stomped on it, and Yu Songsong felt something inside her break as rage surged.

Yu Songsong stood up to her mother and rejected the control that had threatened her new happiness. She left with Jiang Linyuan, confessed that she liked him, and tried to hold back her tears.

• Yu Songsong punched Yu Ma and told her she would pay support but would not allow her mother near her again.
• A short-haired girl slapped Yu Ma, then left after Yu Ma received a phone call and ran away.
• Yu Songsong learned Jiang Linyuan had told Yu Ma where the house was, and she teased him before they headed to the movie.
• Yu Songsong decided to return to school, then told Jiang Linyuan she liked him as they walked through the evening cold.

Jiang Linyuan met Su Muzhi at a milk tea shop, where they traded teasing remarks and discussed her visiting mother. Su Muzhi revealed that her mother’s inquiry into Jiang Linyuan’s family had uncovered that either he or his sister was adopted.

• Jiang Linyuan heard from Su Muzhi that Yu Di had summoned a paper doll and ended up at the police station after a sexual encounter with a male cross-dresser.
• Jiang Linyuan and Su Muzhi teased each other at a milk tea shop, and Su Muzhi questioned his claim that he had turned Yu Songsong down.
• Su Muzhi told Jiang Linyuan that her mother had come to Jinling and was arguing with her father, who was apparently content with their relationship.
• Jiang Linyuan wondered whether Su Muzhi’s mother was her biological mother, and Su Muzhi confirmed that she was.
• Su Muzhi revealed that her mother had discovered that either Jiang Linyuan or his sister had been adopted.

Jiang Linyuan learned that the Jiang family had adopted him, though he remained sure they were still his parents. After his mother heard a girl’s voice and assumed he was on a date, he hung up, leaving his parents to speculate about the girl and her family.

• Su Muzhi told Jiang Linyuan that the Jiang family had filed adoption papers, so he messaged Father Jiang and Mother Jiang to ask if they were really his parents.
• Father Jiang and Mother Jiang mistook Jiang Linyuan’s messages for a scam, and Mother Jiang blocked him after sending a fake request for money.
• During a video call, Father Jiang confirmed that Jiang Linyuan was adopted and said he had expected Jiang Zhiyao to tell him after the college entrance exams.
• Jiang Linyuan said he had forgotten whether Jiang Zhiyao told him, while Mother Jiang asked who had investigated the family and whether the person was a girl.
• When Mother Jiang heard Su Muzhi’s voice, she tried to stop Jiang Linyuan from hanging up, but he ended the call and turned on Do Not Disturb.
• Father Jiang and Mother Jiang speculated that Jiang Linyuan was out with a girl whose family had investigated them, then argued over whether that was a good thing.

Jiang Linyuan took Jiang Zhiyao to dinner and revealed that he had learned they were not blood-related. Their conversation ended with Jiang Zhiyao insisting he would always be her big brother, while their relationship remained unchanged.

• Su Muzhi invited Jiang Linyuan to dinner with her mother the following Sunday before leaving.
• Jiang Linyuan went to Jiang Zhiyao's dormitory and took her out to eat.
• Jiang Zhiyao questioned how long Jiang Linyuan planned to keep pretending to date gold-diggers, but he avoided answering directly.
• Jiang Linyuan told Jiang Zhiyao that their mother had said they were not blood-related, and Jiang Zhiyao admitted she had known for a long time.
• Jiang Zhiyao told Jiang Linyuan he would always be her big brother, and he agreed.

Jiang Linyuan tricked Jiang Zhiyao into paying their restaurant bill, then softened her anger with her favorite snacks and a warm scarf. As Xingnan University prepared for its sports meet, a Student Union meeting brought Jiang Linyuan together with Shen Wanyu and Yu Songsong, and Shen Wanyu left him puzzled by how easily she understood his thoughts and confessions.

• Jiang Linyuan left Jiang Zhiyao to pay their 160-yuan restaurant bill, then called her from school and ended the call while she was still yelling at him.
• Jiang Zhiyao found her favorite snacks and a sky-blue scarf from Jiang Linyuan at her dorm, along with a note telling her to stay warm and accept his red packet.
• At a Student Union meeting about the sports meet, Jiang Linyuan argued with Lin Yilin after she suspected he had signed up as an athlete to avoid work.
• Shen Wanyu asked Jiang Linyuan whether Yu Songsong's family trouble had been resolved, and Yu Songsong arrived at the meeting soon after.
• Shen Wanyu told Jiang Linyuan she had learned about Yu Songsong's situation on her own, then said he was easy to understand whenever he confessed that he liked her.

Jiang Linyuan reassured Lin Yilin about his relationships with Shen Wanyu and Yu Songsong while thinking about how to get better rewards from his system. After the Student Union assigned tasks, he concluded that the system operated like a search, fight, and extract game.

• Jiang Linyuan used [Renewed], and Lin Yilin became gloomy after hearing that he supposedly liked Shen Wanyu.
• Shen Wanyu told Lin Yilin that Jiang Linyuan often lied, and Lin Yilin asked him whether he still liked Yu Songsong.
• Jiang Linyuan said he no longer liked Yu Songsong, who appeared and tried to ask him for an answer before Shen Wanyu stopped her.
• Shen Wanyu asked Jiang Linyuan to visit Su Muzhi's mother and repay a favor on her behalf.
• Jiang Linyuan told Lin Yilin that he had rejected Yu Songsong after his feelings changed, then pondered how to choose targets for system rewards.
• As the Student Union assigned tasks, Jiang Linyuan decided the system followed a search, fight, and extract model and called it the Penis-Groping Game.

Jiang Linyuan ran into Su Muzhi’s father, the vice principal, in the bathroom and learned that he was expected to meet Su Muzhi’s mother on Sunday. After Jiang Linyuan returned to the meeting, Shen Wanyu said she hoped he would join the upcoming sports meet.

• Jiang Linyuan left a dull school meeting and encountered the vice principal in the bathroom, where the vice principal asked whether he was pursuing Su Muzhi.
• Jiang Linyuan insisted that he and Su Muzhi were ordinary friends, exchanged contact information with the vice principal, and admitted that he had once taunted a sports student into cramping during a race.
• The vice principal told Jiang Linyuan to dress presentably for Sunday’s meeting with Su Muzhi’s mother, but Jiang Linyuan hurried away before hearing the rest.
• The vice principal texted Su Muzhi about explaining her mother’s situation to Jiang Linyuan, then gave up when she challenged whether he was taking her mother’s side.
• Jiang Linyuan returned to the meeting, where Shen Wanyu asked whether he would enter the sports meet and said she hoped he would participate.

Shen Wanyu asked Jiang Linyuan to join the sports meet and revealed that Su Muzhi had not chosen to attend Xingnan University herself. A week later, Su Muzhi took Jiang to a hotel for a private dinner with her mother, leaving him to face the family gathering.

• Shen Wanyu asked Jiang Linyuan to take part in the sports meet and offered to reveal one of Su Muzhi's secrets in return.
• Shen Wanyu told Jiang that Su Muzhi had not come to Xingnan University of her own accord and warned him that Su often lied.
• Jiang Linyuan teased Xiao Yilin after Shen Wanyu said he did not care much whether Su's stories were true.
• A week later, Su Muzhi picked Jiang up in a luxury car and drove him to a hotel for dinner with her mother.
• Su Muzhi explained that her family had booked the whole hotel and brought in chefs from their own kitchen staff.

Jiang Linyuan met Su Muzhi’s mother over dinner and learned that Su Muzhi had arranged the meeting herself, while her mother remained concerned about their relationship. Outside the room, the vice principal hinted that Su Muzhi and her mother had grown distant, leaving Jiang Linyuan frustrated by his evasive answers.

• Mother Su invited Jiang Linyuan to sit beside her, questioned how far things had gone with Su Muzhi, and explained that she wanted to protect her daughter from heartbreak.
• Su Muzhi teased her mother about dating and asked Jiang Linyuan whether he would stay by her side for life.
• Jiang Linyuan accused Su Muzhi of pursuing and harassing him, prompting the vice principal to protest before Mother Su quieted him.
• Mother Su told Su Muzhi that she would not interfere in the young people’s relationship, and Su Muzhi asked her to keep that promise.
• The vice principal summoned Jiang Linyuan outside and said Su Muzhi had likely brought him to meet her mother because she considered him a friend.
• Jiang Linyuan asked why Su Muzhi and her mother were at odds, but the vice principal only hinted that they had not always been so distant.

Su Muzhi left dinner with Jiang Linyuan and walked with him at dusk, teasing him about meeting her family and insisting their relationship was between the two of them. She refused to explain her connection to Shen Wanyu, then declared that Jiang could not reject her because she had not confessed.

• Su Muzhi said she had something to discuss with Jiang Linyuan and left the private room with him despite Mother Su's offer to arrange a ride.
• Su Muzhi teased Jiang about meeting her mother, while he accused her of arranging the meeting so he would distract her mother.
• Jiang asked whether Su Muzhi had come to Xingnan University for Shen Wanyu and what Shen owed her, but Su Muzhi insisted his help had nothing to do with Shen.
• Jiang wondered whether Su Muzhi was confessing her feelings, and she cheerfully said he could not reject her because she had not confessed.

Jiang Linyuan bantered with Su Muzhi, who offered to investigate the sports meet’s connection to Shen Wanyu, then prepared to compete in the three-thousand-meter race. He also replied to Yu Songsong’s messages and grew concerned that she was hiding how badly she felt after his rejection.

• Su Muzhi told Jiang Linyuan she found him interesting and offered to help him win Shen Wanyu over, while joking about possibly getting together with him afterward.
• Jiang Linyuan asked Su Muzhi whether the sports meet had anything special to do with Shen Wanyu, and she promised to investigate.
• Three days later, Jiang Linyuan had signed up for the three-thousand-meter race and was enjoying time away from his External Relations Department duties.
• Yu Songsong messaged Jiang Linyuan after noticing he had missed a Student Union meeting, and he told her he had signed up for the sports meet.
• Jiang Linyuan told Yu Songsong she seemed thinner and suspected she was losing weight unwillingly, but ended their exchange with a brief reply rather than comforting her.

After Jiang Linyuan turned her down, Yu Songsong struggled with her feelings and went to the Student Union gathering despite being sick. She reaffirmed her love for him, and he took her to the hospital as she insisted she would not give up on him.

• Yu Songsong asked Jiang Linyuan if he would attend the Student Union gathering, then blocked him before he could answer.
• Yu Songsong spent the day feeling ill and arrived at the gathering, where Lin Yilin noticed she had a fever.
• When Jiang Linyuan arrived, Yu Songsong told him not to speak to her because she would start crying, so he left the room.
• Jiang Linyuan returned with a sun hat, and Yu Songsong confessed that she still liked him and would not change her mind.
• Yu Songsong hugged Jiang Linyuan and asked him to take her wherever he wanted; he chose to take her to the hospital.
• As Jiang Linyuan helped her leave, Yu Songsong repeated the introduction she had given him when they first met.

Jiang Linyuan took feverish Yu Songsong to the hospital, while Lin Yilin worried about their relationship and called him to check on them. The chapter ended with Jiang Linyuan discovering that Yu Songsong’s Bad Woman Level had evolved to A.

• Yu Songsong deliriously told Jiang Linyuan she would cling to him and sabotage his relationships if he had not come, then kissed and bit him as he carried her.
• Jiang Linyuan took Yu Songsong to the hospital, leaving Lin Yilin upset; Shen Wanyu told Lin Yilin that Jiang had acted out of guilt, not romantic interest.
• Lin Yilin called Jiang Linyuan to ask about Yu Songsong, and he showed her the sleeping girl on a video call.
• Jiang Linyuan teased Lin Yilin about not trusting him, and she ended the call without learning what his relationship with Yu Songsong was.
• Jiang Linyuan saw that Yu Songsong’s Bad Woman Level had risen to A and was shocked that the card could evolve.

Yu Songsong woke up in the hospital after Jiang Linyuan brought her there, and she continued pursuing him despite his rejection. As she stayed behind to finish her IV, Jiang Linyuan planned to use Su Muzhi to deal with her advances.

• Yu Songsong woke up in the hospital, confessed that she liked Jiang Linyuan, and tried to press her forehead against his despite his warnings.
• Jiang Linyuan offered to buy Yu Songsong wontons, while she asked the nurse to slow her IV drip after learning it was her last bottle.
• Jiang Linyuan considered how Yu Songsong had become an A-Rank Card and decided to focus on Department Head and use Little Su to counter Yu Songsong.
• Jiang Linyuan returned with wontons and told Yu Songsong he had rejected her because he liked Su Muzhi.
• Yu Songsong resolved to make Jiang Linyuan like her and noticed that her IV would likely keep her in the hospital until after her dormitory closed.

After Yu Songsong gave Jiang Linyuan all her savings as rent, he sent her to her old place and went home, where his parents showed him a mysterious pink diary from his high school years. Its final message led him to wonder whether someone had secretly liked him, and he ended the chapter puzzling over the phrase “pluck grass, close.”

• Yu Songsong transferred all her savings to Jiang Linyuan as rent, but he told her to stop joking and said he was going home to sleep.
• Jiang Linyuan walked Yu Songsong to her old place, then returned to his family home in Jinling.
• Jiang Linyuan’s parents told him they had found a pink diary in his room that Jiang Zhiyao said was not hers.
• Jiang Linyuan found the diary’s dated pages were blank, but its final page wished him joy and told him to wait quietly for the flowers to bloom.
• Jiang Linyuan wondered if a high school classmate had secretly liked him and interpreted the message’s opposite as “pluck grass, close.”