Chapter Summaries

Su Yan faked an illness to leave school and met Zhang Wei at First-Class Residence to discuss supplying his restaurant with vegetables. Zhang Wei praised the exceptional produce and asked Su Yan about his secret formula.

• Su Yan pretended to have enteritis so Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan would leave, then admitted the ruse to Lin Qiang and asked him to keep it secret.
• Su Yan changed into a suit, brought fruit, and went to First-Class Residence to meet Zhang Wei.
• Zhang Wei recalled buying Su Yan's vegetables and discovering their flavor and health benefits after eating them for a week.
• Su Yan impressed Zhang Wei by identifying the Wuyi Mountains rock tea, and Zhang Wei asked about the secret behind his vegetables.

Su Yan finalized a vegetable-supply deal with Zhang Wei and later signed the contract, while preparing to expand his crops and tending to Little War God. He skipped Zhang Wei’s invitation to celebrate a restaurant opening and left school with Lin Qiang for KFC.

• Su Yan agreed to supply Zhang Wei’s hotel with vegetables at seasonal wholesale prices and arranged to deliver them daily.
• Su Yan declined Zhang Wei’s offer of a ride after they drank, gave him a basket of fruit, and went home by taxi.
• Su Yan ordered seeds online, then entered his space, where Little War God guarded him while he slept.
• Su Yan and Zhang Wei signed their contract, and Su Yan sent a flower basket to celebrate the opening of Wisteria Flower Restaurant.
• Su Yan declined Zhang Wei’s invitation to drink and treated Lin Qiang to KFC after school.

Su Yan and Lin Qiang ate at KFC, where they ran into Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan. Su Yan’s advice made Liang Kui realize that he needed to confess if he wanted Chen Wanwan to acknowledge their relationship.

• Lin Qiang asked Su Yan about his parents, and Su Yan said they had remarried and no longer kept in touch with him.
• Lin Qiang ordered plenty of food at KFC, then choked when he saw Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan arrive together.
• Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan joined Su Yan and Lin Qiang at their table, and Chen Wanwan denied that she was dating Liang Kui.
• Su Yan told Lin Qiang that a boy should confess before expecting a girl to acknowledge a relationship, prompting Lin Qiang to mention Wan Fang’s confession to Su Yan.
• Liang Kui realized that he needed to confess to Chen Wanwan instead of assuming their outings had confirmed their relationship.

As Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan began dating, Su Yan prepared for winter exams and a New Year's Day performance while arranging to open a shop. The chapter ended with Aunt Xu uncertain whether to accept Su Yan’s offer of five percent of the shop’s profits in exchange for using her identity to register it.

• Liang Kui invited Chen Wanwan to a movie, and they began dating soon afterward, becoming a well-known couple at school.
• Su Yan met Zhang Wei at First-Class Residence, explained his circumstances and why he had disguised himself, and discussed his independent future with him.
• Su Yan left Zhang Wei and planned to review for final exams and prepare a performance for the New Year's Day gala.
• Su Yan visited Aunt Xu and asked her to negotiate a one-year lease for a shop near the vegetable market so he could open a business during winter break.
• Su Yan asked Aunt Xu to use her identity to register the shop and offered her five percent of its profits, leaving her uneasy about accepting.

Su Yan considered expanding his fruit business while preparing for Pear Blossom High School’s New Year’s Day party. When Lin Qiang went to pay for tangerines, he discovered that the class funds and his own money were missing.

• Su Yan urged a vegetable-stall owner to consider running his fruit stall and explained that he might need help with the vegetable stall after New Year.
• Su Yan trained War God in the space and joked with the Red Mist about the dog’s growth and the cultivation incantation.
• The arts committee member asked Su Yan to choose a performance for the class party, and he considered performing after seeing Liang Kui’s song on the list.
• Lin Qiang took Su Yan and two classmates to buy party snacks, searching many stalls for cheap tangerines.
• At the chosen stall, Lin Qiang found that the class funds and his personal spending money had disappeared, leaving them unable to buy the tangerines.

Su Yan lent Lin Qiang money after Lin Qiang lost the class funds, then confronted Chen Wanwan when she withheld snacks from Chen Yan for not paying the class fee. Lin Qiang brought up spare food and teased Su Yan about his concern for Chen Yan.

• Su Yan gave Lin Qiang three hundred yuan to buy party refreshments after Lin Qiang lost his wallet and the class funds.
• The class prepared for its evening party, and Chen Yan received no snacks because she had not paid the class fee.
• Su Yan confronted Chen Wanwan over excluding Chen Yan, and Chen Wanwan defended her decision.
• Lin Qiang offered to get Chen Yan a portion of the leftover food, but Su Yan said he would share his own snacks with her.
• Lin Qiang teased Su Yan, asking whether he had fallen for Chen Yan.

During the class celebration, Su Yan and Liang Kui nearly fought over an insult before their teachers stopped them and the performances began. The history teacher’s guitar performance captivated the class, but he ended by reminding everyone that unfinished homework still meant copying it one hundred times.

• Su Yan shared snacks with Chen Yan and teased Liang Kui, who stole and devoured one of Su Yan’s tomatoes.
• Liang Kui and Su Yan argued after Su Yan insulted Liang Kui and his girlfriend, Chen Wanwan, and Liang Kui prepared to punch him.
• The homeroom teacher and Lin Qiang intervened, and the students started their celebration performances.
• The history teacher sang “Birch Forest” while playing guitar, moving the class to applause and tears.
• The history teacher warned the students to finish their homework within three days or copy it one hundred times.

At the New Year’s party, Liang Kui sang “I Like You” to Chen Wanwan, while Su Yan reflected on how much he now cared about his classmates and their shared youth. Su Yan took the stage to sing Hacken Lee’s “Never Change,” ready to show a talent he had kept hidden.

• The PE teacher failed to break a red brick, and the arts committee member introduced Liang Kui’s performance.
• Liang Kui sang Beyond’s “I Like You” while looking at Chen Wanwan, who was moved by his serenade.
• As the party continued, Su Yan realized he had become invested in his classmates and was experiencing the youth he had once avoided.
• Su Yan teased his friend about saying “ganbatte” before agreeing to perform.
• Su Yan selected Hacken Lee’s “Never Change” and prepared to sing from the heart.

At the New Year’s party, Wan Fang confessed her love to Su Yan, but the celebration continued with the class singing together. After the holiday, Wan Fang stopped speaking to Su Yan, and he finished his final exams and left campus in the winter snow.

• Wan Fang rushed to Su Yan after his song and confessed her love, while Lin Qiang pulled her away at the homeroom teacher’s order.
• Su Yan and Liang Kui led the class in singing “True Heroes” as the party ended.
• After the New Year’s Day holiday, Wan Fang stopped speaking to Su Yan.
• Su Yan took his final exams in good condition and left campus after the last exam.
• Someone called for Su Yan to wait, and he stopped and turned around.

Su Yan returned to school to help grade exams and discussed finding a winter-break job with Lin Qiang. While they ate noodles, they overheard Chen Wanwan learning that her math score had fallen sharply, threatening her standing as class monitor.

• Liang Kui told Su Yan to return to school to help grade papers, and Su Yan reflected that Liang Kui had been his first love.
• Su Yan and several classmates graded Class Three’s papers, then Su Yan told Lin Qiang he planned to work at a fruit shop during winter break.
• Lin Qiang asked to join Su Yan, who said he would check whether there was room for him.
• Hungry from grading, Liang Kui went to buy instant noodles, and Lin Qiang took Su Yan to eat in the teachers’ office building lobby.
• Chen Wanwan learned from Yu Cong and another girl that she had lost more than ten points on the math exam, while Liang Kui and several classmates had earned full marks.
• The girl told Chen Wanwan that her teacher suspected her relationship with Liang Kui had hurt her grades and that class officers would be reelected; Chen Wanwan was stunned to hear Chen Yan had ranked among the class’s top ten in math.

On report card day, Su Yan learned that his father would not attend the parent-teacher conference, while students and parents gathered to hear the homeroom teacher speak. As the report cards and test papers were distributed, Liang Kui noticed that Su Yan’s parents were absent.

• Yuan Yuan deliberately warned Chen Wanwan that she might lose her vice class monitor position, then told Yu Cong that Wanwan had betrayed Lin Qiang by reporting his mistake to the teacher.
• Lin Qiang told Su Yan that he had kept Chen Wanwan’s relationship with Liang Kui secret, yet she had reported him; he later returned to class angry but afraid to confront her.
• Five days later, Mr. Ma told Su Yan that his father had refused to attend the parent-teacher conference, and Su Yan said he did not care.
• Students and parents filled the classroom for the conference, where Liang Kui attended with his cousin while his own parents remained in City A.
• After Mr. Ma’s lengthy speech, Su Yan helped distribute the math papers, and Liang Kui asked why Su Yan’s parents were not there.

After Su Yan topped the Year One exams and received a thousand-yuan scholarship, he left the awards ceremony and rode toward the market. Five school troublemakers blocked his way and demanded his prize money, but Su Yan called 110.

• The homeroom teacher announced Su Yan as the class’s top student, with Lin Qiang second, Liang Kui third, and Chen Wanwan fourth.
• At the school-wide ceremony, Su Yan received first place in Year One and a thousand-yuan scholarship, then advised students to eat more fruits and vegetables.
• Liang Kui laughed with delight over his fifty-yuan scholarship, while Su Yan quietly left the ceremony and rode away from campus.
• Five school troublemakers stopped Su Yan around a corner and demanded his scholarship money.
• Su Yan raised an eyebrow and used his phone’s quick dial to call 110.

Su Yan called the police when five thugs tried to rob him, then used his scholarship certificate to explain why they had targeted him. After the police took the thugs away, he brought Lin Qiang to help run the fruit shop over winter break, and they finished setting it up for business.

• Su Yan reported five thugs robbing him near Pear Blossom High School, kicked three of them down, and let the leader strike him before police arrived.
• Su Yan showed the police his first-prize scholarship certificate and one thousand yuan, and officers arrested the thugs.
• Lin Qiang warned Su Yan that the thugs were followers of Wan Fang’s thug brother, then agreed to work at the fruit shop for fifty yuan a day.
• Su Yan took Lin Qiang to the market, where Aunt Xu approved him as a helper and told them to prepare the shop.
• Su Yan and Lin Qiang arranged and labeled the fruit, and Lin Qiang handled sales and accounts without making a mistake.

Su Yan and Lin Qiang’s fruit shop grew busy, so they hired Chen Yan to help as New Year’s demand increased. Their sales and profits rose sharply, leaving Su Yan promising to buy jade soon.

• Aunt Xu invited Su Yan and Lin Qiang to dinner after their first busy day at the fruit shop, and they discussed hiring another worker.
• Su Yan suggested hiring his honest classmate Chen Yan, and Lin Qiang called her to the market the next day.
• Chen Yan accepted the part-time job and said she could use an electronic scale, though she could not reliably spot counterfeit bills.
• Su Yan, Lin Qiang, and Chen Yan worked through the holiday as customers bought fruit by the box and business grew.
• Lin Qiang’s father brought relatives and friends to the shop, while the New Year rush also boosted the vegetable stall’s sales and profits.
• Su Yan told the voice offering him endless produce that he would buy jade soon, and it claimed selling everything could earn six hundred thousand.

Su Yan, Aunt Xu, Lin Qiang, and Chen Yan shared a New Year’s Eve reunion dinner, where Aunt Xu gave Chen Yan new clothes and spoke sadly about her absent daughter. After everyone left, Su Yan spent the holiday alone and reflected on the lonely households around him.

• Su Yan took lower-spiritual-energy vegetables and fruit from his space to sell as the store grew quiet on New Year’s Eve.
• Aunt Xu gave Lin Qiang and Chen Yan red envelopes for working on the holiday and invited them to a reunion dinner at Wisteria Flower Restaurant.
• At dinner, Lin Qiang praised Chen Yan’s appearance, and Aunt Xu gave her three bags of new clothes while lamenting that her daughter was away.
• After dinner, Lin Qiang and Chen Yan went home, and Su Yan sent Zhang Wei a text before leaving the restaurant alone.
• Su Yan returned to his decorated residential complex and reflected that he and Aunt Xu were among many people spending the holiday in loneliness.

On New Year's Eve, Su Yan received calls from his absent parents and went out to numb himself at a nightclub, where Zhang Wei watched him dance. Photos of Su Yan partying reached Liang Kui, who was stunned by the contrast with the good student he knew.

• Su Yan's father and mother called to say they would not spend the New Year with him, and his mother announced she was pregnant.
• Su Yan met Zhang Wei at a nightclub and drank iced beer before heading to the dance floor.
• Su Yan danced wildly and kissed a woman while someone secretly photographed him and sent the pictures away.
• Liang Kui received the photos from his cousin and realized they showed Su Yan acting unlike the student he knew.

On Chinese New Year’s Eve, Su Yan danced at a nightclub while Zhang Wei watched over him, then drove him home. Afterward, Su Yan relaxed in the waterfall pool and happily discussed growing taller.

• Liang Kui examined saved photos of Su Yan dancing and wondered whether Su Yan had been using drugs, while Zhang Wei believed Su Yan was dancing with a clear mind to release stress.
• A man praised Su Yan’s looks and figure, but Zhang Wei rebuked him for his lewd thoughts.
• At midnight, Su Yan finished dancing and asked Zhang Wei why he had come if he would not drink or dance; Zhang Wei left the club with him.
• Zhang Wei drove Su Yan home, asked whether he often went to nightclubs, and wished him a happy New Year.
• Su Yan washed in the waterfall pool and joked with the old man about growing taller and not wanting to be as tall as basketball stars.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su Yan celebrated at the fruit shop with Lin Qiang and Chen Yan, then agreed to visit their homeroom teacher with them. The next morning, the three students visited Ma En and enjoyed a generous breakfast at his home, where a new arrival interrupted their conversation.

• Su Yan ate chicken soup vermicelli, exchanged New Year greetings at the fruit shop, and urged Aunt Xu to take a holiday break.
• Su Yan, Lin Qiang, and Chen Yan decided to visit their homeroom teacher, Ma En, and brought fruit to his home the next morning.
• Ma En warmly welcomed the students, and his wife served them chicken noodle soup packed with ingredients.
• The students told Ma En about their winter-break fruit-selling work and finished their noodles before chatting over snacks and fruit.
• When the doorbell rang, Lin Qiang quietly asked Su Yan whether they should leave.

Su Yan returned to school after the New Year break as an epidemic began spreading, then was lured to a stairwell and attacked by a group of second-year sports students. The chapter ended with Lin Qiang helping the bleeding Su Yan up as Su Yan coldly faced the group’s leader.

• Chen Wanwan and her father visited Teacher Ma with New Year gifts, and Su Yan secretly marked their car.
• Su Yan, Lin Qiang, and Chen Yan returned to school after the holiday, and Su Yan hired someone to mind the shop.
• Teacher Ma warned the class about an epidemic spreading across the country and around the world before leaving for a meeting.
• A girl called Su Yan out of the classroom, and more than twenty second-year sports students attacked him by the stairwell.
• Lin Qiang rushed to help Su Yan, who clutched his bleeding forehead and stared at the group’s leader.

Wan Xing attacked Su Yan at school, but Su Yan fought back and drove off the athletic students who had come to back Wan Xing up. The conflict ended with Thick Lips warning Su Yan that they might confront him outside school.

• Wan Fang scolded Wan Xing for attacking Su Yan, but Wan Xing insisted he was protecting her and threatened to keep beating Su Yan.
• Su Yan kicked Wan Xing twice and knocked him to the ground as Chen Wanwan called a teacher and warned the gathered students about disciplinary action.
• Wan Fang tried to stop Wan Xing from continuing the fight, while Wan Xing demanded that Xu Wei and the others help him.
• Thick Lips objected to fighting at school because he and his men wanted to attend sports school, then left with them.
• Thick Lips warned Su Yan to avoid being alone outside school, and Su Yan mocked him as the undefeated lone hero.