Chapter Summaries

After Wan Xing injured Su Yan in a school fight, teachers intervened and took Su Yan to the hospital, where he received stitches. Liang Kui learned what had happened and berated Su Yan’s classmates for backing down, while Chen Wanwan reported that Su Yan was not seriously hurt.

• The vice principal and other teachers stopped the fight, and Teacher Ma arranged for Su Yan to go to the hospital with Wan Xing.
• Lin Qiang and Chen Wanwan helped Su Yan in the car, where he joked with them despite being covered in blood.
• At the hospital, Liang Kui encountered the group and was shocked to see Su Yan’s injury.
• Classmates told Liang Kui that Wan Xing had attacked Su Yan over Wan Fang, and Liang Kui scolded the boys for not fighting back.
• Chen Wanwan told Liang Kui that Su Yan’s bleeding had stopped and he had received stitches.

After Su Yan was injured in a fight, he refused to pursue revenge and returned to school with Lin Qiang. The semester began with the school imposing closed-campus rules, and students learned that class representatives would help enforce them.

• Liang Kui visited Su Yan in the hospital and promised to deal with the students who had attacked him, but Teacher Ma warned him not to cause trouble.
• Su Yan told Liang Kui and Teacher Ma that he had already gotten his revenge because Wan Xing was injured, and Liang Kui left the hospital in frustration.
• Su Yan arrived at school with Lin Qiang, where students whispered about his injury without affecting his mood.
• The homeroom teacher announced that the school would begin closed-campus management and assign student representatives to check students’ school badges.

Teacher Ma announced new class roles, naming Chen Wanwan as student representative and Su Yan and Liang Kui as flag bearers. Chen Wanwan then challenged Lin Qiang’s appointment as class monitor and recommended Yu Cong instead.

• Teacher Ma named Chen Wanwan the class’s Student Council representative, and Chen Wanwan accepted the role while Yu Cong encouraged her.
• Teacher Ma announced that Su Yan and Liang Kui had been chosen as flag bearers, and Liang Kui objected before reluctantly accepting.
• Su Yan recalled that Liang Kui had also been chosen as a flag bearer in his previous life and reflected on how his own changed circumstances had affected his height and personality.
• Teacher Ma named Lin Qiang class monitor, and Chen Wanwan objected, criticizing his management and recommending Yu Cong for the position.

Teacher Ma appointed Su Yan as class monitor and Chen Yan as Youth League secretary, despite Chen Wanwan’s objections. As the class reconsidered its impression of Chen Yan, Su Yan and Lin Qiang encouraged her to keep going.

• Yu Cong objected when Chen Wanwan nominated her, while several students spoke against Lin Qiang as class monitor.
• Lin Qiang opposed his own nomination and recommended Su Yan, and Teacher Ma appointed Su Yan class monitor with Lin Qiang as vice class monitor.
• Teacher Ma announced Chen Yan as Youth League secretary and challenged the class to consider why they had excluded her.
• Chen Wanwan questioned whether Chen Yan knew her classmates, and the class noticed that Chen Yan’s appearance differed from their assumptions about her.
• Su Yan wrote that he believed in Chen Yan, and Lin Qiang silently encouraged her.

Chen Yan overcame her old insecurities, earned her classmates’ applause, and told her father she had become Youth League secretary. After the class seating changed, Su Yan became Liang Kui’s deskmate, and Liang Kui asked him for a tomato when hunger overcame his irritation.

• Chen Yan stood before Class Two of Year One and called out her classmates’ names, earning their applause and feeling joy in her newfound confidence.
• Chen Yan told her father she had become Youth League secretary, and he encouraged her to work hard.
• The homeroom teacher rearranged the seats, placing Chen Yan in the second row and seating Su Yan beside Liang Kui by the window.
• Liang Kui asked Su Yan to switch seats, but Su Yan refused because he loved the window seat.
• Liang Kui stayed silent until he saw Su Yan eating a tomato and asked him to share one.

Su Yan trained to become a flag bearer, kept working on the accounts for his shops, and arranged a mate for War God. During the holiday, he brought War God to B City to meet Brother Fei, who admired the dog.

• Su Yan agreed to help Liang Kui, then reminded him that eating during class was wrong.
• Teacher Zhang took Su Yan, Liang Kui, and the other new flag bearers to train with the older group, where Su Yan recognized the sports students who had followed Wan Xing.
• Liang Kui shared KFC with Su Yan to repay him for the tomato, while Su Yan worked on his accounts.
• Brother Fei emailed Su Yan photographs of a female Tibetan Mastiff, and Su Yan decided to arrange a meeting for her and War God.
• Su Yan brought War God to Brother Fei's address in B City, and Brother Fei praised the dog's appearance and asked Su Yan for advice.

Su Yan bought War God a second Tibetan Mastiff, and the dogs became inseparable while Su Yan’s friends teased him for his spending. After school began under stricter campus rules, Liang Kui struggled with dorm life and complained to Su Yan about his roommates.

• Su Yan agreed to buy a Tibetan Mastiff for War God after Brother Fei found an owner willing to sell.
• War God rushed to meet his future wife, and Su Yan bought her without inspecting her himself.
• Su Yan saw people wearing masks as the flu worsened, while War God and Rock joked about naming the new dog.
• War God spent all his time with his wife, leaving Su Yan feeling neglected as his friends criticized his spending.
• School introduced closed-campus management, and Mother Liang made Liang Kui live in the dormitory.
• Liang Kui complained to Su Yan about the crowded dorm and asked him, as class monitor, to make Wang Fugui wash his smelly socks.

Su Yan promised to solve Liang Kui’s dormitory complaints by making him dorm leader. During evening study, Chen Wanwan told Yu Cong that Su Yan made her uncomfortable and reminded her of Chen Yan, while Yu Cong defended him.

• Liang Kui complained to Su Yan about Huang Biao’s and Fu Chao’s habits making their dormitory dirty and unpleasant.
• Su Yan told Liang Kui he would ask the homeroom teacher to appoint him dorm leader of 303 Dormitory.
• Chen Wanwan grew irritated when Liang Kui kept talking to Su Yan and ignored her messages.
• Yu Cong praised Su Yan’s looks and questioned why Chen Wanwan disliked him.
• Chen Wanwan said Su Yan seemed gloomy and cunning like Chen Yan, and Yu Cong silently resented the comparison.

Su Yan and Lin Qiang stopped for fried tofu after evening study, and Liang Kui asked them to buy some for the dorm. When Liang Kui returned, he discovered Huang Biao planned to keep a chamber pot beside the dorm beds, prompting the roommates to discuss how many they needed.

• Chen Wanwan felt uncomfortable around Su Yan because she sensed that he disliked her.
• Lin Qiang asked Su Yan whether he should live in the dorms, and Su Yan advised him against it.
• Su Yan discovered that someone had removed his bicycle's valve core again and got his tire inflated at a repair stand.
• Lin Qiang bought ten yuan's worth of fried tofu for Liang Kui, who was waiting by the school fence.
• Liang Kui returned to the dorm and was shocked to see Huang Biao carrying a chamber pot.
• Fu Chao pointed out that the chamber pot was too small for the dorm, and Huang Biao offered to bring more the next day.

Liang Kui left the dorm after his classmates planned to keep chamber pots there, then moved into an elderly teacher’s home. Later, after someone slashed Su Yan’s bicycle tire, a brightly haired youth stopped Su Yan and asked about Liang Kui and Chen Wanwan.

• Liang Kui called Su Yan to say he had climbed over the school wall and was staying at his cousin’s place because he could not bear the dorm’s chamber pots.
• Su Yan and Liang Kui spoke with the homeroom teacher, and two days later Liang Kui moved into an elderly teacher’s home.
• After evening self-study, Lin Qiang urged Su Yan to report that someone had repeatedly tampered with his bicycle and now slashed its tire.
• While waiting for the tire to be patched, Su Yan stayed behind after Lin Qiang went home and ate at a quiet barbecue stall.
• A brightly haired youth and his group arrived, and the youth stopped Su Yan, learned he was in Chen Wanwan’s class, and asked whether he knew Liang Kui.