Recaps

Pu Yu escaped her family’s attempt to marry her off and began a new life at school with help from Li Suhua, while growing closer to her gifted but guarded deskmate, Yuan Su. The arc ended with Yuan Su agreeing to keep sitting beside Pu Yu as their final year continued.

• Pu Yu left home for Whitebank Town, found Li Suhua with help from Yuan Su, and persuaded Li Suhua to take her in and help her transfer to Tingnan Middle School.
• Pu Yu discovered that Pu Zhiming had given her counterfeit money, and Li Suhua paid her tuition and living expenses so she could stay in town.
• Pu Yu befriended Xu Suiran and learned that Yuan Su was supporting his mother and repaying his family’s debts through repair work.
• Pu Yu encouraged Yuan Su to enter the Physics Competition, but he refused until Lu Zhen found the registration form and persuaded him to promise he would compete.
• Yuan Su defended Pu Yu when classmates harassed her, and later Pu Yu intervened when he faced a complaint over confronting one of them.
• Pu Yu’s essay was selected as a model, and Yuan Su read it while preparing a defiant self-reflection about the exam incident.
• Cheng Siyi kept Pu Yu and Yuan Su seated together for another month, and Yuan Su finally agreed to remain her deskmate after Pu Yu insisted she wanted to stay beside him.

Pu Yu and Yuan Su grew closer as she helped care for him and his mother, while he supported her studies and protected her during a frightening trip to Nanhua City. The arc ended with Yuan Su taking Pu Yu to North Mountain for her birthday, where they watched the stars together.

• Pu Yu shared persimmons with Yuan Su, who told Lu Zhen that Pu Yu was good to him.
• Yuan Su admitted he had left Pu Yu a repaired cassette player and helped her study, while she stayed with him through a fever and cared for Lu Zhen.
• Pu Yu visited Lu Zhen with homemade rice dumplings and introduced herself as Yuan Su’s friend, helping Lu Zhen feel calmer.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu traveled to Nanhua City to find a sewing-machine gear, but Chen Jun’s thugs abducted Pu Yu until Yuan Su fought them off.
• After spending the night in an inn, Pu Yu told Yuan Su why she had fled Chen Jun, and they returned to Whitebank Town together.
• Pu Yu began earning money through writing, and her essay was accepted by the Nanhua Daily supplement.
• Pu Yu celebrated her December 31 birthday with Grandma and Xu Suiran, then took cake to Yuan Su and his mother.
• Yuan Su led Pu Yu up North Mountain, showed her the view through a telescope, and helped her imagine her mother among the stars as she made a wish for him to be safe.

Pu Yu and Yuan Su grew closer as they supported each other through Yuan Hongzheng’s theft and mounting debts. After Li Suhua collapsed and needed urgent surgery, Pu Yu recovered money from Pu Zhiming and Yuan Su raised the remaining funds, leaving them waiting for the operation.

• Pu Yu gave Yuan Su her treasured red cord for his birthday, then comforted him after Yuan Hongzheng stole his mother's medical money and thugs beat him.
• Li Suhua lent Yuan Su money for Lu Zhen’s hospitalization, and Yuan Su helped Pu Yu study while she published a puppy story inspired by him.
• Pu Yu confronted a creditor at Yuan Su’s shop and painted over its defaced shutter, and Yuan Su embraced her after trying to send her away.
• Yuan Su gave Pu Yu a phone and celebrated New Year’s Eve with their families, but he interrupted her attempted confession on North Mountain because he worried about their future.
• Li Suhua defended Yuan Su at the parent meeting and then collapsed, and doctors warned that she needed urgent spinal surgery.
• Pu Yu and Yuan Su persuaded Li Suhua to accept treatment after she tried to send Pu Yu away over the cost.
• Pu Yu held her baby brother at knifepoint to recover two thousand yuan from Pu Zhiming, while Yuan Su gathered money from friends and sold saved parts to fund the surgery.
• Pu Yu accepted Yuan Su’s money as a loan and waited with Li Suhua for surgery, while Li Suhua gave her the house deed and warned her against anyone claiming to be her biological grandparents.

Pu Yu endured Yuan Su’s unexplained departure, built a life at university, and eventually traced his remittances to Rinzhou. She found him there, and their reunion began with apologies, renewed closeness, and Yuan Su promising not to leave again.

• Pu Yu found Yuan Su beaten after debt collectors attacked his repair shop, then urged him to leave town with her after they finished school.
• Yuan Su left town after the exams to keep his father’s debts from endangering Pu Yu, leaving her a letter, and Pu Yu later learned he had sacrificed his exam prospects and mourned him while attending Dongzhou University.
• Pu Yu worked and studied in Dongzhou, published writing about Yuan Su, and kept sending him messages as he silently read them and continued supporting her.
• Pu Yu discovered that Yuan Su had sent her twenty-one remittances from Rinzhou and traveled north to find him.
• Pu Yu found Yuan Su at a factory yard, confronted him over his support and silence, and told him she had been lonely and heartbroken.
• Yuan Su apologized and explained that he had stayed to repay his father’s debts, and Pu Yu clung to him when he tried to leave and insisted on staying in his room.
• Yuan Su cared for Pu Yu through the night, promised he would never leave her, and told her about the difficult roads and freezing nights he had endured while working.