Recaps

Pu Yu shared persimmons from her grandmother’s tree with her classmates, including Yuan Su, who brought two to his mother, Lu Zhen. Lu Zhen asked about the classmate who gave them, and Yuan Su told her Pu Yu was very good to him.

• Li Suhua picked persimmons and asked Pu Yu to take some to school to share, especially with Xu Suiran.
• Pu Yu shared persimmons with Xu Suiran and Song Jinnian, then gave some to Yuan Su.
• Yuan Su initially refused the persimmons but accepted them after Pu Yu suggested he take them home for his mother.
• Yuan Su peeled and cut the persimmons for Lu Zhen at the clinic, and she asked which classmate had given them.
• Yuan Su told Lu Zhen the classmate was Pu Yu and said she was very good to him.

Yuan Su agreed to ask Pu Yu to visit his hospitalized mother, while Nurse Yao warned him that Lu Zhen’s condition had worsened. At school, Pu Yu found a Walkman on her desk and learned Xu Suiran had not left it, leaving its giver unknown.

• Lu Zhen asked Yuan Su to bring Pu Yu to meet her, and Yuan Su agreed to ask despite his reluctance.
• Nurse Yao told Yuan Su that Lu Zhen had refused her medicine, slept poorly, and repeatedly asked for him at night.
• Pu Yu found an old Sony Walkman and earphones on her desk and suspected Xu Suiran had bought them for her.
• Pu Yu took Xu Suiran aside to ask about the Walkman, but Xu Suiran denied buying it.
• Pu Yu was left wondering who had secretly placed the Walkman on her desk.

Pu Yu confronted Yuan Su at his repair shop about the portable player left on her desk, and he admitted he had fixed and given it to her. He refused her offer to repay him, leaving her flustered with a teasing remark about the value of his labor.

• Pu Yu spent the school day wondering whether Yuan Su had left her the portable player, while Xu Suiran guessed that he had.
• Pu Yu visited Yuan Su's repair shop after school and asked whether the player belonged to him.
• Pu Yu explained that an audio shop owner had praised the player's expert repairs, and she reasoned that Yuan Su was the only likely giver.
• Yuan Su admitted the player was his and claimed he had simply tossed it onto her desk because she wanted one.
• Pu Yu offered to repay Yuan Su or help at the shop, but he teased that even selling her would not cover his labor.

Pu Yu accepted Yuan Su’s repaired cassette player after agreeing to aim for first place in her year, and the two began helping each other as friends. When a heavy storm kept them at school, Pu Yu offered to walk Yuan Su to his repair shop, but he questioned whether she thought he needed protection.

• Yuan Su gave Pu Yu the cassette player and asked her to repay him by coming first in the next exam; she agreed to try.
• Yuan Su gave Pu Yu an English listening tape, and Pu Yu asked whether they were friends; he told her to think what she liked.
• Yuan Su returned to class over the next few days and helped Pu Yu with difficult physics problems.
• A heavy rainstorm began after school, and Pu Yu found Yuan Su asleep in the classroom without an umbrella.
• Pu Yu offered to walk Yuan Su to his repair shop, but he refused and asked whether she thought he needed protection.

Pu Yu and Yuan Su walked together beneath the rain as he took her to the repair shop, and he acknowledged that they were friends. Later, a storm damaged Pu Yu’s grandmother’s house, so Pu Yu went out in the rain to seek Yuan Su’s help.

• Pu Yu persuaded Yuan Su to share her umbrella and walk with her to the repair shop.
• Pu Yu thanked Yuan Su for helping her with English, and he agreed she could visit the shop with questions, as long as she thought them through first.
• Yuan Su shielded Pu Yu from the rain and muddy street before running to the repair shop alone.
• A nighttime storm opened leaks in Pu Yu’s roof, and Li Suhua nearly fell while trying to catch the water.
• Pu Yu learned that Uncle Wang was away and rushed through the storm to knock on the neighboring door for help.

During a violent storm, Yuan Su helped Pu Yu and her grandmother stop their leaking roof from flooding their home. Afterward, Pu Yu and Li Suhua insisted he warm up, and Pu Yu gently dried his hair, leaving him unexpectedly moved.

• Pu Yu ran to Yuan Su in the storm and asked him to help with her badly leaking roof.
• Yuan Su took a tarpaulin and rope to Pu Yu's house, then climbed onto the slippery roof while Pu Yu held the ladder and guided him to the leaks.
• Yuan Su secured the tarpaulin over the damaged roof, stopping the worst of the leaks.
• Pu Yu brought Yuan Su inside and Li Suhua urged him to drink hot ginger soup before he went home.
• Pu Yu dried Yuan Su's wet hair with a towel, and he was touched by her concern.

After Yuan Su left following the storm, Pu Yu worried when he failed to show up at school and wondered who looked after him. She got leave from evening study and hurried out, deciding that she would be there for him.

• Yuan Su left Pu Yu's home wearing her raincoat, and Pu Yu and Li Suhua spent the rest of the night cleaning up the leaked water.
• Pu Yu knocked at Yuan Su's door in the morning but got no answer, then went to school and found his seat empty throughout the day.
• Xu Suiran offered to ask her father and uncle to help repair Pu Yu's roof once the weather cleared.
• Pu Yu grew increasingly worried about Yuan Su's absence and how little support he had.
• Pu Yu asked Cheng Siyi for leave from evening study and ran from school, resolved to reach Yuan Su.

Pu Yu found Yuan Su gravely ill at home and stayed to care for him. As he drifted in and out of feverish sleep, he pleaded for his mother to be left alone and begged Pu Yu not to go.

• Pu Yu bought fever and cold medicine, then went to Yuan Su's home after finding his repair shop closed.
• Pu Yu entered Yuan Su's desolate home and found him unconscious with a dangerously high fever.
• Pu Yu brought him warm water, helped him take fever medicine, and placed a cool towel on his forehead.
• Yuan Su seized Pu Yu's wrist in his sleep and pleaded for the debt collectors not to touch his mother.
• Pu Yu held Yuan Su's hand and promised she would stay with him.

Pu Yu and Li Suhua cared for Yuan Su through a high fever, and Pu Yu stayed beside him until he woke. Seeing her there, Yuan Su realized his feelings for her had deepened, though he kept his longing unspoken.

• Pu Yu told Li Suhua that Yuan Su had a severe fever, and Li Suhua went with her to check on him.
• Li Suhua judged that Yuan Su was about to sweat and covered him with a thicker quilt, then left Pu Yu to watch over him.
• Pu Yu stayed by Yuan Su's bed, wiped away his sweat, and eventually fell asleep beside him.
• Yuan Su woke after his fever broke and realized Pu Yu had cared for him through the night.
• Pu Yu checked his forehead and offered him warm rice porridge, while Yuan Su silently felt his longing for her.

Pu Yu cared for Yuan Su while he recovered from a fever, bringing him porridge and warning him to be careful around debt collectors. The next morning, she delivered breakfast from Li Suhua and coaxed him into eating boiled eggs before returning home.

• Yuan Su accepted Pu Yu’s porridge and told her not to visit boys’ homes alone, but she insisted she did not want to leave him sick and by himself.
• Pu Yu left medicine and warm water for Yuan Su before returning home, and he privately admitted he could no longer push her away.
• Li Suhua prepared breakfast for Yuan Su, and Pu Yu brought him porridge and boiled eggs the next morning.
• Pu Yu checked that Yuan Su had taken his medicine and recovered from his fever, then threatened to have Sui Sui announce a message about him on the school broadcast if he refused the eggs.
• Yuan Su laughed at Pu Yu’s threat, ate one of the eggs, and watched her leave.

Pu Yu dedicated “Sunny Day” to the absent Yuan Su and later studied at his repair shop while preparing for midterms. After placing fifteenth overall, she returned his repaired cassette player, but Yuan Su pointed out that she had ranked first in Chinese and English.

• Xu Suiran hosted the lunchtime radio show and played Pu Yu’s dedication to Yuan Su, who was still absent from school.
• Pu Yu began bringing math and physics problems to Yuan Su’s repair shop, where he helped her study for the midterms.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu took the midterms, and Yuan Su thought about whether she could solve the difficult science questions.
• Pu Yu found that she ranked fifteenth in the year and second in her class, so she brought her cassette player back to Yuan Su because she had not come first overall.
• Yuan Su checked Pu Yu’s results sheet and told her she had ranked first in both Chinese and English.

Yuan Su defended Pu Yu’s exam result, and the two grew more comfortable together before Xu Suiran visited with snacks and shared gossip about Li Yunyi and Song Jinnian. On the Start of Winter, Pu Yu brought Yuan Su homemade dumplings, but found his repair shop closed and asked the hardware store owner where he had gone.

• Yuan Su claimed Pu Yu had ranked first in a subject and teased her for reversing the magnetic-field direction on a physics problem.
• Pu Yu chatted with Yuan Su in the repair shop until Xu Suiran arrived with strawberry milk and chips.
• Xu Suiran told Pu Yu that Li Yunyi seemed to be pursuing Song Jinnian after giving him a pink letter.
• Yuan Su listened as Pu Yu and Xu Suiran talked, then drank the strawberry milk Pu Yu had set on the table.
• Pu Yu helped Li Suhua make glutinous rice dumplings and packed some to bring to Yuan Su.
• Pu Yu found Yuan Su’s repair shop closed and asked the hardware store owner where he had gone.

Pu Yu hurried to the town health center after learning Yuan Su’s mother was refusing her medicine. She reached Lu Zhen during a breakdown and proved to her that Yuan Su really had a friend, leaving Lu Zhen comforted and Yuan Su quietly watching.

• Pu Yu learned that Yuan Su had gone to the town health center because Lu Zhen was refusing her medicine, so she rushed there with an insulated food container.
• Pu Yu found Yuan Su trying to calm Lu Zhen, who accused him of lying about having friends and cut his fingers on broken glass.
• Pu Yu entered the room and introduced herself to Lu Zhen as Yuan Su’s friend.
• Pu Yu apologized for arriving late, and Lu Zhen’s confusion eased as she recognized Pu Yu as the girl who had given Yuan Su persimmons.

Pu Yu brought warm rice dumplings to Lu Zhen in the hospital, sharing a peaceful meal with her and Yuan Su before tending to Yuan Su’s cut. As they left, Pu Yu promised Lu Zhen she would keep visiting, and Yuan Su reluctantly let her.

• Pu Yu brought homemade rice dumplings to Lu Zhen, who ate with her and urged Yuan Su to share them.
• Lu Zhen talked with Pu Yu about Yuan Su until her medication made her fall asleep.
• Pu Yu took Yuan Su to the nurses’ station and treated the cut on his hand.
• Pu Yu reassured Yuan Su that Lu Zhen loved him and was trying hard to remember him.
• Pu Yu insisted she would visit Lu Zhen again, and Yuan Su reluctantly agreed.

Pu Yu spent more time at Yuan Su’s repair shop and visited Lu Zhen in the hospital, where her company helped Lu Zhen’s mood improve. When Li Suhua’s sewing machine broke, Yuan Su offered to search for a replacement gear in the city, and Pu Yu asked to go with him.

• Yuan Su kept Pu Yu away from the repair work and insisted she focus on her homework.
• Pu Yu visited Lu Zhen regularly, and Lu Zhen began supervising Yuan Su’s essays while her condition and mood improved.
• Pu Yu told Yuan Su that Lu Zhen’s happiness while watching him write showed how much the visits mattered to her.
• Li Suhua discovered that her sewing machine had jammed because a gear had broken, and Yuan Su said he would look for a replacement in the city.
• Pu Yu objected to Li Suhua traveling alone, and when Yuan Su offered to go, Pu Yu asked to accompany him.

Yuan Su and Pu Yu traveled to Nanhua City to search its secondhand market for a rare copper gear. After they found and bought it, Yuan Su spotted a man bumping into Pu Yu and sprinted after him.

• Li Suhua agreed to let Yuan Su and Pu Yu search for parts together and gave Yuan Su money for Pu Yu's travel and meals.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu rode the bus to Nanhua City, sharing breakfast and listening to music along the way.
• Yuan Su led Pu Yu through the secondhand market, buying parts and asking stallholders about an old copper gear.
• Yuan Su found the worn brass gear in the west section and bargained the stallholder down to fifteen yuan.
• A man in a gray jacket bumped into Pu Yu, and Yuan Su handed her the gear before dashing into the crowd after him.

After Yuan Su left Pu Yu alone at a market stall, Chen Jun and his thugs abducted her and dragged her into an alley. Yuan Su found and rescued her, and the chapter ended with Pu Yu clinging to him in fear and asking why he had left her alone.

• Pu Yu waited at the stall while Yuan Su went to get something, and Chen Jun recognized her and ordered his thugs to drag her away.
• The vendor stayed silent as Chen Jun's thugs pulled Pu Yu into a dead-end alley.
• Yuan Su returned, learned from the vendor that Chen Jun had taken Pu Yu, and rushed toward the alley with an iron pipe.
• Pu Yu struck Chen Jun with a brass gear, but Chen Jun overpowered her and began pulling open her jacket.
• Yuan Su struck Chen Jun with the pipe, beat the thugs, and led Pu Yu to an apartment stairwell.
• Pu Yu threw herself into Yuan Su's arms, sobbing that she had been scared he had left her.

After Yuan Su recovered Pu Yu’s purse, she clung to him in relief and explained that the red cord inside was the last keepsake her mother had left her. Because Pu Yu’s injuries would worry her grandmother, Yuan Su took her to stay overnight at an inn, where they discovered their birthdays fell on the last and first days of the same year.

• Yuan Su returned Pu Yu’s purse and comforted her as she cried over recovering her mother’s red-cord keepsake.
• Yuan Su noticed the marks on Pu Yu’s face and neck and decided they should stay near the station overnight before returning the next morning.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu found an inn, but only a single room was available, so Yuan Su registered it under his own ID and said he was her brother.
• Pu Yu noticed that her birthday was December thirty-first and Yuan Su’s was January first, and she reflected that he had recovered what she had lost.

Yuan Su returned with food and ointment, treated Pu Yu’s injuries, and promised he would not lie to her. When noisy fighting in the hallway frightened Pu Yu, Yuan Su decided to stay in the room and sleep on the floor while she took the bed.

• Pu Yu waited anxiously for Yuan Su and pointed out that he had returned twelve minutes after promising to be gone for ten.
• Yuan Su brought back meals and ointment, treated Pu Yu’s face, and told her he would not lie to her.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu ate together, then Yuan Su said he would spend the night at an internet café.
• Hallway noise frightened Pu Yu, who grabbed Yuan Su’s shirt and asked not to be left alone.
• Yuan Su moved the bed against the wall, told Pu Yu to sleep on it, and made space to sleep on the floor.

Pu Yu and Yuan Su spent the night together after Yuan Su protected her from Chen Jun and his men. Pu Yu explained why she had fled to live with her grandmother, and Yuan Su comforted her as she struggled with fear.

• Yuan Su arranged a mat and quilt on the floor and stayed in Pu Yu’s room when she admitted she was afraid to be alone.
• Pu Yu told Yuan Su that Chen Jun’s family had wanted her to marry him for business, and that she had fled after refusing and calling the police.
• Pu Yu explained that her mother had died in a workplace accident, while Yuan Su regretted not hurting Chen Jun more and said he should not have left Pu Yu alone.
• When Pu Yu became frightened by the men downstairs, Yuan Su offered her his hand, and she first clutched his sleeve before falling asleep holding his hand.

Yuan Su and Pu Yu left the city after he cared for her injuries and asked her to conceal why they had stayed an extra day. On the bus back to Whitebank Town, Pu Yu leaned on his shoulder, and Yuan Su let her stay there as their closeness deepened.

• Yuan Su woke beside Pu Yu, gently released her hand, and told her to wait while he bought breakfast.
• Yuan Su returned on time, applied ointment to Pu Yu’s face, and asked her to tell Granny Li they had stayed an extra day because he needed to buy something.
• Yuan Su and Pu Yu boarded the earliest bus back to Whitebank Town, and Pu Yu fell asleep against his shoulder.
• When Pu Yu tried to sit upright after Yuan Su teased her for taking liberties, he caught her arm and pulled her back onto his shoulder.
• Pu Yu softly repeated Yuan Su’s name, and he relaxed his shoulder so she could rest more comfortably.

Pu Yu tried to ease Li Suhua’s financial burden by writing for publication, while Yuan Su grew jealous of her connection with Song Jinnian. After Pu Yu reassured him, Yuan Su offered to help her with any problems, not just physics.

• Yuan Su repaired Li Suhua’s sewing machine, and Pu Yu decided to look for ways to earn money to help her grandmother.
• Xu Suiran showed Pu Yu a magazine’s submission notice, so Pu Yu called the editorial office and began writing stories and essays.
• Cheng Siyi praised Pu Yu’s writing and offered to recommend it to other publications.
• Song Jinnian brought Pu Yu a collection of high-scoring essays, prompting Yuan Su to ask whether she had been spending time with him.
• Pu Yu said she had gone home to write and reassured Yuan Su that she wanted him to explain problems to her.
• On the walk home, Yuan Su offered to help Pu Yu with physics or anything else.

Pu Yu learned that her essay had been accepted for the Nanhua Daily supplement, and she celebrated her birthday with warmth from her grandmother and a thoughtful surprise from Xu Suiran. The chapter ended with Xu Suiran encouraging Pu Yu to become a famous writer and promising to ask for her autograph.

• Cheng Siyi told Pu Yu that her essay had been accepted for the Nanhua Daily supplement and would earn her payment.
• Pu Yu returned to class crying happy tears, and Yuan Su worried that someone had upset her.
• Li Suhua made Pu Yu longevity noodles for her birthday on December 31, and Pu Yu reflected on her mother and grandmother in her diary.
• Xu Suiran took Pu Yu to collect a birthday tiramisu cake and gave her a fountain pen and notebook.
• Xu Suiran told Pu Yu she would wait until Pu Yu became a famous writer to get her autograph.

Pu Yu celebrated her birthday with Grandma and Xu Suiran, then met Yuan Su outside late that night. He took her up North Mountain, where he offered to carry her after she became exhausted, saying they would miss the dawn if they dawdled.

• Pu Yu celebrated her birthday with Grandma and Xu Suiran, and Grandma secretly put twenty yuan in Sui Sui's schoolbag to help pay for the cake.
• Pu Yu saved two slices of cake for Yuan Su and his mother, then slipped out late at night to bring them over.
• Yuan Su appeared outside Pu Yu's gate, claimed he was passing by, and pulled her along with him.
• Yuan Su led Pu Yu up North Mountain, where she ran out of strength halfway up the steep path.
• Yuan Su crouched down and told Pu Yu to get on his back so they could reach the summit before dawn.

Yuan Su carried Pu Yu to the summit of North Mountain for her birthday and showed her the stars through a repaired telescope. After he told her he wanted her to see the star that might be her mother, Pu Yu made wishes for the moment to last and for Yuan Su to stay safe.

• Yuan Su carried Pu Yu up the mountain path to the summit of North Mountain.
• Yuan Su showed Pu Yu the nighttime view of Whitebank Town and brought out a telescope he had repaired.
• Yuan Su wished Pu Yu a happy birthday and said he had brought her there so she could see her mother, whom she had said became a star.
• Yuan Su helped Pu Yu identify constellations and suggested that an unnamed twinkling star might be her mother.
• Yuan Su urged Pu Yu to make a wish, and she wished for the moment to linger and for Yuan Su to be safe.