Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan left home for Cloudsea University, touched by his parents’ care and determined to give them a better life in this second chance. At the county bus station, he met Guo Shuai and revealed that Su Ruochu would not be traveling with them.

• Li Jinqiu and Chen Jianye prepared dumplings and gave Chen Fan advice before his departure, while Chen Fan reassured them he could travel independently.
• Chen Fan left the village bus stop alone after his parents saw him off, vowing to make them happy in this life.
• Chen Fan met Guo Shuai at the county bus station, where Guo Shuai had bought their tickets and brought only a backpack.
• Guo Shuai asked why Su Ruochu was not with them, and Chen Fan said her family was probably taking her to university.
• Guo Shuai noticed Chen Fan looked troubled and pressed him to explain what had happened.

Chen Fan traveled to Yunhai and registered at Cloudsea University, where he learned that a shortage of dormitories had placed male freshmen in part of a building shared with female students. The chapter left him facing teasing older women and an unexpected stay in the women's dorm.

• Chen Fan and Guo Shuai arrived in Yunhai, and Guo Shuai left with students from his university after spotting the girls welcoming freshmen.
• Chen Fan boarded the Cloudsea University bus, traveled to campus, and registered with the School of Economics and Management.
• Chen Fan recognized familiar campus landmarks from his previous life and made his way to Dormitory Eight.
• Two older female students told Chen Fan that male marketing freshmen had been assigned half of the third floor while the women's rooms were behind an iron door.
• The long-haired student teased Chen Fan about living near beautiful women and offered to introduce him to a girl, but he declined.

Chen Fan settled into Dormitory 318, met his roommates, and joined them for a welcome meal hosted by Ma Xiaoshuai’s father. As the roommates returned to campus, they learned they were temporarily staying in a women’s dormitory, and Wu Di joked that proximity to the older students gave them an advantage.

• Chen Fan met Mo Siyu and her friend, then found his assigned bunk in Dormitory 318.
• Chen Fan completed registration and returned with supplies, where Wu Di welcomed him and the roommates were surprised by Chen Fan’s Gaokao score of 603.
• Ma Xiaoshuai’s father treated the roommates and their parents to a meal, helping Chen Fan grow closer to the other students.
• After the parents left, Ma Xiaoshuai, Han Xu, Sun Hao, and Wu Di smoked or talked as they walked back with Chen Fan.
• Ma Xiaoshuai revealed that the freshmen were temporarily housed in a women’s dormitory, and Wu Di teased Han Xu about the advantage of living near older girls.

Chen Fan and his roommates met the flirtatious senior Mo Siyu and welcomed their outgoing new roommate, Luo Wenjie. After a freshman assembly and a dorm cleaning, the roommates found a box of unopened sanitary pads left by the previous residents.

• Mo Siyu invited Chen Fan to the pool, but he declined, while his roommates eagerly asked him to introduce them to her.
• Chen Fan and his roommates returned to their room and found Luo Wenjie chatting with two senior girls, who left after he said he had promised to buy each of them a phone card.
• Luo Wenjie introduced himself as a new roommate from Southern Yangcheng and quickly joined the group’s banter.
• The freshmen attended their first assembly, where their adviser appointed temporary class committee members and announced that military training would begin the next day.
• The six roommates cleaned their dorm and Luo Wenjie found a box of unopened sanitary pads left by the previous residents.

Chen Fan and his roommates settled into college life, then began their first day of military training. After searching unsuccessfully for Su Ruochu, Chen Fan headed to the girls' dorm, leaving his roommates wondering whether he already had someone in mind.

• Chen Fan showed his roommates how to use the sanitary pads from their senior's welcome gift to cushion their military boots, and the roommates divided them up.
• The roommates ranked themselves by birth date before military training began the next morning.
• Chen Fan searched his class and nearby formations for Su Ruochu but could not find her.
• After the morning's training, Luo Wenjie claimed his aching back came from breakup sex with his high school girlfriend, and the roommates teased him.
• Chen Fan left the cafeteria and told his roommates he was going to the girls' dorm, prompting them to speculate that he had already found someone he liked.

Chen Fan waited outside Su Ruochu’s dormitory and grew suspicious after seeing her with an older male student, then spent the day in military training and settled into dorm life with his roommates. The chapter ended with the roommates crowding around binoculars to spy on a girl across the dormitory courtyard.

• Chen Fan waited outside Building 7 for Su Ruochu, but the dorm supervisor mistook him for a pervert and ordered him to leave.
• Chen Fan saw Su Ruochu chatting and laughing with an older student who brought her fruit, then followed him to Dormitory Building 10.
• Chen Fan learned from Wu Di that Building 10 housed sophomores and juniors from the School of Economics and Management, and wondered how Su Ruochu knew the student.
• Chen Fan spotted Su Ruochu’s company during military training but went to dinner with his roommates instead of approaching her.
• Chen Fan slipped a pack of cigarettes to the instructor and claimed his newly folded quilt for himself.
• Luo Wenjie called the roommates to look at a girl across the courtyard, and Wu Di grabbed his binoculars to take a closer look.

Chen Fan spotted Su Ruochu outside the boys’ dorms and learned that Tian Yuan, her childhood friend, had been a potential match her mother favored. Su Ruochu assured Chen Fan that she only liked him.

• Chen Fan saw Su Ruochu near the boys’ dorms and hurried outside to meet her.
• Su Ruochu introduced Chen Fan to Tian Yuan as her boyfriend, and Tian Yuan concealed his disappointment.
• After Tian Yuan left, Chen Fan admitted he was jealous and asked about Su Ruochu’s relationship with him.
• Su Ruochu explained that Tian Yuan was her childhood friend and that her mother had wanted to set them up.
• Su Ruochu told Chen Fan she did not like childhood sweethearts and only liked him.

Chen Fan balanced military training and his growing relationship with Su Ruochu while waiting for a buyer for the Domain Name Network. After checking the site’s rapid growth at an internet café, he received an email from its first prospective buyer.

• Chen Fan and Su Ruochu reunited on campus, explained their recent misunderstandings, and began spending their evenings together.
• Chen Fan became a model cadet during military training and admitted to his roommates that Su Ruochu was his girlfriend.
• Chen Fan went to an internet café and discovered that the Domain Name Network’s figures had at least doubled, far surpassing the Easy Domain Network.
• Chen Fan found no buyer inquiries in the site’s admin inbox and worried that his plan to sell the Domain Name Network would fail.
• A new email arrived, and Chen Fan realized the first prospective buyer had contacted him.

Chen Fan rejected several low offers for the Domain Name Network while waiting for HiChina, then finished military training and wondered how else to invest his money. As he returned to his dorm, senior Tian Yuan appeared and said he had come to see him.

• A technology company offered Chen Fan 300,000 yuan for the Domain Name Network, but he demanded at least five million and blocked them after they argued.
• Chen Fan bought phone cards and called Su Ruochu, while Sun Hao anxiously waited to use the phone and Ma Xiaoshuai and Luo Wenjie teased Chen Fan about the call.
• Chen Fan rejected offers from three more companies, including one for 880,000 yuan, and continued waiting for HiChina to contact him.
• Chen Fan led his formation in the final military parade, where the Third Company placed second, then helped it earn third place in the singing competition.
• Chen Fan left the welcome party to check his email, found no messages, and considered how to use his 50,000 yuan as startup capital.
• Tian Yuan met Chen Fan outside his dorm and said he had come to see him.

Tian Yuan tried to bribe and threaten Chen Fan into giving up Su Ruochu, but Chen Fan refused and returned to his dorm. There, he relaxed with his roommates until student council members barged in and ordered him down from his bunk.

• Tian Yuan offered Chen Fan student council benefits in exchange for leaving Su Ruochu, then warned him about the council's power when he refused.
• Chen Fan dismissed Tian Yuan's threats and went back to the dorm, where he considered how to use his fifty thousand yuan.
• Wu Di and the other roommates returned and joked about the evening's performances, easing Chen Fan's anxiety.
• Student council members kicked open the dorm door, criticized the room and its occupants, and ordered Chen Fan to get down from his bunk.