Recaps

Jiang Nian showed his parents his monthly exam score of 573 and revealed that he had been promoted to Olympiad Class Three. When the score report sparked disbelief in a family group chat, Yu Tongjie confirmed that Jiang Nian was in his class and had scored higher than him, then decided to contact Zhang Ningzhi.

• Jiang Nian avoided Li Hongmei's threatened beating by showing her his first-place monthly exam score of 573.
• Jiang Nian told his parents he had been promoted to Olympiad Class Three, and Li Hongmei shared his score report with her colleagues.
• Zhang Chunlan suspected the score report was forged and asked her son Yu Tongjie whether Jiang Nian was in his class.
• Yu Tongjie confirmed that Jiang Nian was in his class and had scored higher than him, though he allowed that Jiang might have cheated.
• Yu Tongjie opened QQ and chose to add Zhang Ningzhi so he could warn her.

Yu Tongjie warned Zhang Ningzhi that Jiang Nian had cheated his way into the higher class, but she rejected the accusation and turned to Jiang Nian. The chapter ended with them chatting late at night after he accepted her QQ request.

• Yu Tongjie added Zhang Ningzhi on QQ and asked how well she knew Jiang Nian.
• Yu Tongjie accused Jiang Nian of cheating and warned Zhang Ningzhi that he would drag her back to the Parallel Class.
• Zhang Ningzhi defended Jiang Nian, whom she had watched take exams, then closed the chat in tears.
• Zhang Ningzhi added Jiang Nian on QQ and told him that someone was bad-mouthing him.
• Jiang Nian joked with Zhang Ningzhi about being a fragile internet emperor and threatened to execute anyone who criticized them.

Jiang Nian learned that Yu Tongjie had accused him of cheating to move up a class, and his mother told him to keep his distance from Yu. During the National Day holiday, Jiang Nian visited Xu Qianqian and left her wondering whether he had really memorized the textbooks.

• Zhang Ningzhi told Jiang Nian that Yu Tongjie had accused him of cheating on the exam, and she urged him not to fight Yu.
• Zhang Ningzhi asked why Jiang Nian had added another girl before adding her, and Jiang Nian teased her about paying attention to him.
• Jiang Nian told Li Hongmei about Yu Tongjie's accusation, and she decided their families would not meet for a meal.
• Jiang Nian spent the first day of the National Day holiday at home and chatted with Xu Qianqian's father, Director Xu.
• Li Hongmei sent Jiang Nian to fetch Xu Qianqian for dinner, and Jiang Nian corrected a spelling mistake on her worksheet before leaving.
• After dinner, Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian went across the hall to do homework together.

Jiang Nian accepted Xu Qianqian’s invitation to see a movie after a system quest offered him RMB 30,000 for having a pleasant date with her. Their outing took an awkward turn when Xu Qianqian discovered that couples buying discounted tickets had to kiss.

• Xu Qianqian invited Jiang Nian to see a movie using a couples’ ticket discount, and the system assigned him a quest to have a pleasant date with her.
• Jiang Nian agreed to go and arranged to take the electric scooter, while Xu Qianqian offered to pay for the outing because she believed he was short on money.
• Jiang Nian passed through the living room, where Mr. Xu and Li Hongmei were having a subdued conversation, then took the scooter keys and waited for Xu Qianqian.
• Xu Qianqian came downstairs wearing a light green dress, and she and Jiang Nian traded teasing remarks before riding to the southern cinema.
• While they queued to buy the couples’ tickets, Xu Qianqian saw that couples had to kiss and anxiously pointed it out to Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian went on a movie date and kissed to qualify for a discount, though both privately suspected the other had ulterior motives. As they rode home, the system marked the date mission complete and awarded Jiang Nian RMB 30,000.

• Xu Qianqian and Jiang Nian agreed to kiss for a forty percent ticket discount and promised not to bring it up afterward.
• Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian kissed at the theater entrance, then watched the movie together.
• Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian left the theater and answered calls from their families before heading home on his scooter.
• Jiang Nian asked Xu Qianqian whether she had enjoyed the date, and she said she would not ask him out again.
• The system marked Jiang Nian's enjoyable-date mission complete and awarded him RMB 30,000.

After a movie date left Xu Qianqian flustered over Jiang Nian’s brief kiss on her cheek, Jiang Nian enjoyed his new wealth and returned to school for evening study. The chapter ended with Zhang Ningzhi watching Jiang Nian expectantly during a classroom break.

• Jiang Nian teased Xu Qianqian about her soft cheek before they went inside, and she later lay awake reliving his kiss near her dimple.
• Jiang Nian celebrated receiving thirty thousand, left breakfast outside Xu Qianqian’s door, and decided to enjoy his youth and money rather than worry about the system.
• Jiang Nian trained legs at the gym and later traded teasing remarks with Xu Qianqian, who reminded him about evening study.
• Jiang Nian attended evening study at Zhen Nan Middle School, where Zhang Ningzhi repeatedly turned around to look at him during the break.

Jiang Nian joked with his new classmates, teasing Zhang Ningzhi until she learned the innuendo in his remark and blushed. Their banter continued into self-study until homeroom teacher Liu Liangsong arrived and ordered everyone who had been talking to stand.

• Jiang Nian told Zhang Ningzhi he had spent National Day studying, and their conversation turned to their middle school and QQ security questions.
• Yao Beibei stepped in when Jiang Nian teased Zhang Ningzhi, while Li Hua and Ma Guojun shared stories about Jiang Nian's dirty jokes.
• Zhang Ningzhi misunderstood Jiang Nian's hand-related joke, then blushed after Yao Beibei explained its innuendo.
• Jiang Nian traded insults with Yao Beibei, Li Hua, and Ma Guojun as they urged Zhang Ningzhi to stay away from him.
• Liu Liangsong entered during self-study, scolded the class for being noisy, and ordered everyone who had been talking to stand.

After Liu Liangsong caught students talking during evening study, Jiang Nian protected Zhang Ningzhi from being singled out and took her to buy drinks for the classmates who were sent to the office. The chapter ended with Jiang Nian discovering that Xu Qianqian had already gone home.

• Liu Liangsong called out Zhang Ningzhi, Li Hua, Ma Guojun, and Yao Beibei for talking during class and sent them outside.
• Jiang Nian stopped Zhang Ningzhi from standing up and explained that he wanted to spare her a bad first impression in her new class.
• Jiang Nian took Zhang Ningzhi to the school shop to buy drinks for Li Hua, Ma Guojun, and Yao Beibei, while jokingly offering her friendship advice.
• Jiang Nian and Zhang Ningzhi gave the drinks to the three classmates when they returned from the office, and Yao Beibei walked into class with Zhang Ningzhi.
• After evening study ended, Jiang Nian went downstairs to wait for Xu Qianqian but found that she had already left.

After Xu Qianqian left without him after evening study hall, Jiang Nian messaged her and learned that a mouse had appeared in her apartment while Old Xu was away. He went across the hall to help, leaving the story with him inside Xu Qianqian’s home.

• Xu Qianqian left school without waiting for Jiang Nian, who also crossed paths with Zhou Yuting on his way home.
• Jiang Nian sent Xu Qianqian a string of messages, then accidentally patted her cyber wooden fish and got a response.
• Xu Qianqian told Jiang Nian that there was a mouse in her apartment and asked him for help catching it.
• Jiang Nian went across the hall and entered Xu Qianqian’s apartment after she nervously let him in.
• Jiang Nian took a Coke from the fridge while Xu Qianqian watched him.

Jiang Nian helped Xu Qianqian catch the mouse in her apartment, then went to school exhausted and accepted milk from Zhang Ningzhi. The chapter left Jiang Nian drowsy in class and enjoying Zhang Ningzhi's kindness.

• Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian argued before he set glue traps and waited in the dark for the mouse.
• Jiang Nian struck the mouse with his flyswatter and caught it on a glue trap, then teased Xu Qianqian about her scent.
• Xu Qianqian accidentally croaked while telling Jiang Nian to leave, and they both laughed before he took the mouse away.
• Jiang Nian went to school alone the next morning and slept through much of Chinese class.
• Zhang Ningzhi offered Jiang Nian a carton of milk, and he accepted it while Li Hua watched enviously.

Jiang Nian settled into Olympiad Class Three and noticed Zhang Ningzhi watching him after the group run. A life-review mission revealed that an older version of him had once dated Zhang Ningzhi, and Jiang Nian decided to complete the mission by reconnecting with her.

• Ma Guojun and the boys pulled Li Hua into their antics, while Jiang Nian joined in to help Li Hua fit into the class.
• Jiang Nian and Li Hua went to the group run, where Ma Guojun sneaked into another class before returning after making a white-socked jock blush.
• After the run, Yu Tongjie looked for girls in the class and felt disappointed that Zhang Ningzhi had defended Jiang Nian.
• Jiang Nian noticed Zhang Ningzhi looking at him and blushing, then received a mission to reestablish contact with his ex-girlfriend Zhang Ningzhi for a reward of 300 RMB.
• Jiang Nian wondered how an older version of himself had dated Zhang Ningzhi, then decided to start by completing the mission.

Jiang Nian joked with his classmates, teased Xu Qianqian, and borrowed Zhang Ningzhi’s math workbook before English class. When the teacher called him up to translate a passage despite his blank test paper, Yu Tongjie revealed Jiang Nian had scored 141 in English, leaving the class stunned.

• Zhang Ningzhi blushed when Yao Beibei asked why her face was red, and Jiang Nian joked with Li Hua and Ma Guojun about his iPhone.
• Jiang Nian patted Xu Qianqian’s head and teased her by croaking like a frog, so she told Song Xiyun a made-up story about their childhood.
• Jiang Nian asked Zhang Ningzhi to lend him her math revision workbook, completing a quest to reconnect with his former girlfriend.
• The English teacher called Jiang Nian to translate a passage, but his test paper was blank, and he falsely claimed it belonged to Li Hua.
• Yu Tongjie told the class that Jiang Nian had scored 141 on the previous English test, surprising everyone.

When Yu Tongjie tried to provoke Jiang Nian in English class, Zhuang Wenqian made both boys translate the reading passage. Jiang Nian publicly accused Yu Tongjie of spreading rumors that he had cheated and challenged him to translate first, leaving the class roaring with excitement as the confrontation began.

• Zhuang Wenqian called Jiang Nian and Yu Tongjie to the podium to translate the passage together.
• Yu Tongjie nervously went up after Zhuang Wenqian used her authority to summon him.
• Jiang Nian offered to let Yu Tongjie translate first and said he would correct any mistakes, while accusing him of claiming Jiang Nian had cheated on his test.
• The class erupted in cheers for Jiang Nian, and Li Hua, Fatty Da-Jun, and Yao Beibei joined in.
• Zhang Ningzhi watched with misty eyes, feeling embarrassed for both boys.

Jiang Nian publicly out-translated Yu Tongjie during English class, exposing Yu's poor performance and damaging his standing with classmates. After class, Jiang Nian accompanied Zhuang Wenqian to the teachers' office, where their banter ended with him flattering her appearance.

• Qianbao quieted the class and had Yu Tongjie translate first, encouraging him as he struggled with the passage.
• Jiang Nian translated the passage sentence by sentence from his blank test paper, impressing the class while Yu Tongjie repeatedly got the meaning wrong.
• Zhuang Wenqian told Yu Tongjie to sit down before the passage was half finished, and classmates began to distrust him over his rumors about Jiang Nian.
• Zhuang Wenqian took Jiang Nian out of class to avoid a confrontation, and they argued in the corridor about his behavior and Yu Tongjie's chances of staying in the class.
• Zhuang Wenqian sent Jiang Nian to fill her cup with hot water, and he teased her about the ingredients before calling her seventeen to please her.

Jiang Nian sparred with Zhuang Wenqian before homeroom teacher Old Liu questioned him about his conflict with Yu Tongjie. Jiang Nian refused to forgive Yu Tongjie without an apology, then began bargaining with Old Liu for a benefit in exchange for letting the matter go.

• Jiang Nian teased Zhuang Wenqian about her Xiaohongshu account until Old Liu arrived to speak with him.
• Old Liu told Jiang Nian that Yu Tongjie had wrongly accused him of cheating, but asked him to consider Yu Tongjie's withdrawn personality and let the matter go.
• Jiang Nian refused to accept Old Liu's appeal and said Yu Tongjie should apologize to him.
• Old Liu revealed that Yu Tongjie had few friends in his previous class, but Jiang Nian insisted he would not simply overlook the accusation.
• Old Liu offered Jiang Nian a concession, and Jiang Nian countered by asking for a chronic-illness medical record and permission to skip evening study hall; Old Liu rejected the demand, so Jiang Nian continued negotiating.

Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian resumed walking home together and traded teasing messages after she apologized for leaving abruptly the previous day. The next morning, Jiang Nian’s unusually straight stick became a classroom sensation until Qianbao took it to show the neighboring class.

• Jiang Nian left evening study early, and Xu Qianqian watched him go before heading home alone.
• Jiang Nian caught up with Xu Qianqian at a convenience store, got her to pay for his cola, and walked home with her while they traded insults.
• Xu Qianqian drafted and deleted several messages before apologizing to Jiang Nian for leaving without an explanation the previous day.
• Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian messaged until midnight, and she asked him to wait outside her classroom after school the next evening.
• During morning reading, Jiang Nian’s classmates admired his perfectly straight stick, but Qianbao took it to show the neighboring class.

Li Qingrong let Jiang Nian and Zhang Ningzhi choose lockers before Yu Tongjie, and Jiang Nian teased Zhang Ningzhi as they moved their books. Through a grueling afternoon of science classes, Jiang Nian reflected on changing his future, while his classmates struggled with lessons and joked around.

• Li Qingrong showed Jiang Nian and Zhang Ningzhi the three newly cleared lockers, and Jiang Nian picked the middle one for Zhang Ningzhi and the top one for himself.
• Zhang Ningzhi blushed at Jiang Nian's suggestion that they share a locker, then put her books and a padlock in her chosen locker.
• Li Qingrong went to notify Yu Tongjie, whom Jiang Nian watched speaking to her with a reddening face.
• During math class, Jiang Nian admitted he understood none of the teacher's explanation, making the class laugh.
• Zhang Ningzhi fell asleep after math and later embarrassed herself by overturning Newton's third law while solving a physics problem, which Jiang Nian teased her about.
• Li Hua called his narrowed eye a Demon Eye, and Ma Guojun told him it was a stye.

Jiang Nian and Xu Qianqian traded teasing insults on their walk home, then Uncle Xu drove them to school through a torrential downpour the next morning. At school, Jiang Nian noticed Zhang Ningzhi looked unwell and stopped to ask what was wrong.

• Jiang Nian waited outside Xu Qianqian's classroom, and she explained that she had told a persistent admirer she was thirty-four and that Jiang Nian was her son.
• Xu Qianqian teased Jiang Nian by offering him a hug as his mother, and he pretended to accept before she dodged and ran from him.
• The next morning, Jiang Nian woke to a storm and reluctantly went to school with Xu Qianqian and Uncle Xu.
• In the car, Xu Qianqian pinned Jiang Nian down when he started to reveal what she had said, then hurried ahead of him after they arrived at school.
• Jiang Nian saw Zhang Ningzhi looking pale and asked what was wrong, and she said she might be cold from the rain.

Jiang Nian helped Zhang Ningzhi when she felt unwell, and she interpreted his small kindnesses as signs of growing affection. After she skipped lunch, he offered to bring her congee, leaving her flustered by his consideration.

• Jiang Nian offered to fetch Zhang Ningzhi water, then caught her cup when she bumped into the doorway and dropped it.
• Jiang Nian closed the classroom window, and Zhang Ningzhi realized he had done it because he knew she was cold.
• Zhang Ningzhi spent the day feeling increasingly grateful to Jiang Nian and found her heart racing whenever their eyes met.
• Jiang Nian returned from lunch and found Zhang Ningzhi still in class, so he offered to bring her hot water and congee.

Jiang Nian brought Zhang Ningzhi porridge and brown sugar water after she felt unwell, then shared Sprite with his classmates during physics. A conversation about a brawl at his former school nearly exposed Jiang Nian’s past, and Ma Guojun became suspicious.

• Lemon Branch sent Jiang Nian fifty yuan, so he bought Zhang Ningzhi porridge and brown sugar and brought them back to school.
• Zhang Ningzhi accepted the hot porridge, and later discovered that Jiang Nian had filled her insulated cup with brown sugar water.
• During physics class, Jiang Nian woke up and watched Li Hua drink medicated oil before sharing Sprite with him.
• Ma Guojun recalled a No. 2 High School student named Nian who won a basketball fight and threw the opponents’ shoes into a toilet.
• Jiang Nian denied that he was the student, but Ma Guojun said he would ask around, drawing puzzled looks from the class.

Jiang Nian denied his notorious school-fight past while enduring teasing from his classmates and an awkward misunderstanding over Zhang Ningzhi’s fruit milk. During evening self-study, he caught class monitor Li Qingrong watching him and wondered why her gaze felt so intimidating.

• Jiang Nian’s classmates teased him about a past fight and throwing his opponents’ shoes into a bathroom, but he denied being responsible.
• Jiang Nian attended Zhong Qing’s biology lesson while Li Hua and several other boys stood at the back to get the teacher’s attention.
• After afternoon classes, Zhang Ningzhi left fruit milk on Jiang Nian’s desk, but he told Ma Guojun he had found it, upsetting her.
• Jiang Nian struggled through evening self-study and considered his prospects for the college entrance exam.
• Jiang Nian repeatedly noticed Li Qingrong looking toward him, then concluded she had probably been looking out the window.

Jiang Nian tried to take studying more seriously, but a system quest distracted him during math class and left him lost. He got Li Hua to explain the problem during PE, then headed upstairs to do homework because a girl was there.

• On their walk home, Jiang Nian teased Xu Qianqian and asked her about a math problem after she urged him to study harder.
• Jiang Nian slept through two English periods, then learned that Xu Qianqian had let him sleep while she taught.
• A system quest about spending money appeared during math class, distracting Jiang Nian from the lesson.
• Jiang Nian grabbed Li Hua after class and forced him to explain the third sub-question by challenging him on the basketball court.
• After understanding the solution, Jiang Nian let Li Hua return to basketball and went upstairs, saying there was a girl there.

Jiang Nian chose to prioritize lunch over studying and unexpectedly walked to the cafeteria with Li Qingrong. Their classmates saw them together and were stunned when Li Qingrong smiled at him.

• Jiang Nian reflected that the system was only a tool and that he still needed to study and shape his own future.
• When his alarm rang, Jiang Nian left for lunch and ran into Li Qingrong, who said she was going to the cafeteria too.
• Li Qingrong followed Jiang Nian downstairs after he warned her that the cafeteria might run out of food.
• Li Hua and the other boys spotted Jiang Nian and Li Qingrong walking together and reacted with disbelief.
• The boys were further shocked when Li Hua saw Li Qingrong smile at Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian ate with Li Qingrong in the crowded cafeteria while Yu Tongjie watched their interaction and struggled to find a seat. Yu Tongjie left feeling humiliated after overhearing the first-year girl mock him for giving up his seat.

• Jiang Nian and Li Qingrong entered the cafeteria as students rushed to reserve seats with books, then sat together at a window table.
• Yu Tongjie studied vocabulary after school, went to the cafeteria, and gave his seat to a first-year girl who called him handsome.
• Yu Tongjie spotted Li Qingrong eating with Jiang Nian and overheard Jiang Nian claim that phone separation triggered anxiety.
• Jiang Nian recognized Yu Tongjie, who sat at their table and endured an uncomfortable meal.
• Yu Tongjie heard the first-year girl call him an ugly old third-year toad, and everything went black before his eyes.

Jiang Nian examined a spending mission that could turn his remaining 57,000 yuan into 171,000 yuan in cashback, and planned how to spend it without wasting his seed money. He borrowed money from Xu Qianqian while teasing Li Hua about his crush on the class monitor, then walked home with Xu Qianqian as they traded insults.

• Jiang Nian bought Li Qingrong a carton of fruit milk and later worked out that spending his remaining 57,000 yuan would earn him 171,000 yuan in cashback.
• Jiang Nian made a list of planned purchases, including clothes for his family and household expenses, and decided to rely on Xu Qianqian for a few days.
• Li Hua asked Jiang Nian about his relationship with the class monitor, and Jiang Nian realized he could use Li Hua's secret crush to get a meal from him.
• Yu Tongjie saw Jiang Nian talking with Xu Qianqian outside the Olympiad Class and brooded over how others viewed him.
• Jiang Nian asked Xu Qianqian for a hundred yuan and claimed he needed money to buy winter clothes for his family.
• Xu Qianqian said she had 826 yuan and 30 cents left for the month, refused to lend more, and traded insults with Jiang Nian as they left school.