Recaps

After returning to 2007, Chen Zhu improved his exam results, impressed his school with a speech, and protected Yu Xian from Zhang Chao. The arc left Chen Zhu focused on his exams as Yu Xian began treating him and Huang Bohan as friends.

• Chen Zhu woke in his senior-year classroom in 2007 and decided to make a new start, prioritizing business while keeping selected-graduate recruitment as a fallback.
• Chen Zhu stood up to Li Jianming when he harassed Song Shiwei, tearing Li Jianming’s suit sleeve and telling him to stop pursuing a girl who did not like him.
• Chen Zhu scored 654 on the First Mock Exam, ranking eighth in his grade, and delivered an unscripted speech at the exam rally that earned him a place in Zhixin’s university delegation.
• Chen Zhu went to a convenience store with Huang Bohan and Zhao Yuanyuan, where he found Yu Xian working and intervened when Zhang Chao threatened her.
• Chen Zhu took Zhang Chao to the police station, documented the assault, secured a signed apology and promise not to bother Yu Xian, and organized evidence and witness statements for her.
• Yu Xian told Chen Zhu about her family and her refusal to accept money from her father, then teased him at the store and asked him to walk her home.
• Chen Zhu noticed Song Shiwei had circled a mistake on his chemistry paper, while Yu Xian told Wu Yu that Chen Zhu’s concern for her had stirred affection in her.
• Three days later, Yu Xian greeted Chen Zhu and Huang Bohan during break-time exercises, and Huang Bohan decided she had become his school beauty.

Chen Zhu prepared for the Gaokao, planned to trade stocks with banquet money, and grew closer to Yu Xian and Song Shiwei while Li Jianming's threats caused a mistaken assault. After choosing SYSU and finishing the exams, he began driving lessons and kept in touch with Yu Xian as she prepared to return from her summer trip.

• Chen Zhu planned to pool banquet money for stock trading and sought contact with the disbanding Flying Insects Club during a visit to SYSU.
• Chen Zhu accompanied Yu Xian to her mother's grave while rumors about his relationship with Song Shiwei reached Yin Yanqiu.
• Chen Zhu reported Li Jianming's threat to his teachers, but the thugs beat Wang Changhua after mistaking him for Chen Zhu.
• Song Shiwei and Yu Xian came to the police station, where Chen Zhu's parents learned more about both girls and Song Zuomin demanded action against Li Jianming.
• Chen Zhu secured his parents' permission to trade stocks and chose economics at Lingnan College at SYSU, where Song Shiwei chose finance.
• Chen Zhu said goodbye to his class, completed the Gaokao, and persuaded his parents to enroll him at Anshun Driving School.
• Chen Zhu reunited with Bian Xiaoliu at driving school and realized that her boyfriend Ji Haixing had deliberately endangered him during practice.
• Chen Zhu exchanged daily QQ messages with Yu Xian during her trip and asked Mao Xiaoqin for money to buy a phone before Yu Xian returned.