Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuanqiu dominated the 3,000-meter race, showing off his stamina and making a spectacle of his victory. As Bai Qingxia brought him water afterward, Tan Le realized she had been cheering for Lu Yuanqiu all along.

• Lu Yuanqiu and Tan Le ran together while Tan Le admired Bai Qingxia, and Liu Wei scolded Lu Yuanqiu for lagging behind.
• Lu Yuanqiu accelerated past Wang Haoran and the other runners, taking first place while Tan Le struggled to keep up.
• On the fifth lap, Liu Wei and the students cheered Lu Yuanqiu on, and he surged farther ahead despite Wang Ping's concern.
• Lu Yuanqiu crossed the finish line a lap ahead of the second pack, clowning around and celebrating his win as Liu Wei taunted Cao Yan.
• Hu Caiwei brought Lu Yuanqiu a bottle of Scream, and Bai Qingxia shyly offered him water, leaving Tan Le stunned.

After Bai Qingxia brought Lu Yuanqiu water at the sports meet, the two grew closer, and he invited her to lunch. When she failed to return from the restroom, Lu Yuanqiu grew worried and ran to find her.

• Bai Qingxia offered Lu Yuanqiu two bottles of water, and he accepted them while Hu Caiwei gave her drink to Wang Haoran.
• Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia walked together as classmates watched, and she handed him tissues to wipe his sweat.
• Zheng Yifeng jogged through the hundred-meter race at a leisurely pace, while Chen Fei brought him water afterward.
• Lu Yuanqiu invited Bai Qingxia to lunch, and she agreed to meet him after going to the restroom.
• After waiting more than fifteen minutes for Bai Qingxia, Lu Yuanqiu ran toward the classroom building to look for her.

Lu Yuanqiu found Bai Qingxia locked in a restroom broom closet after someone broke the pink hair clip he had given her. As they remained trapped together, he comforted her and promised that things would be different this time.

• Lu Yuanqiu heard Bai Qingxia call for him from the girls' restroom and found her crying in a latched broom closet.
• Bai Qingxia showed Lu Yuanqiu the broken pieces of the pink hair clip he had given her and said she could not put it back together.
• Lu Yuanqiu hid with Bai Qingxia when girls entered the restroom, but the cleaning lady accidentally latched the closet door from outside.
• Lu Yuanqiu noticed a piece of the hair clip was missing, and Bai Qingxia broke down in tears.
• Lu Yuanqiu embraced Bai Qingxia, promised to replace the hair clip, and told her that with him there, things would be different.

Lu Yuanqiu comforted Bai Qingxia after finding her locked in a broom closet, then helped her relieve herself and escaped by climbing over the partition. He opened the closet door and reunited with her outside.

• Lu Yuanqiu held Bai Qingxia as she cried over her broken hair clip and promised himself she would never be bullied again.
• Bai Qingxia apologized for embracing him, then asked how they could escape the locked closet.
• Lu Yuanqiu realized Bai Qingxia urgently needed to pee and arranged mops so she could keep her shoes off the floor while he turned away.
• Lu Yuanqiu climbed over the partition and opened the closet door from the other side.
• Lu Yuanqiu faced Bai Qingxia outside the closet and proudly asked whether she thought he was impressive.

After comforting Bai Qingxia, Lu Yuanqiu decided to protect her from the girls who had bullied her. He publicly challenged them over the school loudspeakers, warning he would hunt them down after the monthly exams.

• Lu Yuanqiu led Bai Qingxia away from the school building, then walked with her and resolved to stand up for her.
• Bai Qingxia ate lunch with Lu Yuanqiu, packed the leftovers for her father, and went home while Lu Yuanqiu returned for a nap.
• Lu Yuanqiu missed the start of the afternoon shot put, leaving Liu Wei and Wang Ping unsure where he was.
• Lu Yuanqiu seized the podium microphone and announced that girls had locked another girl in a bathroom, warning them to hide until after the monthly exams.
• Lu Yuanqiu handed back the microphone and left the podium as Zhong Jincheng and Zheng Yifeng reacted to his dramatic announcement.

After publicly calling out injustice at school, Lu Yuanqiu defused Ge Ritian’s anger and returned to his classmates. He headed for the shot-put event with Bai Qingxia following, where the boys were startled to see Jiao Jiao competing.

• Zheng Yifeng admired Lu Yuanqiu for speaking up against injustice, while Bai Qingxia worried that he had acted for her sake.
• Ge Ritian confronted Lu Yuanqiu, who claimed he had only been joking and was sent back to his event with a warning.
• Lu Yuanqiu told Zhong Jincheng and Zheng Yifeng that he had rescued a girl, then headed to the shot-put area as Bai Qingxia followed him.
• Lu Yuanqiu handed Bai Qingxia his jacket to hold, and she smiled as he joked with Gao Qiang and Zhong Jincheng.
• Gao Qiang and Zhong Jincheng spotted Jiao Jiao competing in shot put and argued over whose wife Jiao Jiao was, prompting Lu Yuanqiu to tell them to stop.

At the shot-put competition, Lu Yuanqiu faced the immensely strong Jiao Jiao and asked Bai Qingxia to blow on his shot put before his attempt. Lu Yuanqiu launched the shot, leaving Zhong Jincheng stunned as its flight continued.

• Zhong Jincheng and Gao Qiang teased Lu Yuanqiu by calling Jiao Jiao his wife, and Bai Qingxia discovered that the powerful, effeminate Jiao Jiao was a boy.
• Jiao Jiao threw the shot put 18.02 meters, prompting Liu Wei to demand that Lu Yuanqiu win first place.
• Zhong Jincheng left Lu Yuanqiu to approach Su Miaomiao, while Liu Wei alternated between scolding Lu Yuanqiu and warmly praising Bai Qingxia.
• Lu Yuanqiu asked Bai Qingxia to blow on his shot put, and she blushed as she did so in front of the gathered students.
• Lu Yuanqiu threw the shot put with a powerful one-handed launch, and Zhong Jincheng's confident smile froze as he watched it fly.

Lu Yuanqiu won three events at the sports meet and returned to the supermarket, where Lu Tian secretly hoped Bai Qingxia would help his son study and become his future daughter-in-law. After Bai Qingxia asked what Lu Yuanqiu planned to do about the girls who had troubled her, he reassured her and suggested they might go somewhere together after the exams, then told her it was time to work.

• Lu Yuanqiu beat Jiao Jiao's shot-put distance by one centimeter, then won the long jump as well.
• After school, Lu Yuanqiu put three gold medals on Lu Tian's counter, and Lu Tian privately decided he wanted Bai Qingxia as his future daughter-in-law because she motivated Lu Yuanqiu to study.
• Lu Yuanqiu told Lu Tian that students had protective shells around their vulnerabilities, then joked that the thought came from his own collected sayings.
• Bai Qingxia asked Lu Yuanqiu what he planned to do to the girls who had troubled her, and he said he had only threatened them so they would not cause trouble again.
• When Lu Yuanqiu asked about her plans for National Day, Bai Qingxia said she would work, and he suggested they might go somewhere together after the exams.

At the sports meet, Bai Qingxia bought Lu Yuanqiu two Scream drinks while Lu Yuanqiu prepared to race Class 29’s Mao Sheng in the 800 meters. Lu Yuanqiu kept pace with the reigning champion, and the race was still underway.

• Bai Qingxia bought two bottles of Scream for five yuan, and Chen Fei discovered the shopkeeper charged her twelve yuan for the same drinks.
• Liu Wei urged Lu Yuanqiu to beat Mao Sheng, the serious-faced 800-meter champion from Class 29.
• Bai Qingxia arrived with Lu Yuanqiu’s drinks and silently cheered him on from the crowd.
• The whistle started the 800-meter race, and Lu Yuanqiu ran alongside Mao Sheng after drawing strength from Bai Qingxia’s encouragement.
• Mao Sheng maintained a lead of four or five meters as Lu Yuanqiu tried to save his strength for the second lap.

Lu Yuanqiu won the 800-meter race, surprising Mao Sheng and drawing praise from Class 28. He shared Bai Qingxia’s Scream with her and showed her how to drink it, leaving them together at the sports meet.

• Lu Yuanqiu overtook Mao Sheng during the second lap and finished the 800-meter race in first place.
• Liu Wei and Class 28 cheered Lu Yuanqiu, while Mao Sheng blamed his defeat on Lu Yuanqiu pretending to be weak.
• Bai Qingxia offered Lu Yuanqiu two bottles of Scream, and he insisted that they each drink one.
• Bai Qingxia revealed she had never tried Scream, so Lu Yuanqiu showed her how to drink it through the bottle’s spout.

After the sports meet, Lu Yuanqiu focused on preparing for the monthly exams and wanted to attend the same university as Bai Qingxia. As he struggled to memorize Chinese passages, he copied his sister Lu Yidong’s bizarre “Knowledge Transfer Method.”

• Bai Qingxia savored the drink she bought and wanted to save the rest for her father, so Lu Yuanqiu bought her father another one.
• Lu Yuanqiu won gold in the high jump, bringing his total to five first-place finishes, and turned his attention to the upcoming monthly exams.
• Lu Yuanqiu resolved to study hard and attend the same university as Bai Qingxia so he could protect her.
• At home, Lu Yuanqiu told Lu Tian and Su Xiaoya he would skip dinner to study, then struggled to memorize his classical Chinese passages.
• Lu Yuanqiu found Lu Yidong pressing her forehead to a book and chanting to absorb its knowledge, then tried the same method himself.

Lu Yuanqiu prepared for his monthly exam while reflecting on the people he did not want to disappoint, then asked Cao Shuang to identify the girls who had forced Xu Yan to withdraw from the sports meet. The noisy Exam Room 30 fell silent when Bai Qingxia appeared, leaving Lu Yuanqiu and Cao Shuang staring at her.

• Lu Yidong and Lu Yuanqiu argued over their parents’ favoritism at breakfast, and Lu Yuanqiu claimed that holding a textbook to his forehead had helped him remember classical Chinese passages.
• Lu Yuanqiu rode to Lucheng No. 7 Middle School and encountered Zhong Jincheng, who complained about the silent top students and revealed that Su Miaomiao was proctoring Exam Room 30.
• Lu Yuanqiu reached the rowdy Exam Room 30, where Cao Shuang offered him gum and asked if he meant to pursue someone after his speech at the sports meet.
• Lu Yuanqiu asked Cao Shuang to find out which girls had forced Xu Yan to withdraw, especially among Xu Yan’s Grade 10 classmates.
• Bai Qingxia entered the floor, and Lu Yuanqiu and Cao Shuang stared at her as the corridor fell silent.

Bai Qingxia arrived at Exam Room 30 for the monthly exam, drawing attention from students who wondered why the top-ranked student was there. As Lu Yuanqiu sat beside Mao Sheng and tried to prepare Bai Qingxia for Tan Le’s disruptive presence, Tan Le introduced himself to her and Lu Yuanqiu stopped him from shaking her hand.

• Bai Qingxia walked into Exam Room 30, greeted Lu Yuanqiu, and took the last seat behind him.
• Lu Yuanqiu entered the room, found Zheng Yifeng asleep and Chen Fei admiring G-Dragon cards, then discovered Mao Sheng sitting beside him.
• Tan Le and Dali Jiao got stuck in the doorway while entering, prompting Lu Yuanqiu to give Bai Qingxia two nose plugs for the exam.
• Tan Le introduced himself to Bai Qingxia as Lu Yuanqiu’s old friend, and Lu Yuanqiu pressed down Tan Le’s hand before he could shake hers.

Lu Yuanqiu tried to pass the Chinese exam, but Tan Le’s repeated farting made it difficult for him to concentrate. The exam continued with Lu Yuanqiu struggling to keep writing while Bai Qingxia watched him with growing concern.

• Su Miaomiao arrived to supervise the exam, woke Zheng Yifeng, and collected the students’ bags with Lu Yuanqiu carrying Bai Qingxia’s backpack.
• Lu Yuanqiu nervously prepared for the Chinese exam and began answering as soon as the whistle sounded.
• Su Miaomiao caught Mao Sheng staring at Lu Yuanqiu, while Zheng Yifeng soon fell asleep again.
• Tan Le farted during the exam, and Lu Yuanqiu pinched his nose while trying to continue writing; Bai Qingxia realized why Lu Yuanqiu had given her nose plugs.
• After about an hour of Tan Le’s rhythmic farting, Lu Yuanqiu trembled over his paper, and Bai Qingxia clasped her hands in worry.

Lu Yuanqiu struggled through the Chinese exam after Tan Le’s fart disrupted him, then ate lunch while Mao Sheng glared at him. He remembered he had brought an old Nokia phone for Bai Qingxia and found her studying alone in a cafeteria corner.

• Bai Qingxia handed Lu Yuanqiu tissues to plug his nose, and he resumed the exam while Mao Sheng dry-heaved nearby.
• Lu Yuanqiu rushed through his essay, then guessed at the remaining questions when time ran out.
• Bai Qingxia ignored Tan Le’s invitation to eat with them and silently studied practice questions instead.
• Lu Yuanqiu and Tan Le ate in the cafeteria, where Mao Sheng stared at Lu Yuanqiu over his grudge about the 800-meter race.
• Lu Yuanqiu remembered the old Nokia phone in his backpack and found Bai Qingxia studying alone in a far corner of the cafeteria.

Lu Yuanqiu found Bai Qingxia trying to repair the broken hair clip while eating only plain rice, then lent her a phone and created her first QQ account. Bai Qingxia treasured the new account and its number, and Lu Yuanqiu asked what nickname she wanted.

• Lu Yuanqiu found Bai Qingxia in a cafeteria corner, carefully gluing together the broken hair clip while eating plain rice and free soup.
• Lu Yuanqiu noticed the superglue had damaged Bai Qingxia's palm and gave her an old Nokia phone to borrow.
• Bai Qingxia accepted the phone after Lu Yuanqiu explained how to answer calls.
• Lu Yuanqiu created a QQ account for Bai Qingxia and read out its number for her to write down.
• Bai Qingxia carefully put the number in her Pencil Case, and Lu Yuanqiu asked what nickname she wanted for the account.

Lu Yuanqiu helped Bai Qingxia choose the QQ nickname “Maple in Summer” and messaged her to eat and head home. At the afternoon math exam, he gave her new nose plugs while Tan Le distracted him with strange math-themed declarations of affection.

• Bai Qingxia chose “Maple in Summer” as her QQ nickname, and Lu Yuanqiu accepted her friend request under “A Leaf Reveals Autumn.”
• Lu Yuanqiu told Bai Qingxia to go home after eating and promised to bring her new nose plugs for the afternoon math exam.
• Bai Qingxia slowly replied to Lu Yuanqiu, packed the rest of her rice, and left No. 7 Middle School for No. 65 Middle School.
• Zhong Jincheng grabbed tissues from Lu Yuanqiu, claiming he needed them to solve a math problem through an obscene ritual.
• Lu Yuanqiu gave Bai Qingxia new nose plugs before the exam, then Tan Le recited math-themed love declarations to him as Bai Qingxia giggled.

Lu Yuanqiu learned he would play in the school basketball tournament and bantered with his classmates during the monthly exam. Afterward, Bai Qingxia went to the supermarket to sell collected bottles, and Lu Tian realized she still wanted the money despite previously refusing it.

• Lu Yuanqiu agreed to enter the school basketball tournament and learned Mao Sheng would guard him for Class 29.
• During the exam, Tan Le farted repeatedly while studying hard, and Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia wore nose plugs.
• After the exam, Lu Yuanqiu compared answers with Tan Le and celebrated that five of his answers matched Bai Qingxia's.
• Bai Qingxia went to Four Seasons Fresh Supermarket to sell the empty bottles, and Lu Tian remembered she had previously declined the money he offered.