Recaps

Kamuro reached the girls’ 100-meter final but finished second behind Kiryuin, then joined Lezheng’s team for the relay. After Horikita was knocked down by a collision, the race continued with Kamuro passing the baton to Lezheng, while Ishikura and Yamada led the remaining runners toward the finish.

• Lezheng encouraged Kamuro before her race and spoke with Kiryuin, who said she had given up leading Class A because it bored her.
• Kiryuin won the girls’ 100-meter final, and Kamuro narrowly took second place.
• Ryuuen led an aggressive pole-toppling strategy, while Sudo charged at Class B and was stopped by Yamada.
• Hirata set the relay order with Sudo, Onodera, Ayanokoji, Horikita, Kamuro, and Lezheng running for their team.
• During her relay leg, Horikita collided with runners on both sides and injured her right leg, but she continued long enough to pass the baton to Kamuro.
• Kamuro sprinted toward Lezheng as Nagumo’s and Horikita Manabu’s teams fell out of contention, leaving Ishikura and Yamada racing toward the finish.

Lezheng won the Mixed-Gender Relay and the Sports Festival’s Best Individual Award, securing victory for the Red Team and raising Class A’s standing. After Nagumo was suspended pending an investigation, Lezheng reviewed candidates for the Student Council and selected Horikita Suzune and Ichinose Honami.

• Lezheng overtook Ishikura at the finish line, winning the Mixed-Gender Relay and giving the Red Team the Sports Festival victory.
• Lezheng Youyan received the Best Individual Award, bringing his private points total to 1.3 million.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng that Ichinose and Horikita’s classes had formed a study group, and Lezheng decided to watch them at the library.
• President Horikita gave Lezheng files on potential first-year Student Council recruits and warned him about Nagumo.
• The school announced that Nagumo had been suspended pending an investigation into alleged misuse of his Student Council position.
• Lezheng reviewed the candidate files and selected Horikita Suzune and Ichinose Honami.

Lezheng accepted Horikita and Ichinose into the Student Council, then went with Shiina to an escape room and solved its first two stages. The final stage ended with them correctly guessing each other’s numbers.

• Lezheng interviewed Horikita and told her that her Student Council application had been accepted.
• Ichinose told Lezheng about stealing a hair clip for her younger sister when her family was struggling, and Lezheng exchanged contact details with her.
• Lezheng and Shiina left the library together to visit an escape room, where they solved the first stage using the clock and oil painting clues.
• Shiina and Lezheng solved the second stage by entering the months corresponding to the four seasons.
• Lezheng and Shiina took turns saying they did not know their numbers, then guessed that Shiina had 4 and Lezheng had 2.

Lezheng became a Student Council vice president and joined the other students for an eight-day mixed training camp special exam. After students formed high-multiplier groups, Nagumo challenged Horikita Manabu to a bet, but Lezheng raised concerns that made Horikita reconsider.

• Horikita Manabu announced the upcoming three-year off-campus exam and appointed Lezheng as a second vice president alongside Nagumo.
• Mashima explained the mixed training camp rules, including group formation, four final tests, rewards, and the risk of expulsion for the lowest-scoring group.
• Lezheng, Sakayanagi, Katsuragi, and Takimura agreed to cooperate, then Lezheng and Ryuuen formed groups using the highest multiplier.
• Nagumo challenged Horikita Manabu to a bet on whose boys' group would rank higher, with each promising to recognize the other's standing if they lost.
• Lezheng warned Horikita Manabu that Nagumo might target the girls and mentioned Nagumo's closeness with Ishikura, prompting Horikita to reconsider the bet.

During the mixed training camp, Lezheng and Horikita Manabu investigated Nagumo’s control over the second years while Lezheng learned that Tachibana was being targeted. The chapter ended with Lezheng agreeing to show Nagumo what strength meant and discussing how to deal with Tachibana’s isolation.

• Lezheng and Horikita Manabu formed a group and agreed to ask Tachibana about the situation among the girls.
• At lunch, Sakayanagi told Lezheng that Ichinose had joined the Class D girls’ group, and the group began camp activities and cooking duties.
• Nagumo offered Lezheng twenty million Private Points to give up the Student Council presidency, and Lezheng challenged him to meet the following night.
• Lezheng caught Sakayanagi when Yamauchi knocked away her cane, then handed it back and escorted her away.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng that Tachibana was in trouble, and Lezheng guessed that the girls were isolating her and planned to blame her for failure.

Lezheng beat Nagumo in a one-on-one fight after Nagumo tried to blind him with powder, and Nagumo later disguised his bloody nose as an accident. The training camp’s boys’ bathhouse ended in a chaotic contest, with Lezheng making a spectacle of himself before Ryuuen kicked him into the hot spring.

• Lezheng became the trusted leader of his group as the students continued the camp’s curriculum, while his classmates admired his abilities and recalled that he had saved a student from falling down a mountain.
• Lezheng fought Nagumo, dodged the powder Nagumo threw, and knocked him unconscious with a punch; Nagumo woke with a bloody nose and threatened to remember him.
• On the day off, students heard that Nagumo had blamed his bloody nose on a nighttime fall, and Lezheng chatted with Shiina through the fence between the activity areas.
• Nagumo visited Lezheng’s room with Kiriyama, Tsunoda, and Ishikura, left behind a warning about nighttime trips to the bathroom, and Lezheng joined Yahiko and the others in their card game.
• At the boys’ bathhouse, students compared themselves in a rowdy display, and Lezheng declared himself the winner with his “super Tyrannosaurus rex.”
• Ryuuen sneaked behind Lezheng and kicked him into the hot spring, prompting Lezheng to curse at him.

Lezheng dealt with Nagumo’s attacks on Tsukimi and his classmates, then learned that Tachibana faced possible expulsion. The chapter ended with Lezheng fighting Nagumo and his group again, armed with a wooden stick.

• At the hot spring, Ichinose discussed her Valentine’s Day chocolates, while Karuizawa hid her disappointment over not knowing whether Lezheng would accept hers.
• Lezheng found the injured Tsukimi after Nagumo’s group attacked him and helped him return.
• Lezheng confronted Nagumo on the forest route, defeated his ten lackeys, and warned Nagumo against targeting his classmates.
• Horikita Manabu questioned Lezheng about Nagumo’s group taking leave, and Lezheng asked how Tachibana could avoid expulsion after learning the required Class Points and Private Points.
• After Igari and others argued with Tachibana, Nagumo’s group attacked Lezheng; he fought them off, knocked Nagumo down, and picked up a wooden stick.

After defeating Miyabi Nagumo and more than thirty second-year boys, Lezheng hid his injuries behind a story about falling and continued preparing his group for the exam. He recruited Tachibana and Horikita Suzune into a plan to make Nagumo lose a large amount of Private Points.

• Lezheng went to the infirmary, where Hoshinomiya treated his injuries and asked him to keep Sae Chasuke’s class in Class D; Lezheng repeatedly insisted he had fallen.
• Katsuragi noticed Lezheng’s injuries and a footprint on his sleeve, and Lezheng promised to take him along next time.
• On the seventh morning, Horikita Manabu recognized that Lezheng had fought Nagumo, while the school investigated the second-year boys’ mass absences and added nighttime patrols.
• Lezheng assigned Forest Relay sections to his group and practiced with its fifteen members after preparing them for the other exam events.
• Shiina accepted Lezheng’s claim that he had fallen, while Ryuuen questioned him about Nagumo and invited him to transfer to his class.
• Lezheng gave Tachibana mushrooms to put in breakfast and persuaded Horikita Suzune to help tamper with Asahina’s group’s food as part of his plan against Nagumo.

The mixed training camp ended with Nagumo losing influence and Lezheng becoming the likely next Student Council President. Sakayanagi then revealed that her father, the school Chairman, had been suspended after the White Room made its move, leaving Lezheng searching for information about it.

• Nagumo learned that his second-year boys had been injured and that two girls' groups had failed, while Tachibana avoided expulsion by completing the tests alone.
• Igari and Asahina each designated a Class D student for expulsion, and Nagumo decided not to spend private points to save Igari.
• Class 1-A's large group placed first, the girls' group placed third, and the school announced the classes' final point totals.
• Horikita Manabu asked Lezheng about the breakfast sabotage, and Lezheng credited Horikita Suzune; Sakayanagi later teased Lezheng on the bus while Kamuro discovered his injury was fake.
• After the camp, Nagumo lost forty million private points and rumors about him spread as Lezheng's Student Council presidency became likely.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng that her father, the Chairman, had been suspended because the White Room had made its move, and Lezheng searched online for information about it.

Lezheng received chocolates from several girls on Valentine’s Day, then welcomed Karuizawa to his dorm room, where she brought him handmade chocolates and shared news about tensions in Class D. The chapter ended with Lezheng warning Karuizawa that Miyabi Nagumo was trying to entice their classmates with Private Points.

• Kamuro and Yamamura gave Lezheng chocolates, and other girls followed; Kamuro’s wasabi prank failed before she gave him a normal box.
• Ichinose gave Lezheng handmade chocolates, while Shiranami Chihiro watched them and felt dejected.
• Karuizawa made chocolates for Lezheng, avoided shopping with Matsushita and Shinohara, and went to his dorm room as Kushida secretly watched her.
• Karuizawa told Lezheng that Hirata and Horikita were at odds and that many girls in Class D had become hostile toward Horikita.
• Lezheng warned Karuizawa that Miyabi Nagumo was approaching Class D students and might be trading help for their secrets.

Lezheng spent Valentine’s Day with Shiina, then met the new Acting Chairman, Tsunenari Tsukishiro, as the Student Council’s secretary role passed to Ichinose. A sudden first-year Special Exam put expulsion and a one-time exemption voucher on the line, and Lezheng settled on Kanji Ike as the Class D student to target with criticism votes.

• Lezheng accepted Shiina’s homemade chocolates, watched Flipped with her, and received a pair of embroidered gloves before they shared an umbrella back to the dorms.
• Tsunenari Tsukishiro introduced himself to the Student Council, and Lezheng later encouraged Ichinose in her new role as secretary.
• Lezheng told Ichinose he expected a Special Exam soon and discussed the class balance, Sakayanagi, and Ayanokoji.
• The school announced a first-year Special Exam in which the most praised student in each class earned an expulsion-exemption voucher and the most criticized student was expelled.
• Lezheng and Sakayanagi agreed to direct their class’s praise and criticism votes toward her, then Lezheng chose Kanji Ike as the Class D student to receive criticism votes.

Lezheng arranged for Class D to praise-vote Kanji Ike and advised Karuizawa’s group on how to protect themselves during the voting exam. Yamauchi was exposed for leaking Class D’s information, lost the vote, and was expelled after Hashimoto failed to transfer him to Class A.

• Lezheng met Ryuuen and arranged for Classes C and D to give praise votes to Kanji Ike, with Ichinose agreeing to cooperate.
• Lezheng advised Karuizawa to let her group exchange praise votes and coordinate their criticism votes.
• On the third day of voting, news and photos surfaced of Yamauchi meeting Hashimoto, and Yamauchi admitted his plan to join Class A while mocking Class D.
• Yamauchi spent his private points and claimed Lezheng would protect him, but Sudo nearly struck him before Horikita stopped Sudo.
• Chasuke announced that Ike had the highest score and Yamauchi the lowest, making Yamauchi subject to expulsion.
• Yamauchi discovered Hashimoto had sent no transfer points, accused others of stealing them, and was restrained by security guards as Ayanokoji watched.

After Horikita Manabu graduated, Class A prepared for the Command Tower Exam, where Sakayanagi asked Lezheng to help her face Class D and challenge Ayanokoji in chess. Horikita’s class planned its events cautiously, while Lezheng’s role as a potential Command Tower remained central to their strategy.

• Lezheng reviewed the Command Tower Exam rules and saw Horikita Manabu graduate, then watched Horikita Suzune speak with her brother and cut her hair short.
• After the third-years left, Sakayanagi named Class D as Class A’s target and asked Lezheng to support her as Command Tower in exchange for placing her people under his command.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng that the new Chairman worked under Ayanokoji’s father and that her own father was under investigation.
• Ayanokoji arrived on the rooftop, and Sakayanagi challenged him to a chess match for the exam; afterward, she told Lezheng about her childhood.
• Horikita rejected Sudo’s proposal to make basketball a main event, and Koenji argued that Lezheng’s athletic abilities made sports a poor choice unless Lezheng served as Command Tower.

Lezheng prepared and delivered return gifts to the girls who had given him chocolates, while Class D discussed their upcoming match against Class A. The chapter ended with Kamuro discovering that Lezheng had given her a malfunctioning hair dryer.

• Horikita asked Class D to list their niche hobbies, and Hirata and Kushida helped calm the class as they discussed the Class A match.
• Lezheng rejected Tsukishiro’s proposed OAA System, then practiced baking cookies and considered gifts for the girls who had given him chocolates.
• Lezheng gave Yamamura and Kamuro gifts, including a keychain for Yamamura and a hair dryer for Kamuro.
• Lezheng gave Ichinose a bracelet and other gifts, and she gave him a knitted hat in return.
• Lezheng gave Karuizawa hair accessories and met Shiina at the mall, where they took purikura photos together.
• Kamuro tried the hair dryer Lezheng had given her and realized it was defective.

Ayanokoji devised a way for Horikita's class to draw Lezheng into an obscure event, while Sakayanagi prepared Class A's lineup around his strength. Lezheng sought Kiryuin's help in restoring Chairman Sakayanagi and revealed his exceptional school records; Kiryuin said the Chairman would return no earlier than after winter break.

• Ayanokoji told Horikita that Sakayanagi wanted to face him in chess and suggested submitting obscure events so Class A might assign Lezheng to one, giving Sudo a chance to compete against the remaining lineup.
• Sakayanagi chose five main events for Class A, including mathematics, English, model repair, judo, and chess, while reserving Lezheng and other students to face Class D.
• Lezheng asked Kiryuin to help bring Chairman Sakayanagi back, and she agreed in exchange for seeing his school ratings.
• Lezheng showed Kiryuin his confidential file, which listed four A+ ratings, and said he had completed Ozaki's Eight Items with a team as its referee.
• Kiryuin told Lezheng the Chairman would return after winter break at the earliest, then Ichinose asked to see her own file.

Class A and Class D competed in the drawn events, trading wins before Lezheng Youyan and Matsushita Chiaki faced off in Mizuhiki Craft. Matsushita finished six knots and part of a seventh, then saw that Lezheng had made nine, leaving the match’s result unannounced.

• Class A and Class D drew seven events, including Mizuhiki Craft, chess, and basketball.
• Horikita defeated Kamuro in Knife Skills, while Class A won the mathematics and English exams.
• Takimura completed Class D’s models before Class D finished its third, earning the class a Model Repair victory.
• With Class A leading three to one, Matsushita Chiaki and Lezheng Youyan began the Mizuhiki Craft match.
• Matsushita stopped after making six knots and part of a seventh, then saw nine knots on Lezheng’s table.

Lezheng’s Class A secured victory in the Command Tower Exam after he defeated Sakayanagi in chess, while Class B also beat Class C. As winter break began, Lezheng and Shiina spent time shopping and reading together, while Nagumo hinted at a future challenge.

• Lezheng defeated Matsushita in the Mizuhiki knot match, and Sudo narrowly won the basketball match for Class A.
• Ayanokoji and Hashimoto stalled through the first half of the chess match before Ayanokoji defeated Sakayanagi in the Command Tower control room.
• Class A finished its matchup against Class D with an overall victory, and Class B beat Class C 4-3; no students were expelled.
• Lezheng learned that Ryuuen had used laxatives to undermine Class C’s exam participants.
• During the break, Lezheng and Shiina shopped for spring clothes, where Nagumo hinted that he had prepared a gift for Lezheng.
• Lezheng and Shiina browsed new books together in the library.

Karuizawa’s friends discovered that the charm on her bag came from Lezheng, and she introduced him as her cousin before inviting him to meet them. Their staged outing brought their relationship into the open, while Karuizawa’s growing affection for Lezheng showed through during dessert.

• Matsushita recognized Lezheng’s blue charm on Karuizawa’s bag, and Karuizawa told her friends that Lezheng was her cousin.
• Karuizawa called Lezheng and invited him to meet her classmates at a dessert shop, where Sato, Matsushita, and Mori Nene questioned him.
• Lezheng and Karuizawa encountered several familiar students at the shop, including Manabe and Kushida.
• Karuizawa offered Lezheng some of her banana cake, and he realized she was departing from the plan they had made to reveal their relationship.
• Lezheng recalled that he had agreed to the staged reveal after thinking about Nagumo’s remarks, while Karuizawa felt her affection for him growing.

Lezheng rebuffed Kushida when she approached him to make friends, then helped Sakayanagi review her chess match and explained his rejected proposal to make the school fairer by reshuffling classes each semester. The chapter ended with Sakayanagi considering how radical the plan was while Lezheng accepted that the school board had blocked it.

• Kushida sat with Lezheng and Karuizawa, learned that Lezheng was Karuizawa's older brother, and left after Karuizawa told her she was unwelcome.
• Karuizawa warned Lezheng to stay away from Kushida, while Nagumo wondered whether Lezheng had seen through his plan.
• Sakayanagi woke Lezheng and asked whether he had approached Fuka Kiryuin; later, Lezheng found the homemade chocolates she had left for him.
• Sakayanagi returned in the afternoon, and Lezheng reviewed her chess match, showing her alternatives to Queen Sacrifice Check.
• Sakayanagi asked whether Lezheng and Karuizawa were siblings, then heard about his proposal to reshuffle classes every semester and decide Class A through a final match.
• Lezheng explained that Tsukishiro had supported his proposal, but the other school board members had rejected it.

Before the Joint Written Exam began, Lezheng recruited Kyo Ishigami as his first-year partner and watched students form cross-year pairs. When Kazuomi Housen started a fight in the cafeteria, Lezheng knocked him out and dragged him away.

• Lezheng reviewed the incoming students’ records and asked Ryuuen about Kazuomi Housen, learning that Housen was a well-known delinquent from Ryuuen’s area.
• At the welcoming ceremony, Lezheng introduced the Joint Written Exam, which paired one second-year with one first-year and threatened both with expulsion if their combined score was 500 or lower.
• Lezheng paired with Kyo Ishigami, and other students began registering their own cross-year partnerships.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng that her father had revised the exam rules and that Tsukishiro would leave after the exam.
• At the cafeteria, Housen provoked Ryuuen’s group and attacked Sudo and Ibuki before Lezheng intervened.
• Housen tried to punch Lezheng, but Lezheng struck him unconscious and dragged him away as Miyabi Nagumo watched.

Lezheng secured a reduced punishment for Hosen after arguing with Tsukishiro and Sakayanagi, then returned to Ichinose, who checked his hands with growing affection. The next day, Lezheng announced Hosen’s punishment and watched students discuss the fight while he bantered with Kamuro and noticed Yagami had teamed up with Kushida.

• Nanase found Hosen in the security office after he woke, and told him Tsukishiro would try to lessen his punishment.
• Lezheng and Sakayanagi rejected Tsukishiro’s attempt to excuse Hosen, then agreed to suspend Hosen for a month, withhold his Private Points for three months, and place him alone in the Special Exam group.
• Sakayanagi asked Lezheng how he had persuaded the Kiryuin family to help, and later wondered with Arisu whether Lezheng had an undiscovered background.
• Ichinose waited for Lezheng, examined his hands, and repeatedly held them while they waited for the elevator.
• Lezheng posted Hosen’s punishment on the school website, drawing attention and arguments from students, then traded remarks with Kamuro in class.
• Lezheng noticed that Yagami had formed a group with Kushida.

Lezheng earned full marks in all five subjects on the special exam, boosting Class A’s standing and his reputation across the school. After Nanase, Yagami, and Amasawa discussed their failed attempt to expel him, Lezheng met Shiina for a detective-themed photo shoot while Amasawa watched them.

• Lezheng and Ichinose accepted Utsunomiya Michi and Tsubaki Sakurako’s Student Council applications and asked why they wanted to join.
• Mashima announced that no students had been expelled, and the results showed Lezheng had scored 100 in all five subjects.
• The school awarded Lezheng 110,000 private points, 50 class points, and an additional 1,000,000 private points, while Class A finished with 2,487 class points.
• Nanase, Yagami, and Amasawa discussed failing to get Lezheng expelled, and Yagami said he would continue prioritizing the mission.
• Lezheng met Shiina, and they dressed as detectives for a photo shoot while Amasawa began secretly following them.

Lezheng and Shiina took wedding photos and returned to his room, where he confronted Amasawa for following them. A month later, Hosen resumed control of Class 1-D, while Karuizawa and Ichinose competed for Lezheng’s attention as Amasawa watched; the chapter ended with the narrator considering changes to the deserted-island survival rules.

• Lezheng and Shiina took wedding photos, and Shiina asked him to make her egg fried rice when they returned to the dorm.
• Lezheng waited outside Room 321 and confronted Amasawa Ichika for following him, then told Shiina about it.
• A month later, Hosen was released, and the first-year classes had established their leaders, including Housen as Class 1-D’s leader with Nanase as his deputy.
• Karuizawa asked Lezheng for help with homework and gave him a homemade lunch, then noticed two other lunch boxes in his schoolbag.
• Ichinose joined Lezheng and Karuizawa, asked Lezheng to teach her a Mizuhiki knot while holding her hands, and prompted Karuizawa to ask for the same treatment.
• Amasawa watched Lezheng, Karuizawa, and Ichinose interacting while the narrator considered changing the deserted-island survival rules.

Lezheng learned the rules for a two-week, whole-grade deserted island exam and faced competing offers from students seeking his help. He accepted Ayanokoji’s Trial Card in exchange for a promise to help against Tsukishiro, then heard from Kiryuin about the White Room and Ayanokoji’s father.

• The school announced a two-week deserted island exam for all grades, with groups facing possible expulsion and withdrawals incurring a six-million-point debt.
• Ryuuen, Ichinose, Kanzaki, and Horikita each approached Lezheng about teaming up, but he chose to participate solo; Sakayanagi and Katsuragi offered to cooperate as Class A.
• Hosen demanded two million private points to cooperate with Yagami and Utsunomiya, then left after they rejected his condition for a merged group.
• Ayanokoji offered Lezheng a Trial Card in exchange for help when Tsukishiro made a move against him on the island, and Lezheng agreed to help within his abilities.
• Kiryuin challenged Lezheng to a contest and told him that Atsuomi Ayanokoji, Ayanokoji’s father, stood behind the White Room and had called his son its masterpiece.

Lezheng began the deserted-island survival exam alone, quickly earning points and completing a math task before catching a fish near I5. The chapter ended with him carrying his catch and jokingly asking others how they knew he had caught one.

• Before the exam, Lezheng and Shiina promised to look out for each other, while Mashima explained the scoring, equipment, routes, and withdrawal rules.
• Sakayanagi told Lezheng she wanted to participate this time, and he agreed to let her and Katsuragi handle personnel assignments while he listened to their plans.
• After setting off from A1, Lezheng reached H6 first for ten points and then registered for the math task at G10.
• Lezheng finished the math quiz with full marks while other students were still answering, astonishing Yukimura and Kushida when they saw him.
• At I5, Lezheng found the task slots full, then caught a fish in a nearby stream and carried it on his bag.