Recaps

At the alumni gathering, Zhang Yaqi revealed that Su Can was a cofounder of Facebook, stunning the Tsinghua entrepreneurs and provoking Du Ke, whose Thousand Friends was struggling against Facebook. Su Can stayed at the gathering as Zhao Hao announced that Facebook would invest in three Tsinghua companies, leaving the group to absorb the reversal in status.

• Zhang Yaqi hinted that Facebook’s homepage credited both Mark and Su, then identified Su Can as the cofounder.
• Du Ke realized that the rival behind Facebook was present, tried to leave, and was stopped by Bing Jianfeng.
• Su Can challenged Du Ke to leave, and Du Ke stormed out after vowing that Thousand Friends would surpass Facebook.
• Ke Mengfei greeted Su Can warmly, while Chen Lingshan and Wang Tie reacted to Su Can’s newfound presence and the gathering’s changed mood.
• Zhao Hao arrived with Sun Zhiyi and Yang Qidong and announced that Facebook would invest in their companies.
• A TEG senior member claimed Du Ke had left early after drinking too much, while the Tsinghua group raised their glasses awkwardly.

At the Shangshi Summit banquet, Su Can’s investment in Tsinghua students’ ventures leaves the Nanjing University group triumphant and TEG members frustrated. As the evening ends beneath fireworks, Chen Lingshan reunites with Su Can, learns he and Tang Wu are together, and confesses she would have told him she liked him if she could live her life over.

• Su Can’s words prompt Du Ke to leave the banquet, and the Nanjing University group celebrates its comeback while Tsinghua’s TEG members complain about his investments.
• Liao Dong accuses Zhang Yaqi of exploiting TEG’s situation and worries that Su Can’s investments could drag Zhao Hao, Yang Qidong, and the others down.
• Chen Lingshan and Wang Tie watch Su Can from the lobby, where Wang Tie admits he acted too harshly toward him at her request.
• Su Can and Chen Lingshan walk together during the fireworks, reminisce about the past, and agree she will visit Nanjing University another time.
• Chen Lingshan asks whether people can live their lives over and says she would have told Su Can she liked him, while Su Can confirms that things are very good between him and Tang Wu.

After Chen Lingshan confessed her feelings and left, Su Can continued building connections with Tsinghua entrepreneurs while returning to his routine at Nanjing University. A week later, Zhao Hao told him that SAIF Investment had persuaded Sun Zhiyi and Yang Qidong to accept its funding instead, leaving Su Can facing a sudden setback.

• Chen Lingshan told Su Can that her feelings had nothing to do with romantic love, then left Shanghai without staying overnight.
• Su Can noticed Ye Huishang meeting Liu Zhensheng and others, and felt uneasy when Ye avoided acknowledging him.
• Su Can returned to his ordinary routine at Nanjing University while discussing investment plans with Zhao Hao and other Tsinghua entrepreneurs.
• Su Can waited several days for the entrepreneurs to develop business proposals and began to suspect something had gone wrong.
• Zhao Hao told Su Can that SAIF Investment had approached the group again and that Sun Zhiyi and Yang Qidong had agreed to accept its investment.

Lin Guangdong told Su Can that Liu Zhensheng’s SAIF Investments had taken over three companies Su Can was negotiating with, prompting Su Can to suspect Ye Huishang had helped arrange the move. Su Can confronted Ye Huishang by phone, and the chapter ended with her asking what he meant by calling her an actress.

• Lin Guangdong told Su Can that SAIF had invested in three companies Su Can had been pursuing, despite its poor record with similar investments.
• Su Can realized Liu Zhensheng’s moves seemed aimed at blocking him and recalled Ye Huishang introducing him to Liu at the summit.
• Su Can called Wang Weiwei and asked for Ye Huishang’s number, and Wang Weiwei sensed that something was wrong.
• Su Can called Ye Huishang at a rally practice track in Shanghai, and she answered with teasing remarks.
• Su Can told Ye Huishang she was a very good actress, and her playful expression froze as she asked what he meant.

Su Can confronted Ye Huishang over his suspicion that she had helped Liu Zhensheng take an investment deal, but her explanation left him unsure whether he had misjudged her. Zhao Hao then explained how the other entrepreneurs had switched to Liu Zhensheng’s offer, while he stayed with Su Can, who planned to invest in Shangmai Company.

• Su Can accused Ye Huishang of betraying him by helping Liu Zhensheng take the investment opportunity at the Shangshi Summit.
• Ye Huishang admitted meeting Liu Zhensheng and the Tsinghua people, then said she had tried to keep Su Can away from a dangerous situation; a friend took her phone and ended the call.
• Zhao Hao told Su Can that Liu Zhensheng had approached Sun Zhiyi and Yang Qidong with backing from a Commerce Bureau official, and that they had chosen SAIF Investment despite their misgivings.
• Su Can accepted Zhao Hao’s account and decided to invest five million in Shangmai Company for a thirty-percent stake, leaving Zhao Hao in control of the company.

Su Can learned from Zhao Hao that Tsinghua’s entrepreneurs had misread his clash with Du Ke and credited Safe’s founders with restraining him, while their rivalry with him continued to grow. Amid rumors about his dispute with Ye Huishang and his friends’ support, Su Can spent a lighter moment teasing Lin Luoran and his dormmates before settling into a temporary breather at university.

• Su Can and Zhao Hao discussed the Shangshi Summit, and Zhao Hao explained that Tsinghua’s circle believed Safe’s Ke Mengfei and Bing Jianfeng had stopped Su Can from ruining Du Ke.
• Su Can realized that the Tsinghua entrepreneurs had been privately building a reputation for him as a ruthless adversary, and he felt urgency to advance his plans.
• Su Can learned that his phone call to Ye Huishang had stirred rumors and conflict among their social circles, while Lin Luoran, Wang Weiwei, and Lin Zouwen firmly supported him.
• Lin Luoran joked with Su Can about the young men who fawned over Ye Huishang, and Su Can’s dormmates joined their phone conversation and invited her to visit again.
• After Liu Zhensheng’s disruption and Yang Qidong, Sun Zhiyi, and others defected, Su Can rested at university and quietly waited for his opportunity.

Su Can learned that Liu Zhensheng had disrupted his business plans as part of Zhan Hua’s faction, prompting him to investigate their past alliance and consider how to respond. He chose to preserve his resources and keep developing, confident that their efforts to obstruct him would not derail his plans.

• Ye Huishang called Su Can to deny that she was allied with Liu Zhensheng and warned him that Liu had powerful connections.
• Lin Guangdong told Su Can that Liu Zhensheng and Zhan Hua had joined forces during the takeover of Sibico, with Liu first acting as a white knight before turning on the company’s leadership.
• Su Can concluded that Liu Zhensheng was acting for Zhan Hua, who was trying to force him into new ventures that could be targeted.
• Lin Guangdong proposed striking back, but Su Can rejected the idea as too costly and said their priority was building their capital and continuing to develop.

Lin Luoran began calling Su Can each morning to study foreign languages with him, then visited Nanjing University for the weekend. She arrived and quickly drew the attention of Su Can’s dormmates, while she and Tang Wu greeted each other warmly.

• Lin Luoran arranged to call Su Can at five thirty each morning so they could memorize foreign-language texts together.
• Su Can’s dormmates celebrated when Lin Luoran said she would visit Nanjing University for the weekend.
• Su Can, Tang Wu, and several eager dormmates went to the campus gate to meet Lin Luoran on Saturday afternoon.
• Lin Luoran and Tang Wu walked arm in arm while Huang Ying and Joe Adam chatted with Lin Luoran and tried to impress her.
• Su Can watched Lin Luoran smiling and wondered how long she would keep pretending to be so gentle.

Sun Zhiyi, Yang Qidong, and their companion sought investment from Liu Zhensheng, who offered punishing terms as part of a plan connected to Su Can. Later, Su Can spent the day at Nanjing University with Tang Wu, Lin Luoran, and his friends, and the chapter ended with Tang Wu agreeing to stay with Su Can in Lin Luoran’s hotel room.

• Sun Zhiyi, Yang Qidong, and their companion waited for hours at SAIF Investment before Liu Zhensheng met them and laid out harsh investment conditions.
• Liu Zhensheng told Zhan Hua that he would deal with the three visitors while pursuing their investment, and he discussed making Su Can pay for taking a share of his business in the United States.
• Lin Luoran teased Su Can about checking out girls on campus, and Tang Wu reacted with amusement as the group walked around Nanjing University.
• Su Can, Tang Wu, Lin Luoran, and their friends ate grilled fish and drank together before Huang Ying and Qiao Yan got Lin Luoran’s phone number and left.
• Su Can and his friends played cards with Tang Wu and Lin Luoran at Lin Luoran’s hotel, where the girls defeated them.
• Lin Luoran asked Su Can and Tang Wu to stay because she was afraid to be alone, and Tang Wu agreed.

Su Can discussed his growing business plans and Facebook’s expansion with Lin Luoran and Tang Wu, while Lin Luoran offered support from her family. As Lin Luoran’s help and closeness with Su Can unsettled Tang Wu, Tang Wu withdrew to shower, leaving Su Can sensing her hurt.

• Zhang Xiaoqiao, Li Han, and Xiao Xu left Lin Luoran’s hotel room after misunderstanding her invitation to Su Can and Tang Wu.
• Lin Luoran told Su Can that Li Luo admired him and that her Beijing friends were impressed by his success.
• Su Can explained Facebook’s growth and his plan to launch a Chinese social network, and Lin Luoran offered to arrange a meeting with Gong Shouren through her father.
• Lin Luoran went to shower, and Tang Wu acknowledged how much Lin Luoran had helped Su Can.
• Su Can offered to repay Lin Luoran with money or shares, but Tang Wu lowered her head with visible inner conflict before saying she would shower.

Su Can secured Zack’s approval for Facebook Chinese’s equity structure and recruited Qiao Shuxin to help lead the venture in China. After meeting Qiao Shuxin at Pudong Airport, Su Can took him to Nanjing University’s Crowne Plaza Hotel to begin planning the new company.

• Su Can and Tang Wu ate breakfast with Lin Luoran, who left after urging him to make Facebook Chinese succeed.
• Su Can read Qiao Shuxin’s email and discussed recruiting him and launching Facebook Chinese with Zack.
• Su Can proposed a Facebook Chinese ownership structure with forty percent held by Facebook and sixty percent by a domestic company, and Zack agreed.
• Lin Guangdong drove Su Can to Pudong Airport, where Su Can met Qiao Shuxin returning from California.
• Su Can introduced Qiao Shuxin to Lin Guangdong and arranged for him to stay at Nanjing University’s Crowne Plaza Hotel while they planned Facebook Chinese.

Su Can secured funding for Shangmai and helped Qiao Shuxin choose an office for Facebook Chinese in Shanghai, setting plans in motion for the new company. After a busy day, Su Can and Tang Wu shared a tender good-night call.

• Zhao Hao outlined Shangmai’s plans to buy music copyrights and develop mobile ringback tones, and Lin Guangdong arranged for its initial funding to be delivered.
• Su Can reassured Lin Guangdong that Qiao Shuxin could build Facebook Chinese by telling him a story about Facebook’s hacker recruitment.
• Su Can and Qiao Shuxin chose an 800-square-meter office in the Meiluo Building, and Su Can signed a one-year lease.
• Su Can asked Lin Guangdong to help arrange renovations and recruit employees, while Qiao Shuxin thanked him for his help.
• Su Can told Tang Wu by text that the office had been selected, and they ended the day by wishing each other good night over the phone.

As graduation approached, Tang Wu’s dormmates discussed the seniors leaving university and learned that Facebook Chinese was recruiting in Nanjing. Su Can and Qiao Shuxin prepared to hire their first staff, but the fair began with few applicants, leaving its prospects uncertain.

• Tong Tong, Ruan Si'ou, and Cheng Congcong talked about the end of freshman year and the seniors’ plans after graduation.
• Cheng Congcong and Tong Tong noticed that Facebook Chinese was listed at a graduate recruitment fair and wondered whether Su Can had created it.
• Su Can arranged recruitment advertisements and flyers for Facebook Chinese, seeking fifty staff members, including thirty through campus recruitment.
• Qiao Shuxin arrived early at the hotel to oversee the fair, while Su Can joined her as a final judge.
• Su Can and Qiao Shuxin saw that few applicants had arrived before the interviews began and worried the fair might fail.

Su Can watched Facebook Chinese’s recruitment fair draw a huge crowd while fielding pressure from officials trying to place their relatives in the fledgling company. When Liu Zhensheng arrived with a powerful-looking man, Su Can realized the interference was connected to his conflict with Zhan Hua and that Facebook Chinese was being targeted.

• Su Can worried that Facebook Chinese’s limited hiring and substantial investment made the recruitment fair crucial, while several officials called to demand special treatment for their recommended candidates.
• Students and job seekers streamed into the Holiday Inn, and Qiao Shuxin called Su Can to report the unexpectedly large turnout.
• A young man arrived in a BMW, boasting that Director Gong was his uncle and that a note from him would secure a job.
• Su Can grew angry at the attempts to bypass interviews and wondered why so many people were interfering with Facebook Chinese.
• Liu Zhensheng arrived with a tall middle-aged man, ignored Su Can, and confirmed Su Can’s suspicion that the pressure was part of a larger effort tied to Zhan Hua and his business interests.

Su Can’s recruitment event descended into a police dispute after two groups of applicants fought over the queue, while Liu Zhensheng and Yan Lufeng watched from the tea lounge and considered how to pressure Facebook Chinese. Tang Wu’s grandparents and their connections intervened, the police took the other applicants away, and Liu and Yan were left stunned when Su Can joined the elders upstairs.

• Yan Lufeng and Liu Zhensheng discussed Facebook Chinese and Liu’s plan to use official pressure against the company.
• Su Can refused to give special treatment to applicants with letters of introduction, then went to investigate a fight between Wang Biao’s group and applicants from Shanghai University.
• Li Xuan called the police, and Jia Guangyi arrived and prepared to take the people involved and company representatives to the station.
• Tang Wu arrived with her grandparents, and Lü Changshu identified himself and helped shift the police response against Wang Biao’s group.
• Elder Mu welcomed Su Can upstairs and said she would not let anyone bully him, while Secretary-General Fan’s arrival made Yan Lufeng visibly uneasy.
• Liu Zhensheng learned that Elder Mu was Mu Qin, a former deputy governor and executive vice principal of the Central Party School.

Su Can attended a gathering with Tang Wu’s influential grandparents, whose presence shielded him and changed how powerful people viewed him as Facebook Chinese rose. After hiring its first fifty employees, Su Can received a conciliatory call from Gong Yaohui, who feared the consequences of offending him.

• Su Can met Tang Wu’s grandparents and learned about Mu Qin’s delegation and its plans for a cadre training institute in Pudong.
• Su Can reflected on Facebook Chinese’s rise and briefly shared a flirtatious hand squeeze with Tang Wu beneath the table.
• Facebook Chinese extended its interviews and hired its first fifty employees, forming the core of its founding team.
• Lin Guangdong told Su Can that he had given Gong Yaohui his number after Gong asked for it.
• Gong Yaohui apologized to Su Can for his relative’s misconduct and proposed meeting, then panicked when he realized he had not properly replaced the phone receiver.

Facebook Chinese opened its new headquarters, where Su Can addressed employees who doubted whether such a young founder could lead them. He called for a simple, politics-free workplace focused on helping every employee build a slightly better life, and the chapter left him receiving sustained applause.

• Facebook Chinese completed renovations at its Meiluo Building headquarters and welcomed fifty new employees, along with visitors from Facebook's United States headquarters led by Dustin.
• Qiao Shuxin told Su Can that some employees doubted his youth and experience, so Su Can agreed to address them at the company's first official briefing.
• Su Can admitted that many employees had more experience than he did and said he would serve the team by providing the resources they needed.
• Su Can set out his principle of simple working relationships without office politics and urged employees to focus their energy on their work.
• Su Can said Facebook Chinese should help employees afford homes, cars, and security for their families, then received growing, sustained applause.

Su Can oversaw Facebook Chinese’s growing staff and campus promotion plans while Tang Wu visited the company and saw how far it had come. The chapter ended with the two sharing a quiet moment on the Sky Garden balcony as Tang Wu told him, “I have you.”

• Zhang Lanzhi presented Facebook Chinese’s university promotion pilot plan, which targeted universities in Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai.
• Su Can continued coordinating company plans as Facebook Chinese’s technical team neared completion of its adaptation of the American site’s architecture.
• Su Can brought Tang Wu to the company, where employees noticed her and privately discussed Su Can’s youth, the company’s prospects, and its powerful connections.
• Su Can showed Tang Wu the Sky Garden and explained his ambitions for Facebook Chinese, while she praised his progress.
• Tang Wu told Su Can that she had him, and he said it was the most beautiful thing he had heard since starting the company.

Su Can and Tang Wu visited her grandparents, Mu Qin and Old Master Qian, whose presence had helped ease resistance to Facebook Chinese. The chapter ended with Old Master Qian inviting Su Can to play Chinese chess before dinner.

• Su Can reflected on his studies, Facebook Chinese, and how Mu Qin’s standing had helped blunt opposition from Liu Zhensheng and Zhan Hua.
• Su Can and Tang Wu went to Xuehai Yiju for dinner with her grandparents.
• Mu Qin welcomed them and returned to preparing dinner while Tang Wu helped her in the kitchen.
• Su Can greeted Old Master Qian, who was tending plants on the balcony, then sat beside the Chinese chess set.
• Old Master Qian finished tending the plants and invited Su Can to play Chinese chess.

Su Can attended a meal at Tang Wu’s home with Mu Qin and Old Master Qian, weighing the danger their influence posed to his relationship and businesses. Tang Wu openly praised his company, and Mu Qin asked about its early difficulties, leaving Su Can to wonder whether the elders were beginning to acknowledge or help him.

• Su Can played chess with Old Master Qian while Tang Wu and Mu Qin prepared dinner, and he reflected on his family and the elders’ formidable influence.
• Over dinner, Su Can considered how the Mu Family elders’ approval or disapproval could affect his future and Facebook Chinese.
• Old Master Qian criticized Su Can’s chess, and Mu Qin saw his embarrassment as evidence that he was an ordinary young man after all.
• Tang Wu placed a spare rib in Su Can’s bowl and told the elders that his company was doing very well.
• Mu Qin asked Su Can whether his company had faced difficulties when it first started, prompting him to wonder if she intended to help.

Su Can explained Facebook Chinese’s challenges and plans to Tang Wu’s grandparents, who grew more receptive to him and discussed how to help him. As Su Can balanced company work with final exams, district officials singled out Facebook Chinese during their visit to the Meiluo Building, and Liu Changsheng wrote the company an encouraging inscription.

• Su Can discussed his company’s difficulties and plans with Tang Wu’s grandparents, and they offered advice while considering his situation.
• After Su Can left, Tang Wu hoped her grandparents would accept and support him, and Old Madam Mu said she would raise his case with Deputy Secretary Liu.
• Su Can juggled Facebook Chinese’s growing workload with studying for his final exams.
• Qiao Shuxin told Su Can that district officials and a television crew would visit Facebook Chinese at the Meiluo Building.
• Liu Changsheng visited the Meiluo Building and wrote Facebook Chinese the inscription “Great potential ahead!”

As finals ended, Su Can celebrated Facebook Chinese’s growing recognition at Nanjing University with a large dinner attended by friends and classmates. He then planned the company’s first university expansion, sending teams to recruit campuses in Beijing and Shanghai.

• Su Can’s reputation rose after publicity about Facebook Chinese and visits from city officials, and his roommates teased him when he complained that admirers still did not ask for autographs.
• Su Can treated a crowd of friends and classmates to dinner, where they discussed his company and he reassured them that Facebook Chinese was still in testing.
• Su Can reflected that Tang Wu’s family had helped secure a valuable period of calm for his business, giving the company time to develop.
• Su Can divided the university recruitment effort between a team led by Qiao Shuxin heading to Beijing and staff targeting campuses in Shanghai.
• Su Can committed Facebook Chinese to building its first foothold among university students before expanding to the wider public.

Su Can’s gathering at Nanjing University’s snack street turned tense when a group of older male students targeted the women with lewd jokes. After Cheng Congcong and Tong Tong returned from their table, Cheng retaliated against a man who insulted her, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Su Can treated his friends and classmates to dinner at the crowded snack street as they reflected on the school year and the approaching summer vacation.
• Tong Tong recognized several older students at a nearby stall, including Qian Feng, and the men began making crude remarks about the women.
• One senior approached Tong Tong and Cheng Congcong, then persuaded them to join his group despite Cheng’s misgivings.
• The men plied Tong Tong and Cheng Congcong with drinks, but the two returned to Su Can’s table without being overwhelmed.
• After hearing a man make a lewd remark, Cheng Congcong threw hot tea over him and shouted that her body did not give him permission to insult or assault her.

Cheng Congcong threw hot tea at Qian Feng after he made a lewd remark, and the confrontation escalated as campus figures abandoned her and one man slapped her. Su Can intervened, confronted Ren Weiming for disowning her, and kicked over Qian Feng’s table after offering to pay double for the damage.

• Cheng Congcong threw hot tea in Qian Feng’s face, and both groups prepared to fight as the crowd gathered.
• Ren Weiming denied that Cheng Congcong was his woman, and his companions ignored her when a man slapped her.
• Li Han and Wang Dongjian rushed in to retaliate, but Fan Qiyi stopped the brawl when Su Can’s group arrived.
• Su Can demanded that Ren Weiming admit he knew Cheng Congcong, then told him she no longer knew him and called him no man.
• Su Can told Li Han to promise the stall owner double compensation and kicked over Qian Feng’s table.

Su Can ended the campus confrontation by overturning Qian Feng’s table and leaving with Tang Wu, then met Zhao Hao in Shanghai before departing for summer vacation. At dinner, Su Can shared his predictions about digital music and urged Shangmai to adapt to technological change.

• Su Can kicked over Qian Feng’s table, scattering food and stunning Qian Feng and his companions.
• Fan Qiyi and other students intervened to calm the crowd, and Su Can left with Tang Wu, Li Han, Zhang Xiaoqiao, and their friends.
• Su Can traveled to Shanghai and met Zhao Hao, Shangmai’s vice president, and newly signed singer Nie Xiao for dinner.
• Zhao Hao discussed the recording industry with Su Can, who predicted that online digital music and portable audiovisual devices would eventually displace records.
• Su Can told Zhao Hao that Shangmai should embrace change and become a pioneer rather than resist new technology.