Recaps

After Su Can’s stabbing brings city leaders into his family’s orbit, he navigates school rivalries, helps protect the family shop, and expands its business. The new branch succeeds, while Su Licheng faces political pressure over the Xinghai Square project.

• Su Can recovered from his stabbing as city officials visited him, and his account of stopping Chen Chong became a public example of courage.
• Su Can returned to school, joined Chen Lingshan and Tang Wu at karaoke, and helped Feng Youfu confront Que Junhao after Que mistreated Wang Lu.
• Su Can stood with Su Licheng against municipal enforcers until detectives intervened, then helped secure business for the family shop through Zeng Qu anming.
• Su Can met Lin Luoran on the bus and later walked with her, while he continued to rank well at school and outmaneuvered Zhao Lu at a department store.
• Su Can persuaded his parents to open a stationery branch near City No. 3 Middle School, and the shop earned a surge of sales when students returned.
• Su Can reunited with Tang Wu at a teahouse where she played piano, and she told him she earned money performing there.
• Su Can returned to school and saw Lin Luoran, Lin Zouwen, and Wang Weiwei, while Su Licheng explained that Li Yuhe’s faction was pressuring Zhong Jianjun over the Xinghai Square profits.

Su Can helped bring Wang Weiwei home, supported his father through Engineering Division Four’s crisis, and watched his family’s stationery business expand. His bond with Tang Wu became public, while political maneuvering and the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia left him considering whether he could change the coming tragedy.

• Wang Weiwei resisted moving in with Wang Bu, but after Su Can beat a skilled StarCraft player and invoked Wang Weiwei’s promise, he went home with Su Can and his friends.
• Su Can recognized Wang Bu’s anxiety about his son and later told Zhong Jianjun that Wang Bu was willing to meet, leading Wang Bu to intervene in the withheld project payments and secure funds for Engineering Division Four.
• Mao Nan and Li Yuhe’s efforts to undermine Engineering Division Four failed as workers received overdue wages, and Su Can’s family’s stationery business grew under Wang Ming and Zeng He.
• Su Can rejected Chen Lingshan after she struggled to apologize, then defended her from Zhao Chunyang’s harassment with help from Wang Weiwei, Lin Zouwen, and Lin Luoran.
• Su Can confronted the people exploiting Cheng Lan at Dingsheng Karaoke City, and Zhao Lijun’s officers raided the venue as part of Wang Bu’s political counterattack against Jin Donghai.
• Su Can persuaded his family to consider expanding their retail business, and they opened a third store near City First Middle School.
• Su Can kissed Tang Wu during a school ceremony, then spent more time with her, repaired her fountain pen, and walked into school with her.
• After news of the Chinese embassy bombing in Yugoslavia, Su Can recalled the May 8, 1999 attack and considered using the media to warn people and change what happened.

Su Can’s article warned of the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia, and Lin Guozhou’s intervention helped the staff evacuate safely. As pressure mounted on Wang Bu and Su Can’s relationships shifted, Su Can and Zeng Yuan uncovered Liu Cheng’s hidden cash.

• Su Can researched and published his prediction that NATO might bomb the Chinese embassy, prompting public debate and ridicule from some classmates.
• Su Can and Tang Wu grew closer, but Tang Wu’s mother took her away, and Tang Wu left Xiahai after a tearful goodbye to Su Can at Chen Lingshan’s birthday party.
• Lin Guozhou and Wang Bu confirmed Su Can had written the article, and Su Can urged them to act before the predicted tragedy.
• Wang Haoran told Wang Weiwei that Wang Bu was under investigation, and Su Can suspected Liu Cheng was behind the pressure on him.
• Lin Guozhou went to Yugoslavia to warn authorities, and embassy staff moved to safer locations before the May 7 bombing.
• The embassy staff survived the attack, Lin Guozhou received acclaim for his warning, and Su Can saw that his actions had changed people’s fates.
• Su Can invited Xue Yiyang to join him in business, then took Zeng Yuan hiking to a secluded villa and persuaded him to retrieve three bundles from a muddy pond.
• Su Can opened the bundles at home and found 1.5 million yuan, which he recognized as part of Liu Cheng’s hidden fortune.

Su Can built Shushan Chain into a shopping-center venture while preparing to leave Xiahai, and he helped expose Liu Cheng’s scheme against Wang Bu. The arc ended with Wang Bu cleared and Su Can preparing to move to Xiangcheng and begin at a more demanding school.

• Su Can challenged Jiang Zezhong’s punishment of Class Five, brought drinks for three classes, and earned Vice Principal Yu’s support.
• Su Can helped Wang Yue reject her family’s marriage plans, funded five stationery shops, and named the chain Shushan.
• Shushan’s stores prospered, and Su Can planned Dunhuang Mall at Xinghai Square with Wang Yue while his family prepared to move to Rongcheng.
• Su Can gave a speech that won over the school and provincial secretary Chu Zimiao, then reconnected with Chen Lingshan at Zeng Na’s banquet.
• Su Can watched Liu Cheng and Jin Donghai discuss their schemes and photographed Liu Cheng hiding evidence in his villa pond.
• After Wang Bu came under investigation, Su Can gave Zhao Lijun photographs of Liu Cheng’s hidden money and helped bring the evidence to Wang Bu’s family.
• Investigators recovered Liu Cheng’s money, arrested Liu Cheng, Jiang Cai, and Jin Donghai, and cleared Wang Bu after the fabricated allegations were exposed.
• Su Can left Xiahai for Xiangcheng, while Zeng Qu anming urged him to face stronger competition and Su Can resolved to build his resources alongside school.