Recaps

Song Yu and Xie Sui settled into their first day of classes, while Ma Xiaoding reluctantly became the math class representative. During English class introductions, a girl recognized Song Yu’s name as the one she associated with her husband, Brother Yu.

• Ma Xiaoding enthusiastically urged Song Yu to run for math class representative, but the teacher chose Ma Xiaoding for the role instead.
• Song Yu asked Xie Sui about a Venn diagram formula, and Xie Sui explained it after politely refusing a girl’s question about domains.
• Xie Sui turned down a strawberry cake sent by a girl, so Song Yu took it and used the chance to explain domains to him.
• Ou Yilian had the students introduce their deskmates, and Ma Xiaoding rambled about Xi Bowen before Xi Bowen identified Ma Xiaoding as the math class representative.
• Song Yu introduced himself to the class, prompting a girl to ask whether his name used the Yu in “my husband, Brother Yu.”

Song Yu and Xie Sui praised each other during a classroom introduction, delighting their classmates and intensifying rumors about them. Song Yu later updated his forum profile to reveal his identity and asked everyone to leave him alone so he could study, while Xie Sui went to deal with Zhu Zhixing.

• Song Yu praised Xie Sui as his excellent deskmate, and the girls in Class One erupted in cheers.
• Xie Sui called Song Yu kind, cute, and smart, then said they might spend a pleasant three years together.
• Song Yu happily teased Xie Sui after class, while Ma Xiaoding and Xi Bowen discussed the girls’ reactions and the forum rumors.
• Xie Sui declined Song Yu’s lunch invitation because he had matters to handle concerning Zhu Zhixing.
• Song Yu updated his forum profile to identify himself as “Your Husband Brother Yu” and asked users to uninstall the forum so he could study for a perfect score.

Song Yu studied English with Xie Sui, then slept through Chinese class while classmates speculated about their relationship. After receiving a threatening message targeting Xie Sui, Song Yu challenged the sender to come after him.

• Song Yu went to Xie Sui for help with English, and Xie Sui teased him when he struggled over the word “husband” before explaining the answer was “darling.”
• Song Yu grew sleepy during Chinese class, and Xie Sui told him to sleep until the teacher reached the important parts.
• Classmates debated Song Yu and Xie Sui’s relationship online while girls in Class One quietly watched them together.
• Xie Sui slept through the first physics lesson, and Song Yu worried that he would fall behind.
• Song Yu received a stranger’s threat to expose Xie Sui’s mother and destroy his life, then replied that the sender should bring it on.

During PE, Song Yu left his plans to study with Xie Sui behind when Ma Xiaoding asked him to help reclaim Class 1's basketball court from Year 2, Class 15. Song Yu tried to settle the dispute politely, but when Gao Feng declared himself the new school tyrant and challenged them, Song Yu threatened to beat him.

• Song Yu waited for Xie Sui after PE began, and the two headed downstairs together.
• Song Yu declined Ma Xiaoding's invitation to play basketball and suggested studying with Xie Sui instead.
• Xi Bowen told Ma Xiaoding that Year 2, Class 15 had taken their court, and Ma Xiaoding asked Song Yu to help uphold Class 1's dignity.
• Song Yu went with Ma Xiaoding and Xi Bowen to confront the other class, intending to resolve the court dispute through discussion.
• Gao Feng announced that he had replaced Chen Zhijie as the school's tyrant and challenged them to fight.
• After Gao Feng mocked his attempt to reason, Song Yu threatened to beat him until he answered when called son.

Song Yu and Xie Sui were sent to the office after a confrontation with Gao Feng, where Song Yu studied while Zhu Zhixing’s mother arrived seeking to transfer her son after a family scandal. As Song Yu and Xie Sui left, Zhu Zhixing accused Xie Sui of exposing his family, and Zhu Zhixing’s mother shoved Song Yu toward the stairs before Xie Sui caught him and confronted her.

• Song Yu stopped Gao Feng’s attempted fight by catching his wrist and pressing the basketball against his face, but the PE teacher arrived and sent Gao Feng to run laps and write a self-criticism.
• The PE teacher also ordered Song Yu and Xie Sui to report to the office and write self-criticisms, where Song Yu studied while Xie Sui helped him recall a line from Qinyuanchun: Changsha.
• Song Yu overheard Zhu Zhixing’s mother tell the homeroom teacher that she wanted to transfer her son because of a humiliating family scandal.
• Song Yu and Xie Sui encountered Zhu Zhixing in the stairwell, where Zhu accused Xie Sui of sending photos and surveillance footage to the police and insulted his mother.
• Song Yu punched Zhu Zhixing and defended Xie Sui, but Zhu Zhixing’s mother shoved Song Yu toward the stairs, and Xie Sui caught him while grabbing her hand and warning her.

After Zhu Zhixing’s family was publicly exposed and began collapsing, Xie Sui admitted to orchestrating the revelations and warned Zhu Zhixing that the punishment was only beginning. Song Yu encouraged Xie Sui to stand up for himself, then challenged Gao Feng to a fight and discovered their Friday showdown had become a forum sensation.

• Zhu Zhixing’s father attacked Zhu Zhixing’s mother in the stairwell, and school staff and police arrived to restrain him.
• Xie Sui admitted to Zhu Zhixing that he had exposed his father’s crimes and medical diagnosis, then warned that their family’s troubles were only beginning.
• Song Yu and Xie Sui went to eat, and Song Yu urged Xie Sui not to forgive people too easily or trust friendly strangers.
• Gao Feng challenged Song Yu to fight after school on Friday at the Book Mountain Building, and Song Yu accepted with a taunt.
• Song Yu checked the school forum and found students arguing over who would win the upcoming fight.

Song Yu defended Lin Shuangqiu when Ou Yilian cruelly resisted approving her leave to visit her sick grandmother, and he sent a recording of the exchange to the principal. As Song Yu prepared for his showdown with Gao Feng and invited Xie Sui to study over the weekend, Xie Sui received a threatening message and asked whether he would get a reward.

• Students on the school forum joked about Song Yu's coming fight with Gao Feng, while Song Yu arranged to visit Grandma Meng that weekend.
• Ou Yilian refused Lin Shuangqiu's leave request and made a cruel remark about waiting until her grandmother died before approving it.
• Song Yu played a recording of Ou Yilian's words, demanded that she sign Lin Shuangqiu's leave slip, and accompanied Lin to get it stamped.
• Ou Yilian tried to excuse herself and hinted that her connections would protect her, while Song Yu told her he would see what happened and sent the recording to the principal.
• Ma Xiaoding teased Song Yu about the upcoming fight with Gao Feng, and Song Yu asked Xie Sui to study with him at the library on Saturday.
• Xie Sui received a message with a secretly taken photo of his grandmother and an order to stay in the classroom Friday after school; after deleting it, he asked Song Yu what reward he would get for tutoring him.

Song Yu and Xie Sui joked about Song Yu’s plan to study hard, while Song Yu prepared for the monthly exam and his coming confrontation with Gao Feng. After receiving anonymous evidence about homeroom teacher Ou Yilian’s past, Song Yu realized her misconduct was worse than he had suspected.

• Xie Sui asked Song Yu what had been bothering him, and Song Yu wrote that he disliked their homeroom teacher and intended to study hard to prove her wrong.
• The Chinese teacher caught Song Yu passing the note, read part of it aloud, and Xie Sui claimed Song Yu meant to slap him.
• Song Yu forgot his Chinese homework, and Xie Sui showed him a one-line semester goal: helping Song Yu take first place in the city.
• Song Yu accepted that he would face Gao Feng at the Book Mountain Building, while Gao Feng bragged about the challenge and Bai Xuexin decided to get closer to Xie Sui.
• Song Yu received an anonymous email containing records of Ou Yilian’s past teaching and an account from a student she had driven into depression and suicide attempts.

Song Yu learned about a former student's abuse and Ou Yilian's role in it, then reported his homeroom teacher while deciding not to expose the victim publicly. As Song Yu prepared to face Gao Feng, Xie Sui received a message directing him to an old classroom building.

• Song Yu read the girl's diary, learned how Ou Yilian had dismissed her reports of harassment and exposed her to further humiliation, and chose to send the evidence to the principal and Meng Guang rather than publicize it.
• Song Yu wondered whether Xie Sui had suffered similar harassment, then chatted with him about childhood books and joked that he might lose his fight the next day.
• Ou Yilian mocked Song Yu for sleeping in class and made an insinuating remark about his illness, while Song Yu's classmates grew more comfortable joking and encouraging him.
• Song Yu and Gao Feng's rooftop confrontation drew a playful live commentary on the school forum, and Song Yu introduced himself as Your Husband Brother Yu.
• After Song Yu headed to the rooftop with Ma Xiaoding and his group, Xie Sui stayed behind and received a message directing him to a secluded old classroom building.

Xie Sui turned the tables on Wang Ci when he tried to blackmail and assault him, while Song Yu rushed to help after receiving photos that misrepresented the confrontation. They escaped the school dean together, and Xie Sui pretended his hand hurt so Song Yu would support him as they left.

• Xie Sui stabbed Wang Ci's hand, knocked him down, and took Jiang Xiu's phone, where he found messages and photos sent to Song Yu.
• Song Yu defeated Gao Feng on the Book Mountain Building rooftop by frightening him into calling Song Yu Dad, then fought off Gao Feng's lackeys when they tried to stop him leaving.
• After seeing the photos of Xie Sui and Wang Ci, Song Yu escaped the dean by jumping from a window and hurried to the abandoned classroom.
• Song Yu found Xie Sui unharmed and learned he had dealt with Wang Ci, but he noticed blood on Xie Sui's hand and insisted they leave for the infirmary.
• Xie Sui and Song Yu climbed out of the classroom window to evade the dean, and Xie Sui pretended to be injured so Song Yu would support him.

Song Yu and Xie Sui reconciled after Xie Sui admitted he was unused to receiving kindness, then went to the school office to confront Ou Yilian and Wang Ci’s mother. After Xie Sui revealed evidence of Wang Ci’s threats and attempted assault, Song Yu slapped Wang Ci’s mother, then called his aunt for help.

• At the infirmary, Song Yu learned Xie Sui had only a small bruise and arranged to take him home.
• Xie Sui teased Song Yu about a forum thread shipping them, and Song Yu stormed off after feeling his sincerity was doubted.
• Xie Sui apologized and explained that he was unused to kindness; Song Yu reassured him that he simply wanted to treat him well.
• Ou Yilian summoned Xie Sui to her office, where Wang Ci’s mother accused him and Song Yu of wrongdoing and threatened legal action.
• Xie Sui played a video of Wang Ci threatening him and attempting to sexually assault him, explaining that he had fought back in self-defense.
• When Wang Ci’s mother insulted Xie Sui, Song Yu slapped her and called his aunt, asking her to come to No. 1 High School.

Song Yu’s aunt Wen Yuan arrived at school and exposed Wang Ci’s mother’s history, while the dean confirmed that Wang Ci had lured and bullied Xie Sui. The chapter ended with Ou Yilian realizing Song Yu’s uncle was the mayor, as the adults faced consequences for their actions.

• Song Yu called his aunt Mrs. Meng, and Ou Yilian berated him while Wang Ci’s mother insulted him.
• Song Yu accused Ou Yilian of covering up Wang Ci’s bullying of Xie Sui and mentioned a student she had once driven toward suicide.
• Wang Ci’s mother threw scalding water at Song Yu, but an unidentified person caught the cup and threw it back; Wen Yuan then arrived and slapped Wang Ci’s mother.
• Wen Yuan exposed Wu Xinmei’s past and demanded an account of what had happened, while Ou Yilian tried to take back her accusations.
• The dean said Wang Ci had threatened and lured Xie Sui to an abandoned classroom, and Song Yu and Xie Sui showed Wen Yuan their evidence.
• Wen Yuan vowed to have Wang Ci sent to a detention center, then Meng Guang and the mayor arrived, leaving Ou Yilian horrified to learn that Song Yu’s uncle was the mayor.

Mayor Meng intervened after Ou Yilian mistreated Song Yu, suspending her classes and revealing that a past incident had been reported to the police. Song Yu explained his family background to Xie Sui, who promised not to distance himself, and invited him over to do homework.

• Mayor Meng criticized Ou Yilian's treatment of Song Yu, rejected her as the school's outstanding-teacher candidate, and ordered her classes suspended pending investigation.
• Ou Yilian pleaded with Mayor Meng and Song Yu, but Song Yu told her that her past actions had brought consequences.
• Song Yu pulled Xie Sui into the corridor and tried to explain his family background, then admitted he feared Xie Sui would distance himself because of their class differences.
• Xie Sui reassured Song Yu that no worldly label would change how he saw him and promised to help him have the peaceful school life he wanted.
• Wen Yuan invited Song Yu to bring Xie Sui over, and Song Yu texted Xie Sui, asking him to come do homework the next day.

Song Yu invited Xie Sui to tutor him, and the two planned to study together at the library. After Grandma Meng told Xie Sui about Song Yu’s mysterious recurring illness, Xie Sui grew concerned but kept his thoughts to himself.

• Xie Sui agreed to tutor Song Yu, and Song Yu’s family teased him about being excited to spend time with his handsome deskmate.
• Song Yu learned that Xie Sui had already finished his homework and planned to help him pursue his goal of taking first place in the city.
• Ma Xiaoding warned Song Yu that a video of his fight with Gao Feng had likely spread across the school forum, where students were celebrating his victory and discussing his online identity.
• Song Yu opened the forum thread titled “A future vast as the sea, finding peace with Sui and Yu,” read its matchmaking post, and decided to stop before reading further.
• Grandma Meng told Xie Sui that Song Yu suffered from unexplained episodes of severe weakness and delirium, prompting Xie Sui to remember Song Yu’s poor health.
• Song Yu and Xie Sui set out for the library to study, and Xie Sui teased Song Yu about having little room for his grades to fall.

Song Yu studied with Xie Sui at the school library, where a rainy-day nap left Song Yu troubled by a dream of Xie Sui’s painful past. When a forum post exposed their study date and cake-shop outing, Song Yu identified himself, leaving the students who had mocked the pair embarrassed.

• Song Yu set aside his anger when Xie Sui brought up studying, and the two went to the school library to work on Chinese and math.
• As rain fell, Xie Sui admitted he disliked rainy days, then reviewed Song Yu’s test papers and wrote notes about his weak math foundations.
• Song Yu fell asleep and dreamed of a banquet welcoming someone named Xie, followed by a bloody, distressed boy stumbling through the rain; Xie Sui woke him after half an hour.
• Song Yu and Xie Sui went to a cake shop, where Song Yu reflected on Xie Sui’s painful history and noticed a forum thread about their library study session.
• After someone photographed Song Yu at the shop, he replied to the thread with “Me,” and the students who had insulted the pair answered with “Embarrassing.”

Song Yu studied with Xie Sui and learned that he had misunderstood the assigned essay topic, while Xie Sui said Song Yu was his goal for the semester. The class welcomed a new English teacher and homeroom teacher, who announced that three absent students would not return.

• Song Yu told the school forum that Xie Sui was tutoring him, then joined Xie Sui for matcha cake and promised to memorize his notes.
• Xie Sui offered to make Song Yu a study plan and told him to pause his practice questions, leaving Song Yu confused.
• Ma Xiaoding explained that the essay assignment was about achieving semester goals, not simply using its title as a topic.
• Xie Sui said he had written about Song Yu as his goal, and Jiang Chunian decided to write a forum novel about the two of them.
• Teacher Cheng introduced himself as Class One's new English teacher and homeroom teacher, then said three absent students would not be coming back, prompting Ma Xiaoding to ask whether Wang Ci had dropped out.

Teacher Cheng encouraged Class One to aim for a top-three class average, while Song Yu's classmates mistakenly promoted him as a top student before the monthly exam. Xie Sui rejected Bai Xuexin's advances, and Song Yu challenged forum trolls to bet on his reaching the top hundred, leaving them panicking over his grades.

• Teacher Cheng promised Class One an outing for a top-three class average and offered Song Yu support, while classmates relied on Xie Sui to carry their results.
• Xi Bowen told the class Song Yu had been a top student in City A, and Xie Sui warned that differences between the textbooks might affect Song Yu's performance.
• Song Yu learned Ma Xiaoding had announced his supposed top-student status and asked Xie Sui whether he could raise his score by four hundred points in two weeks.
• Xie Sui told Teacher Cheng he liked sitting with Song Yu, then rejected Bai Xuexin and threw away her pen after she tried to get his contact information.
• Song Yu challenged forum users to a bet that he would make the yearly top hundred, and the trolls fell silent before panicking about the results.

As the monthly exams approached, Song Yu studied under Xie Sui’s guidance and brushed off Bai Xuexin when she questioned him about Xie Sui. After Song Yu fell asleep at Xie Sui’s apartment, Xie Sui revealed that he was the one pursuing Song Yu.

• Song Yu followed Xie Sui’s study plan, corrected his mistakes, and focused on improving before the monthly exams.
• Bai Xuexin approached Song Yu in the cafeteria and asked how he had become close to Xie Sui, revealing that she was related to him and wanted to know how he was doing.
• Song Yu warned Bai Xuexin that Xie Sui did not want to return to his family and asked her not to spread the information.
• Song Yu worked late at Xie Sui’s apartment, mentioned that Bai Xuexin seemed interested in pursuing Xie Sui, and fell asleep at his desk.
• Xie Sui told the sleeping Song Yu that he was the one pursuing him and admitted that he had accepted Song Yu’s kindness because he liked him.

Xie Sui carried the sleeping Song Yu to bed and watched over him, while Song Yu woke at Xie Sui’s home the next morning and learned he had spent the night there. As the monthly exams began, Song Yu entered his assigned exam room and woke to a delinquent bullying the boy seated in front of him.

• Xie Sui carried the exhausted Song Yu to bed, covered him with a quilt, and kissed his forehead before wishing him good night.
• Song Yu woke in Xie Sui’s bedroom, ate breakfast with him, and offered to let Xie Sui sleep in his bed to make up for taking his.
• Song Yu, Ma Xiaoding, and Xi Bowen joked in their group chat about his exam preparations and the classmates hoping he would make the top hundred.
• Song Yu saw that he had been assigned the last seat in the last exam room, while Xie Sui sat at the front of the first room.
• In the exam room, a delinquent dumped the bespectacled boy’s schoolbag onto the floor and threatened him, waking Song Yu with a bang.

Song Yu stopped a delinquent from bullying a classmate during the monthly exams and completed the tests with confidence that he had improved. After asking President Song for a watch to give to a friend, he found a school forum story shipping him with Xie Sui and accidentally revealed himself by commenting on it.

• Song Yu forced the delinquent to pick up the books he had scattered and quieted the classroom, then took the Chinese exam while the other students refrained from cheating.
• Song Yu worried that he had missed the Chinese multiple-choice answers, but Xie Sui revealed he had chosen them correctly and advised him not to compare answers after exams.
• Song Yu finished the monthly exams, felt confident about making the top hundred, and asked President Song for a watch to give to a friend.
• President Song explained that Song Yu's illness began after he nearly drowned on his third uncle's island, while Song Yu privately remembered that his condition was terminal in five years.
• Song Yu read a forum story about himself and Xie Sui, commented under his own account, and the other users recognized him.

After dreaming about Xie Sui’s future and meeting Song Wanying, Song Yu wondered what kind of girl Xie Sui liked and asked him about it at school. Their first monthly exam results were posted, and Song Yu discovered he had ranked eighty-first in the grade, directly beside Xie Sui, who ranked first.

• Song Yu reassured the forum that he had done well on the exam and dreamed of Song Wanying discussing Xie Sui’s future with him.
• Song Yu watched Xie Sui during morning study and asked what kind of girl he liked; Xie Sui said he liked someone kind, cute, and smart.
• Teacher Cheng announced that Class 1 had the highest average in the grade and that the exam rankings were posted.
• Song Yu went with Xie Sui to check the results and found Xie Sui ranked first with 748 points out of 750.
• Xie Sui pointed out that Song Yu ranked eighty-first, and Song Yu happily shared the news on the forum.

After the monthly exams, Song Yu celebrated his strong ranking and thanked Xie Sui for helping him prepare. On their walk home, Xie Sui told Song Yu he was not celibate and offered to come to him, leaving Song Yu flustered.

• Song Yu placed ninth in the class, while Xie Sui and Song Yu were praised for earning full marks in math and physics.
• Ma Xiaoding asked Song Yu and Xie Sui for study advice because he wanted to improve his grades for Jiang Chunian.
• Jiang Chunian joked with her deskmate about romantic rumors involving Song Yu and Xie Sui, then decided to stop provoking Song Yu.
• Song Yu agreed to attend the class karaoke outing and asked Xie Sui when his birthday was.
• Song Yu described Xie Sui as mysterious and repeated rumors that he had a cold, celibate air.
• Xie Sui told Song Yu he was not celibate and would come to him himself, making Song Yu blush and awkwardly retreat.

After Song Yu learned from Song Wanying that he had been healthy until a childhood accident, he questioned his memories and the purpose of his role in the novel. His conversation with Xie Sui stirred Xie Sui’s suspicions about his own missing childhood memories, and Song Yu ended the night bantering with classmates in their group chat.

• Song Yu shared his exam results with Song Wanying, then learned that he had nearly drowned at six and had not been born with an illness.
• Song Yu reflected that the novel’s plot had gone off course and angrily rejected the idea that Xie Sui should forgive the people who hurt him.
• Song Yu asked Xie Sui whether he remembered his childhood, prompting Xie Sui to suspect someone had tampered with his memories.
• Xie Sui teased Song Yu by calling him Yuyu, leaving Song Yu flustered and angry.
• Song Yu joined Class One’s Happy Family group chat and joked that his classmates were lucky to be in the same group as him.

Song Yu and Xie Sui joined their classmates for a karaoke gathering, where Song Yu praised Xie Sui and helped Ma Xiaoding during a mobile game. After the class took a group photo, Jiang Chunian proposed playing truth or dare, and everyone began drawing cards.

• Song Yu and Xie Sui arrived early at Encounter, where Song Yu explained he had come to room 305 after hearing Xie Sui needed help and told him he thought he was handsome.
• Ma Xiaoding and Xi Bowen sneaked snacks and beer into the room, and Song Yu took over Ma Xiaoding's game after his repeated deaths.
• The girls arrived, Teacher Cheng gathered the class in room 305, and the class monitor took a group photo.
• Jiang Chunian invited Song Yu and Xie Sui to sing, then suggested truth or dare when they refused.
• Jiang Chunian explained the card rules, placed fifteen cards on the table, and everyone drew one.

Song Yu and Xie Sui played truth or dare with their classmates, and the game stirred up questions about their feelings. Xie Sui admitted he liked someone, while Liang Yingying ended the chapter by asking him to read from a novel whose main character shared his name.

• Jiang Chunian added card-based dares to the game, and Ma Xiaoding drew the little joker before dodging a question about whom he would choose as a girlfriend.
• Ma Xiaoding described his ideal girl as quiet and bookish, then admitted he liked Jiang Chunian partly because she was the Chinese class representative.
• Song Yu drew the joker and chose truth when Xie Sui asked if he had slept well; later, Song Yu admitted he kept dreaming about someone but refused to say who.
• Xie Sui drew the joker and told Xi Bowen he liked someone, leaving Song Yu and the others curious about the identity.
• Liang Yingying asked Xie Sui who he liked, but he chose a dare, so she asked him to read a passage from a novel whose main character had the same name as him.