Chapter Summaries

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.