Recaps

Yan Heqing was invited to discuss his application with Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home, and Lu Lin arranged a visit there for the same afternoon. On his way to the welfare home, Yan Heqing bought snacks and yogurt that reminded him of Lin Fengzhi.

• Lin Fengzhi asked Lin Fengyi to take him to Xie Yunjie's wedding, hoping to see Lu Lin there, and Lin Fengyi agreed.
• Lu Lin learned that Xie Yunjie's wedding would be Saturday and ignored Chu Ziyu's question about his feelings for a young bartender.
• Lu Lin changed his schedule to visit Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home after reviewing Lu Group's charitable initiative.
• Yan Heqing received approval from Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home to come in for a detailed discussion and requested the afternoon off from the café.
• Yan Heqing bought snacks, fruit yogurt, and milk at a convenience store, remembering how much Lin Fengzhi had loved strawberry yogurt.

Yan Heqing visited Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home to begin volunteering long-term and saw how the children lived. After patiently sharing snacks and stories with children on the third floor, he was taken to the locked fourth floor, where a woman warned that Teacher Xu was teaching.

• Yan Heqing arrived at Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home with snacks and milk and met the staff member who had arranged his visit.
• Yan Heqing told the staff member he intended to volunteer long-term, and the man offered to show him around before he decided.
• The man explained that the children lived on different floors according to their conditions and described the challenges of caring for them.
• Yan Heqing handed out snacks and milk to the children on the third floor and told them stories, impressing the staff member with his patience.
• The man took Yan Heqing to the locked fourth floor, where a gray-haired woman came to unlock the gate and said Teacher Xu was teaching a class.

Yan Heqing toured Rainbow Bridge, met Xu Qiaoyin, and agreed to volunteer there once a week. After Lu Lin pledged major funding to the orphanage, Yan Heqing left in the storm, soaked and taking shelter outside a convenience store.

• Auntie Zhang showed Yan Heqing around the fourth floor, where he watched Xu Qiaoyin teach art to the children.
• Yan Heqing handed out food and gave an extra serving to a deaf girl so she could share with her best friend on the fifth floor.
• Yan Heqing agreed to volunteer once a week, and the man gave him a blue staff badge.
• Yan Heqing lent Xu Qiaoyin his umbrella as she prepared to leave in the rain, then ran off without it.
• Lu Lin pledged hundreds of millions to Rainbow Bridge for a library, an infirmary, and a new dormitory.
• Yan Heqing bought a jam bun and water and sheltered from the rain outside a convenience store.

Yan Heqing accepted Lu Lin’s ride home after they met at the Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home, and the two talked during the drive. When Yan Heqing invited Lu Lin inside to escape the rain, Lu Lin accepted and entered his apartment barefoot.

• Yan Heqing got into Lu Lin’s Maybach after the driver said President Lu wanted to see him.
• Lu Lin drove Yan Heqing home and learned that Yan Heqing had grown up at the Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home after his parents died.
• Yan Heqing told Lu Lin that his hair curled when wet, and Lu Lin gave him ginger tea.
• At Yan Heqing’s building, Yan Heqing invited Lu Lin upstairs for hot water, and Lu Lin agreed.
• Yan Heqing led Lu Lin into his apartment and turned on the radiant heater.

Yan Heqing prepared dinner while Lu Lin waited out the storm at his apartment, and they talked about Yan Heqing’s studies, reading, and eating habits. As Yan Heqing served hot pot, Lu Lin learned he had quit his bar job and was left to wonder whether his earlier advice had influenced him.

• Lu Lin waited in Yan Heqing’s apartment while Yan Heqing changed, cooked rice, and prepared food.
• Lu Lin noticed Yan Heqing’s Russian cytology book and learned he planned to transfer to biology next semester and enjoyed Agatha Christie’s mysteries.
• Lu Lin asked whether a piece of bread had been Yan Heqing’s whole dinner, and Yan Heqing explained he was trying to gain weight.
• Yan Heqing invited Lu Lin to stay for dinner because of the heavy rain, and Lu Lin agreed.
• Chu Ziyu called Lu Lin, recognized Yan Heqing’s voice, and asked whether Lu Lin had caused him to quit the bar; Lu Lin realized he had not known about the resignation.
• Yan Heqing served a hot-pot meal with rice, dipping sauce, and vegetables.

Yan Heqing shared a hot pot meal with Lu Lin, gave him homemade fishing bait, and learned he was thirty. After Lu Lin left, Yan Heqing went to the hotel where a future incident involving Lu Lin was set to happen and applied for a kitchen job.

• Yan Heqing served Lu Lin pork meatballs, and they discussed his work and plans to study abroad while washing the dishes together.
• Yan Heqing gave Lu Lin a jar of homemade fishing bait, and Lu Lin told him he was thirty before leaving.
• Yan Heqing searched for Pine Blossoms Brew Spring and planned to help Lu Muchi discover Lin Fengzhi's feelings for Lu Lin early.
• Yan Heqing went to Pine Blossoms Brew Spring the next morning and applied for a temporary kitchen job.
• Yang Zhen took Yan Heqing into the kitchen and asked him to carve a rose from a carrot.

Yan Heqing carved a rose during his interview with Yang Zhen, who offered him a paid shift at a wedding banquet. Later, he delivered coffee and cake to Lu Lin and stayed to eat lunch, leaving with fruit for himself and leftover pork for the stray cats near his home.

• Yang Zhen recognized Yan Heqing's years of kitchen work and invited him to help at a wedding banquet on Saturday.
• Yan Heqing returned to the café, where a customer requested that he deliver coffee and cake to the Lu Group.
• At Lu Lin's invitation, Yan Heqing ate lunch in the general manager's office and said he disliked the overly sweet shredded pork.
• Yan Heqing asked to take the leftover pork for stray cats, and Lu Lin told him to take the fruit for himself as well.

Yan Heqing shared Lu Lin’s fruit on Moments, then video-called Lin Fengzhi, who asked him for outfit advice and encouraged him to accept someone’s romantic feelings if he felt the same. The next evening, Yan Heqing bought a notebook and fountain pen and began fabricating Lin Fengzhi’s diary.

• Yan Heqing posted a photo of the fruit Lu Lin had given him and messaged Lin Fengzhi to say good night.
• Lin Fengzhi video-called Yan Heqing to show him a suit, and Yan Heqing suggested wearing something casual for the wedding.
• Lin Fengzhi noticed Yan Heqing’s expensive restaurant takeout and learned that a friend had given him the food and fruit.
• Yan Heqing asked Lin Fengzhi whether he should accept someone who liked him, and Lin Fengzhi advised him to follow his feelings.
• The next day, Yan Heqing bought a notebook and fountain pen, practiced writing Lin Fengzhi’s name, and began fabricating Lin Fengzhi’s diary.

Yan Heqing prepared a diary entry modeled on Lin Fengzhi’s and arranged to meet Lu Muchi, intending to use the diary as bait. At dinner, he confronted Lu Muchi about his obsession and lack of courage, then left Lu Muchi watching as other people admired him.

• Yan Heqing wrote a diary entry modeled on Lin Fengzhi’s and prepared bait for Lu Muchi.
• Yan Heqing changed his café shift so he could take Saturday off, then messaged Lu Muchi to meet and settle things.
• Lu Muchi arrived at the restaurant and admitted through his thoughts that Yan Heqing’s beauty and resistance made him want to possess him.
• Yan Heqing called Lu Muchi pathetic for seeking people who resembled the person he liked instead of confessing to him.
• Yan Heqing and Lu Muchi ate dinner, and Lu Muchi watched several people flirt with Yan Heqing while he waited to pay.

Yan Heqing rejected Lu Muchi’s proposal because he refused to be anyone’s stand-in, but Lu Muchi found Yan Heqing’s diary and followed him to a wedding venue, where Yan Heqing worked in the kitchen and banquet hall. Lin Fengzhi headed to Lu Lin’s hotel room, while Yan Heqing continued setting the tables for the wedding.

• Yan Heqing told Lu Muchi he refused to be a stand-in, and Lu Muchi said he no longer saw Yan Heqing that way.
• After dropping Yan Heqing off, Lu Muchi found his notebook and read an entry about Yan Heqing giving himself to someone the next day.
• Yan Heqing took a taxi to Pine Blossoms Brew Spring at four in the morning, and Lu Muchi followed him there.
• Lu Muchi recognized the venue as Xie Yunjie’s wedding banquet and watched Yan Heqing work through the kitchen’s surveillance feed.
• Lin Fengzhi learned Lu Lin’s room number and went up to room 2120, planning to surprise him.
• Yan Heqing helped set the banquet tables and folded a napkin into a swan.

At Mr. Xie's wedding, Yan Heqing worked as a server and tried to avoid Lu Lin, while Lu Lin noticed a fleeting glimpse of him. Lu Muchi searched for Yan Heqing through the hotel surveillance footage, and Yan Heqing ended the chapter on a short break with a server offering him durian pastries.

• Yan Heqing folded napkin swans and then joined the banquet staff as the wedding guests arrived.
• Lu Lin and Chu Ziyu discussed Lu Lin's closeness with Yan Heqing, and Lu Muchi joined their table while looking for him.
• Lin Fengzhi entered room 2120 with a master key card and prepared to bathe while imagining Lu Lin's scent.
• Yan Heqing served food while avoiding Lu Lin, but Lu Lin caught sight of a slender figure and wondered if it was him.
• Lu Muchi left the banquet and searched surveillance footage for Yan Heqing, who later took a break as a server offered him durian pastries.

Yan Heqing used Lu Muchi’s search for him to lure him into room 2120, where Lu Muchi found Lin Fengzhi naked in bed. Lu Lin saw them together and left, while Lu Muchi confronted Lin Fengzhi about liking his uncle.

• Yan Heqing accepted a durian pastry from a waitress, then went upstairs as the wedding banquet ended.
• Yan Heqing appeared on a surveillance camera and deliberately let Lu Muchi see him enter the twenty-first floor.
• Lu Muchi searched rooms 2116 and 2118 before entering room 2120, where Lin Fengzhi was waiting naked in bed.
• Yan Heqing watched from the stairwell as Lu Muchi entered 2120, then left by the stairs.
• Lu Muchi pulled back the duvet and found Lin Fengzhi; Lu Lin saw them together and left without a word.
• Lin Fengzhi tried to follow Lu Lin, but Lu Muchi stopped him and told him that the person he liked was his uncle.

Lu Muchi confronted Lin Fengzhi after learning he had pursued Lu Muchi to get close to his uncle, then abandoned him and drove to Yan Heqing’s apartment. Yan Heqing returned from feeding stray cats to find Lu Muchi waiting, and the chapter ended with Lu Muchi accusing him of deliberately leaving Lin Fengzhi’s diary in his car.

• Lu Muchi pinned Lin Fengzhi down and accused him of being unworthy, but stopped when Lin Fengzhi cried out in pain and left him sobbing.
• Lu Muchi noticed Lin Fengzhi’s diary in his car, connected it to Yan Heqing, and drove toward Yan Heqing’s apartment.
• Yan Heqing collected canned cat food from his apartment and fed the stray cats near the building.
• Yan Heqing saw Lu Muchi’s Mercedes blocking the road and calmly entered the building.
• Lu Muchi threw the diary at Yan Heqing, cutting his cheek, and accused him of leaving it in the car on purpose.

Yan Heqing used Lu Muchi’s misunderstanding about the diary to make him suspect that Yan was jealous and liked him, then destroyed the diary entry. After finishing his café job, Yan prepared a Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home staff ID and posted it for Lu Lin alone to see, testing whether Lu Lin would respond.

• Yan Heqing let Lu Muchi believe he had deliberately shown him Lin Fengzhi’s diary, prompting Lu Muchi to wonder whether Yan was jealous and liked him.
• Yan Heqing burned the diary entry and washed its ashes down the drain.
• Yan Heqing finished his last shift at the café, received a farewell treat from Zhang Qing and a bonus from the manager, and went home.
• Yan Heqing filled in a Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home staff ID using his own photo and name.
• Yan Heqing posted a photo of the ID to Moments for Lu Lin alone, hoping to gauge Lu Lin’s attitude toward him.

Yan Heqing volunteered at Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home while Lu Lin moved the Lu Group’s gift delivery there up to the same day after seeing Yan Heqing’s Moments post. The chapter ended with Lu Lin arriving and asking whether any volunteers were there, without yet finding Yan Heqing.

• After seeing Yan Heqing’s Moments post, Lu Lin moved the welfare home gift delivery to the next day, added a Cube of Light, and decided to go without media.
• Yan Heqing slept well, noted that his weight had risen to 117, and arrived at Rainbow Bridge Welfare Home early to help care for the children.
• Yan Heqing helped Auntie Zhang change the children and then handed out breakfast, drawing the children’s admiration.
• Lu Lin arrived at the welfare home with three gift trucks, looked around for Yan Heqing, and asked the director whether volunteers were there that day.

Lu Lin visited the orphanage, where he encountered Yan Heqing volunteering and confirmed Lu Group would donate supplies and buildings. The chapter ended with Lu Lin and Yan Heqing setting off to tour the orphanage after Lu Lin asked about Yan Heqing’s injured face.

• Lu Lin arrived at the orphanage cafeteria and saw Yan Heqing giving an apple to a child.
• Yan Heqing served Lu Lin and the director breakfast, while Xu Qiaoyin hid beneath a table after recognizing Lu Lin.
• Lu Lin told the director that the promised air conditioners would arrive shortly and said he would eat the same meal as everyone else.
• The director asked Yan Heqing to show Lu Lin around and emphasize the planned infirmary and library donations.
• Lu Lin asked about the bandage beneath Yan Heqing’s eye, and Yan Heqing said the minor scratch was nearly healed before they left to tour the orphanage.

Yan Heqing helped Lu Lin distribute gifts and new televisions at the orphanage, then helped Lu Lin demonstrate how a Cube of Light worked for the children. The girls eagerly awaited the rainbow Lu Lin promised to show them.

• Yan Heqing showed Lu Lin the children's dormitories and told him he had lived in a nearby abandoned building from the age of five.
• Lu Lin cleaned a boy's dirty hands before calling for the Lu Group employees to bring the gifts upstairs.
• Yan Heqing helped distribute the gifts and suggested handing them out separately so the children could enjoy several rounds of presents.
• Lu Group employees installed a new television in every classroom, and Auntie Zhang invited them to lunch.
• Yan Heqing delivered meals to the fifth-floor girls' dormitory, where a paralyzed girl asked what her present was.
• Lu Lin explained that the Cube of Light captured sunlight and said they could see a rainbow, then asked Yan Heqing to close the curtains.

Yan Heqing received a Cube of Light from Lu Lin and tested its colors at home, while Lin Fengzhi was devastated when Lu Lin failed to recognize him. Lin Fengzhi called Yan Heqing for comfort, and Yan Heqing asked what had happened.

• Lu Lin showed a little girl how the Cube of Light scattered colored rays, then left Yan Heqing with the memory of his reaction.
• Yan Heqing thanked Xu Qiaoyin for returning his umbrella and assured her he would keep her private matter confidential.
• Lu Lin's assistant gave Yan Heqing a larger Cube of Light, which Yan Heqing later held up to his bedside lamp and watched scatter brilliant colors.
• Lin Fengzhi visited the Lu family residence to explain himself to Lu Lin, but Lu Lin did not recognize him, and Lin Fengzhi fled in tears.
• Lin Fengzhi called Yan Heqing late at night, addressed him as big brother, and Yan Heqing gently asked why he was crying.

Lin Fengzhi sought comfort from Yan Heqing after Lu Lin failed to recognize him, and Yan Heqing helped him get home safely and reminded him about his exam. Meanwhile, Lu Lin rejected Lu Changcheng’s attempt to arrange a dinner with the Jiang family’s daughter.

• Lin Fengzhi asked Yan Heqing whether he could fall for a woman who loved him, and Yan Heqing said he would not be moved by someone willing to give up her life.
• Yan Heqing learned Lin Fengzhi was lost near an intersection, guided him into a taxi, and told him to go home and take his exam the next day.
• Lin Fengzhi messaged Yan Heqing that he had arrived home safely, then wished Lu Lin cared about him as much as Yan Heqing did.
• Lu Changcheng asked Lu Lin to keep the following evening free for dinner with Uncle Jiang, whose daughter would be there.
• Lu Lin refused the dinner invitation and said he planned to go fishing, prompting Lu Changcheng to ask whether his mother had to invite him before he would agree.

Yan Heqing finished his exams, confronted Zhao Huilin about her demand for support, and left her to seek legal advice. That night, he sent Lu Lin a thank-you gift: an animated ocean of glowing fish.

• Lu Lin refused Lu Changcheng's attempts to involve his mother and arrange a blind date, then prepared to go fishing.
• Yan Heqing finished both exams early and left through the main gate, where Zhao Huilin confronted him.
• Yan Heqing warned Zhao Huilin that abuse could void her right to demand support, then left after learning she had run short of money.
• Zhao Huilin hurried home to consult the lawyer in the alley.
• Lu Lin fished alone and received a message from Yan Heqing, who thanked him for the Cube of Light and sent him an animated aquatic gift.

Yan Heqing spoke with Lu Lin after giving him a gift, then finished his exams and learned Lu Lin would give a lecture at Beijing University. Meanwhile, Lin Fengzhi admitted to Lin Fengyi that his crush did not return his feelings and asked his brother for dating advice.

• Lu Lin called Yan Heqing, thanked him for the gift, and wished him luck on his exam.
• After finals, Fu Helang caught up with Yan Heqing and told him about an afternoon lecture by Beijing University's only straight-A student, Lu Lin.
• Yan Heqing recognized Lu Lin's name and asked whether the lecture would be in the main auditorium.
• Lin Fengyi realized Lin Fengzhi was heartbroken, and Lin Fengzhi confessed that the person he liked did not like him back.
• Lin Fengzhi asked Lin Fengyi to teach him how to make someone like him.

Lin Fengzhi took Lin Fengyi’s advice and hurried to Beijing University to pursue Lu Lin, while Lu Lin arrived to give a lecture. Yan Heqing and Fu Helang attended the packed auditorium as Lu Lin began his speech.

• Lin Fengyi promised to teach Lin Fengzhi how to pursue someone and advised him to keep appearing in front of Lu Lin.
• Lin Fengzhi learned that Lu Lin was lecturing at Beijing University and left to get a student ID from a friend.
• Lu Lin went to Beijing University after his assistant told him the lecture was full and discussed a scholarship decision with him.
• Yan Heqing entered the auditorium, and Fu Helang joined him and offered him juice, which he declined.
• Lu Lin began his lecture as Yan Heqing and Fu Helang listened from the audience.

Lu Lin gave a speech at Beijing University, then noticed Yan Heqing's photo on the campus wall and arranged a scholarship for the biology department. Lin Fengzhi sought his attention, while Fu Helang confessed interest in Yan Heqing and was rejected.

• Lin Fengzhi asked Lu Lin whether he was dating anyone, but Lu Lin declined to answer personal questions.
• Yan Heqing left the auditorium, and Fu Helang followed him outside.
• Lu Lin spotted Yan Heqing's photo on the university's top-student wall and assigned next year's scholarship to the biology department without naming a recipient.
• Lin Fengzhi asked Lu Lin for a ride home, and Lu Lin instructed his assistant to take him instead.
• Fu Helang asked Yan Heqing to add him on WeChat and admitted he wanted to know whether Yan Heqing liked men.
• Yan Heqing told Fu Helang he did not like him, and Fu Helang walked away in tears.

Yan Heqing led Lu Lin away from the university’s main gate to avoid his creditors and treated him to skewered food at a tiny shop. As rain poured around them, they shared music, and Yan Heqing explained the story behind “Wellerman.”

• Lu Lin approached Yan Heqing after overhearing him say he did not like Lu Lin, and they exchanged candid remarks about Lu Lin’s speech.
• Yan Heqing said his creditors were waiting at the university’s main gate, pulled Lu Lin toward another route, and took him to a food street.
• Yan Heqing bought them skewered food at a small shop as a heavy rainstorm drove everyone else indoors.
• Yan Heqing offered Lu Lin an earbud, and they listened to “Wellerman” while eating beneath the shop’s awning.
• Lu Lin noticed the fresh scars on Yan Heqing’s ear and asked about the song, so Yan Heqing described its story of sailors pursuing a wounded whale.

Lu Lin and Yan Heqing discussed a song about whalers and whales, and Lu Lin invited him to go whale-watching at sea next summer. Later, Lu Lin visited his ill mother, who hoped the whale in his story could escape, and he left without giving the story an ending.

• Yan Heqing said he hoped the whale in the song would win and refused to see whales in an aquarium because he did not want them confined.
• Lu Lin invited Yan Heqing to go sea fishing next summer and see whales and dolphins in the ocean.
• Lu Lin returned to his apartment, opened the WeChat mini program, then left for his mother's villa.
• Lu Zhichan praised Lu Lin for helping Xu Qiaoyin and encouraged him to help her further.
• Lu Lin told Lu Zhichan an unfinished story about a wounded whale, and she said she hoped it escaped back to the ocean.