Recaps

Song Yunshen discovered that a mysterious diary recorded the future, and its entries helped him predict the school cafeteria menu. A new entry dated 2036 revealed that Song Yunshen and the diary’s unknown owner had divorced, leaving him wondering who wrote it and what had happened.

• Song Yunshen heard a strange voice tell him the answer to an English question, then suspected he could hear Xia Yunuo’s thoughts at lunch.
• Song Yunshen won his bet with Xu Zhuoyue when the cafeteria served crispy chicken cutlet, and he heard Xia Yunuo think that she would choose vegetables to save money for her younger sisters.
• Song Yunshen read a future-dated diary entry and confirmed that its predictions had been coming true, though the handwriting belonged to someone else.
• Song Yunshen found a new diary entry dated October 27, 2036, saying that he and the diary’s owner had divorced after some albums and photos were discovered.

Song Yunshen interpreted a future diary entry about his divorce and tried to identify its writer, while also investigating a mysterious voice in his head. After his father told him about a two-month trip and handed him responsibility for collecting rent, an unnamed girl discovered writing that had mysteriously appeared in her diary.

• Song Yunshen read a diary entry dated 2036 about his divorce, intimate photos, and a possible choice between two women, and wondered who had written it.
• Song Yunshen listed Xia Yunuo as a suspect because she was a pretty student at Ningjiang Middle School and her voice might match the one he had heard in his head.
• Song Yunshen planned to prepare for his final exams and earn enough spending money to replace his computer.
• Song Mingyuan told Song Yunshen he would travel alone for two months and that the tenant Yan Zhenxia would pay rent directly to him.
• Song Yunshen wrote an entry in his ordinary diary about the day and his worries about his father.
• Late at night, an unnamed girl found mysterious writing in the cheap diary she had bought and asked her mother if she had used it.

Xia Yunuo and Song Yunshen continued to hear each other’s thoughts, though neither understood the connection between them. After Song Yunshen’s thoughts about Xia Yunuo and Teacher Jiang reached her, she called him a pervert in her mind, and he wondered whether she had caught him staring.

• Xia Yunuo heard Song Yunshen think about getting a closer look at her handwriting and reflected on how their mind-reading worked best when they were near each other.
• Song Yunshen heard Xia Yunuo think that he was good-looking, then asked Xu Zhuoyue whether he was handsome.
• Teacher Jiang caught Song Yunshen and Xu Zhuoyue talking during morning self-study and sent them into the hallway to stand outside the classroom.
• Song Yunshen thought about whether Xia Yunuo’s legs were as pale as Teacher Jiang’s, and Xia Yunuo silently called him a pervert.
• Song Yunshen heard Xia Yunuo’s insult and wondered whether she had noticed him looking at Teacher Jiang’s legs.

Song Yunshen borrowed Xia Yunuo’s English homework to compare her handwriting with the Future Diary’s, hoping to identify its writer. He decided Xia Yunuo was probably not the diary’s owner, while she blushed after hearing his thoughts about wanting her to be his future girlfriend.

• Jiang Wenpei lectured Song Yunshen and Xu Zhuoyue, then sent them back to class.
• Song Yunshen borrowed Xia Yunuo’s English homework, drawing teasing remarks from Bai Feini and Xu Zhuoyue.
• Song Yunshen compared Xia Yunuo’s handwriting with the Future Diary’s and concluded they were probably not written by the same person.
• Song Yunshen checked Xu Zhuoyue’s and Kang Ping’s handwriting too, ruling them out as the diary’s owner.
• Song Yunshen thought he wished Xia Yunuo were his future girlfriend, and Xia Yunuo heard the thought and blushed.

Song Yunshen arranged to visit his tenant Yan Zhenxia to inspect a faulty water heater after school. Before leaving the English Club, he took a letter from the mailbox after seeing a pretty girl leave one there, then froze as he opened it.

• Song Yunshen lost his lunch bet to Xu Zhuoyue, who won Orleans chicken drumsticks and took Song Yunshen's meal card.
• Song Yunshen declined Xu Zhuoyue's invitation to play basketball because he had family business to handle.
• Song Yunshen agreed with Yan Zhenxia over WeChat to inspect her water heater that afternoon.
• Song Yunshen signed in at the English Club and watched a pretty girl put a letter into the club mailbox.
• Song Yunshen took the top letter from the mailbox and stopped dead as he opened it outside the club.

Song Yunshen tried to identify the girl who wrote the letter he took from the English Club, but neither the envelope nor Jiang Wenpei revealed her name. He then went to Yan Zhenxia’s apartment to check the water heater and was greeted by a cute young girl.

• Song Yunshen photographed the English Club sign-in sheet and narrowed his possible suspects to 33 girls who had signed in.
• Jiang Wenpei explained that she replied to letters left in the English mailbox but could not identify the letter’s writer.
• Song Yunshen learned he could leave his reply with the original letter in the club activity room and then left for Yan Zhenxia’s home.
• Song Yunshen arrived at Yan Zhenxia’s apartment to inspect the water heater, and her daughter answered the door.

Song Yunshen visited Yan Zhenxia’s apartment, fixed the clogged water-heater filter, and agreed to let her pay the rent late after she explained her financial difficulty. Back home, he put the tenant matter aside and turned his attention to the letter in his schoolbag.

• Song Yunshen entered Yan Zhenxia’s apartment and noticed that its living room had been turned into a bedroom.
• Song Yunshen inspected the water heater and cleared sand and sediment from its inlet filter, restoring the water flow.
• Ningning poured Song Yunshen a glass of water and scrubbed the cartoon cup after he drank from it.
• Yan Zhenxia asked Song Yunshen to delay the rent payment because she had injured her leg at work, and he agreed to accept it on the eleventh of next month.
• Song Yunshen returned home and took a letter from his schoolbag to consider how to reply.

Song Yunshen matched a letter about secretly seeking summer work to an entry in the Future Diary and tried to plan a reply that would draw its writer to him. He persuaded Song Mingyuan to fund tutoring by a student who ranked in the school’s English top fifty, then saw a future entry in which the diary’s owner gave her first paycheck to her mother and wished she could grow up faster.

• Song Yunshen translated a letter from a girl who wanted to work over summer vacation despite her mother’s objections, and found a matching entry in the Future Diary.
• Song Yunshen considered identifying the diary’s owner from the English Club sign-in sheet, but decided first to write a reply that might make her approach him.
• Song Mingyuan warned Song Yunshen to be discerning with tenants after discussing his decision to postpone Auntie Yan’s rent.
• Song Yunshen asked Song Mingyuan to pay for a student to tutor him in English, and Song Mingyuan agreed on the condition that the student ranked in the school’s top fifty for the subject.
• Song Yunshen read a future diary entry in which the girl secretly worked at a milk tea shop, gave her first 3,000-yuan paycheck to her mother, and wished she could grow up faster.

Song Yunshen replied to the girl who wanted to help support her family, suggesting tutoring, while Xia Jinshu found new diary entries that appeared to connect Song Yunshen with Xia Yunuo and the English Club letter. The chapter ended with Xia Jinshu stunned by what she had read, while Xia Yunuo continued keeping her strange ability a secret.

• Song Yunshen wrote a thoughtful reply suggesting the girl consider tutoring, then copied it in English and put it away with her letter.
• Song Yunshen checked the Waterside Homes tenant’s rent details, then wrote in his diary about Xia Yunuo, the English Club letter, and hoping for a reply.
• Xia Jinshu asked Xia Yunuo whether she liked someone after recalling a diary entry, and Xia Yunuo denied it while admitting she had asked a boy for help with math.
• Xia Yunuo decided not to tell her family that she could hear a male classmate’s inner thoughts, and she and Xia Jinshu went home with secrets between them.
• Xia Jinshu reread her diary and realized its new entry might refer to the letter she had placed in the English Club mailbox and Xia Yunuo calling a boy handsome.

Song Yunshen gave Xia Kening a couple’s mug set and added her on WeChat before asking Zhong Long to identify the prettiest girls among his suspects. Zhong Long pointed to Xia Jinshu as the prettiest, leaving Song Yunshen with a lead on his search for his future girlfriend.

• Song Yunshen met Xia Kening at a convenience store and bought her a pair of couple’s mugs as a gift.
• Xia Kening insisted on paying for one mug, and she and Song Yunshen exchanged WeChat details before leaving together.
• Song Yunshen placed his written reply in the English Club activity room, then asked Zhong Long to rank the girls on his suspect list.
• Zhong Long pointed to Xia Jinshu, from second-year Class Four, as the prettiest girl on the list.

Song Yunshen asked Zhong Long about Xia Jinshu and went looking for her to confirm whether she was the girl he had seen at the English Club. He failed to find her that evening and returned to tutoring Xia Yunuo, whose thoughts he could hear.

• Zhong Long told Song Yunshen that Xia Jinshu was a high-achieving, studious second-year class president who had turned down many confessions, then shared notes about her for two meals.
• Song Yunshen asked Zhong Long for Xia Yunuo’s information too and learned that Zhong Long sold various services and information to students.
• Song Yunshen went to second-year class four to look for Xia Jinshu, but she was absent from the classroom both before evening study and during the first break.
• During the second evening-study break, Xia Yunuo brought Song Yunshen a math problem, and he carefully explained how to solve it.
• Song Yunshen heard Xia Yunuo thinking that he was handsome and tried to keep his amusement hidden while continuing the lesson.

Xia Jinshu replied to Song Yunshen through the English Club bookcase, explaining her difficulty finding tutoring work, while Song Yunshen collected her letter and wrote back. The Future Diary then revealed that Xia Yunuo expected her first date with Song Yunshen the next day and felt guilty about it.

• Xia Jinshu wrote Song Yunshen a reply and left it on the English Club bookcase to avoid alarming Xia Yunuo.
• Song Yunshen found Xia Jinshu’s letter at the English Club and took it home.
• Song Yunshen read Xia Jinshu’s reply, learned she was still struggling to find tutoring work, and wrote her another letter.
• Song Yunshen checked the Future Diary and read Xia Yunuo’s entry about her planned first date with him and her guilt toward her older sister.

Song Yunshen learned that his romance with Xia Jinshu would not begin for years, while Xia Jinshu considered tutoring him for pay after reading his diary. She then discovered a couples’ cup in the apartment and suspected her younger sister Ningning was secretly dating someone.

• Song Yunshen read that he would not begin dating Xia Jinshu until 2032 and would divorce in 2036, then wrote in his own diary.
• Xia Jinshu declined Zhuang Lujun’s invitation to a summer beach trip and went home focused on easing her mother’s financial burden.
• Xia Jinshu read Song Yunshen’s diary entry about possibly hiring her as a tutor and considered accepting the work to earn money.
• Xia Jinshu decided to wait for Song Yunshen’s reply before approaching him and locked the diary away.
• Xia Jinshu found packaging for a buy-one-get-one-free couples’ cup and suspected Ningning had secretly started dating someone.

Xia Jinshu questioned Xia Yunuo about Song Yunshen, then asked Yan Zhenxia for permission to tutor a student over the summer instead of working at a milk tea shop or attending classes. Yan Zhenxia reserved judgment, while someone in the bedroom secretly overheard the discussion and focused on the tutoring pay.

• Xia Jinshu asked Xia Yunuo about the boy she tutored in math, and Xia Yunuo described him as earnest, thorough, sometimes playful, and a little narcissistic.
• After waking to use the bathroom, Xia Jinshu met Yan Zhenxia returning home after three in the morning and urged her to rest.
• Xia Jinshu raised her plan to work over the summer, but Yan Zhenxia urged her and Xia Yunuo to attend summer classes instead.
• Xia Jinshu proposed tutoring an English student for a hundred yuan an hour and explained that teaching would reinforce her own learning.
• Yan Zhenxia said she would consider the arrangement after learning more, and an unseen listener returned to bed after overhearing the conversation.

Song Yunshen learned more about Xia Kening from his aunt and considered Xia Yunuo as a possible tutor, while Xia Yunuo worried that he had fallen for her. At the school assembly, he heard Xia Yunuo think that Xia Jinshu was her older sister.

• Song Yunshen ate breakfast with Zhao Zeheng and Ruan Zheng, who confirmed that Xia Kening was in Ruan Zheng's class and described her as competitive.
• Song Yunshen left a reply in the English Club activity room, then watched Xia Yunuo and heard her think about finding a tutoring job.
• Song Yunshen considered hiring Xia Jinshu as a tutor because she had ranked first in the year, while Xia Yunuo worried that he might misunderstand her interest in asking him math questions.
• At the flag-raising ceremony, Song Yunshen heard Xia Yunuo think that Xia Jinshu was her sister and was astonished.

Song Yunshen realized Xia Jinshu was Xia Yunuo’s older sister and continued corresponding with Xia Jinshu about tutoring. He invited Xia Yunuo to lunch, and she accepted after hearing his thoughts and deciding she wanted a meat dish.

• Song Yunshen recognized Xia Jinshu as the older sister Xia Yunuo had mentioned and wondered whether he might become her brother-in-law.
• After the flag-raising ceremony, Xia Jinshu collected Song Yunshen’s reply and wrote back during English class.
• Song Yunshen waited until Xia Yunuo left for lunch, then offered to buy her a meal to thank her for lending him her English homework.
• Xia Yunuo heard Song Yunshen’s thoughts, noticed him looking at her chest, and questioned whether his offer was really just gratitude.
• At the cafeteria entrance, Xia Yunuo saw the minced-pork steamed egg dish and softly agreed to let Song Yunshen buy her lunch.

Song Yunshen treated Xia Yunuo to lunch, indulged her craving for braised lion's head meatballs, and asked about her summer plans. Their conversation revealed that Xia Yunuo was considering tutoring for pocket money, while Song Yunshen had already chosen someone to tutor him.

• Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo queued for lunch, and Song Yunshen chatted with a boy while Xia Yunuo memorized vocabulary.
• Song Yunshen noticed Xia Yunuo eyeing the braised lion's head meatballs and ordered her a serving, teasing her in his thoughts as a little glutton.
• Xu Zhuoyue confronted Song Yunshen for leaving him to run to the cafeteria alone, then left after jokingly threatening to settle things later.
• Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo ate together, and he asked whether she had summer plans.
• Xia Yunuo said she might take math and physics tutoring and consider tutoring younger students for pocket money; Song Yunshen suggested she tutor him but thought he had already picked someone.

Song Yunshen offered to pay for Xia Yunuo's lunches in exchange for borrowing her English homework, but she refused, and he suggested she ask Teacher Song about tutoring work. After school, Song Yunshen picked up a reply from Xia Jinshu at the English Club, while Xu Zhuoyue remained suspicious about the pen pal.

• Song Yunshen offered to cover Xia Yunuo's lunch in exchange for copying her English homework, but Xia Yunuo refused his offer.
• Song Yunshen suggested Xia Yunuo ask Teacher Song to recommend a part-time tutoring job, and she agreed to ask him when she had time.
• Xu Zhuoyue confronted Song Yunshen for skipping lunch and basketball with him, then teased him about treating Xia Yunuo to a meal.
• Kang Ping rejected Song Yunshen's offer to buy her dinner, and Song Yunshen lamented that money was not everything.
• After school, Song Yunshen picked up Xia Jinshu's reply from the English Club, but Xu Zhuoyue did not believe his explanation about the pen pal.

Song Yunshen read Xia Jinshu’s acceptance of his tutoring offer and discovered from the Future Diary how carefully she planned to use her wages to help her family. After reading his own diary entry, Xia Jinshu resolved to take the tutoring seriously rather than simply slack off.

• Song Yunshen read Xia Jinshu’s reply, which accepted the tutoring opportunity and asked to learn more about the details.
• Song Yunshen was pleased that Xia Jinshu had signed her name, then wrote back and checked the Future Diary.
• Song Yunshen read Xia Jinshu’s plans to spend her milk tea shop wages on rent, clothes, a family meal, and a handbag for her mother.
• Song Yunshen wrote in his diary that he planned to ask Xia Jinshu to tutor him for one hundred yuan an hour so he could slack off during lessons.
• Xia Jinshu secretly read Song Yunshen’s diary entry and decided she would teach him seriously rather than merely go through the motions.

Xia Jinshu waited for Song Yunshen’s reply and hoped to become his tutor so she could earn money for her family. After exchanging letters during the exam-preparation day, they agreed to meet for lunch on Saturday to discuss tutoring.

• Xia Jinshu imagined tutoring Song Yunshen through the summer and raising his English score, while planning how the income could help her family.
• Xia Jinshu questioned Xia Yunuo about her relationship with Song Yunshen and offered her a date fund, but Xia Yunuo denied that anything was happening between them.
• On Tuesday’s self-study day, Song Yunshen and Xu Zhuoyue played five-in-a-row, while Song Yunshen and Xia Jinshu exchanged replies more often.
• After discussing the tutoring arrangement in their letters, Xia Jinshu and Song Yunshen agreed to meet for lunch on Saturday after the final exams.

Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo spent the first day of final exams hearing each other’s thoughts, while Song Yunshen kept up his usual laziness and checked the Future Diary without finding an update. On Thursday morning, he woke beneath an unfamiliar ceiling with a heavy weight on his chest.

• Song Yunshen arrived just before the Chinese exam and reviewed with Class Five while Teacher Zhang kept the students in line.
• Xia Yunuo tried to study but heard Song Yunshen thinking about Gomoku, and she wondered whether their strange mind-link would ever end.
• Song Yunshen heard Xia Yunuo’s thoughts and mistakenly wondered if she had a secret crush on him.
• After the day’s exams, Song Yunshen played Gomoku with Xu Zhuoyue, checked the unchanged Future Diary at home, and went to sleep after drinking warm milk.
• Song Yunshen woke on Thursday morning beneath an unfamiliar ceiling and wondered why something heavy was pressing on his chest.

Xia Kening woke up in Song Yunshen’s body and realized that Song Yunshen had switched into hers. They contacted each other by WeChat video call, agreed to stay honest as they dealt with the unexplained swap, and Song Yunshen asked Xia Kening how to put on a bra.

• Xia Kening woke in an unfamiliar room and discovered she had become a man.
• Xia Kening used a phone camera to recognize that she was in Song Yunshen’s body and worried about what he might do in hers.
• Xia Kening received a WeChat video call from Song Yunshen, who was in her body, and they confirmed they had swapped bodies.
• Song Yunshen apologized for accidentally touching Xia Kening’s breasts when he woke up and promised to be honest with her.
• Song Yunshen asked Xia Kening how to put on a bra.

After Song Yunshen and Xia Kening swapped bodies, they coached each other on handling unfamiliar bodily routines and impersonating one another at school. Xia Kening headed to Ningjiang Middle School in Song Yunshen’s body, while Song Yunshen worried she might get into a fight with his friend.

• Song Yunshen urged Xia Kening to explain how to put on a bra, and she later asked him how to use his body to go to the bathroom.
• Xia Kening changed into Song Yunshen’s school uniform, and Song Yunshen warned her to act normally around his close deskmate and told her to call him a dumbass if she did not know what to say.
• Xia Kening left Building 24 and followed the road toward Ningjiang Middle School while Song Yunshen questioned her about her friends and classmates.
• Xia Kening admitted that she had punched Xu Lingcheng after he harassed Kong Xi, and Song Yunshen warned her not to use violence against his foul-mouthed friend.

Song Yunshen tried to prepare Xia Kening for the science exams while pretending to be her, then went with her roommates to breakfast. At the cafeteria, Xu Lingcheng confessed that he liked Xia Kening, leaving Song Yunshen horrified.

• Song Yunshen and Xia Kening realized they both had exams and agreed she would do her best while imitating his handwriting.
• Xia Kening entered Ningjiang Middle School and realized her second sister was in Song Yunshen's class.
• Song Yunshen returned to Xia Kening's dorm, met her waiting roommates, and got dressed while keeping his eyes closed.
• Xiao Mengdie poked Song Yunshen's bra, then he left for breakfast with Kong Xi, Xiao Mengdie, and Yang Wan.
• Xu Lingcheng confronted Song Yunshen at the cafeteria and confessed that he liked Xia Kening.

Xia Kening attended morning study in Song Yunshen’s body at Ningjiang Middle School and tried to imitate his behavior while observing her sister, Xia Yunuo. She avoided raising suspicion by repeatedly calling Xu Zhuoyue “Dumbass,” while Song Yunshen finished his math exam at Shulan Middle School and worried about how she was managing.

• Xia Kening followed the first-year students to Class Five and watched Xia Yunuo, who briefly looked at her before returning to her book.
• Xu Zhuoyue told Xia Kening that the class knew Song Yunshen was pursuing Xia Yunuo after he had treated her to a meal.
• Xia Kening called Xu Zhuoyue “Dumbass,” and he accepted the insult as their usual banter.
• During morning study, Xu Zhuoyue tried to start a game, but Xia Kening kept calling him “Dumbass” and studied Song Yunshen’s handwriting instead.
• At Shulan Middle School, Song Yunshen finished his math exam and worried that Xia Kening might reveal herself while controlling his body.