Recaps

Lin Er continued recounting how Lily tried to stop the Marauders from bullying Snape, but did not take his side until he was humiliated again. Snape insulted Lily, and the classmates debated whether they could accept help from a friend who had not stood with them.

• Lin Er told her classmates that Lily stopped the Marauders, allowing Snape to retrieve his wand, but he fought back and was hung upside down again.
• Lin Er explained that Lily repeatedly tried to make the Marauders stop and wanted Snape to abandon Dark Magic, though she did not immediately fight beside him.
• Lin Er recounted that Snape tried to retaliate, Black petrified him, and Lily finally drew her wand to protect him.
• After the Marauders mocked Snape and released him for Lily's sake, Snape called Lily a Mudblood.
• Lin Er explained the insult's meaning, then told the classmates that Lily called James an arrogant jerk and ran off while the Marauders humiliated Snape again.

Lin Er reflected on Snape’s past and her reasons for loving novels, then tried to write to her young pen pal, Prince, about Potions and the dangers of following Snape’s path. As class continued, she wondered whether the magic connecting them came from her mysterious rebirth and whether Prince lived in a different world.

• Lin Er told Shi Meng that Snape had freely joined the Death Eaters despite his later appeal to her.
• Lin Er remembered how a close friendship had once helped her become more confident and feel cared for.
• When Prince did not answer her question, Lin Er considered sending him a letter but put the blank page away when the history teacher arrived.
• Lin Er thought about recommending Snape as a Potions role model to Prince, whose pen name and interest in Potions reminded her of the Half-Blood Prince.
• Lin Er planned to discuss society and ethics with Prince once her English improved, and wondered whether his world and her own shared the same magic.
• Lin Er recalled a hazy dream from before her rebirth that might have given her the magic book, wand, and young pen pal as compensation.

Lin Er used her magic to begin turning a hidden ledge beside the deep pool into a secret base. After trading food with her little pen pal, she left the purple bamboo grove intact as cover and started carving a cave into the cliff.

• Lin Er flew over the river, caught small white fish, and made crispy dried-fish snacks.
• She sent food and dried fish to her little pen pal and received a pale purple stone in return.
• Lin Er flew to the cliff at three in the morning and found a small grove of purple bamboo on a ledge above the deep pool.
• She used Diffindo to hollow out the cliff behind the bamboo, planning to make a sheltered secret base.
• Lin Er built a stone wall among the bamboo to conceal future cooking and keep firelight from showing.

Lin Er prepared spicy river snails at her secret riverside base and brought some home, where Grandma Lin scolded her for taking food from others and made her trade apples for it. After finishing her homework, Lin Er tried to slip out again, but Lin Huihui exposed her little cake and Grandma Lin began scolding as Lin Er escaped through a neighbor’s house.

• Lin Er decided to blast out the riverside cave during the day after villagers nearly discovered her nighttime work.
• Lin Er bribed Lin Huihui with spicy strips, went to the river, cooked a wokful of spicy snails, and brought home a small basin with freshly caught fish.
• Grandma Lin scolded Lin Er for bringing home food from someone else and took two apples to repay them; the family ate the snails and Grandpa Lin shared baijiu with her.
• Lin Er finished her school worksheet at home and persuaded Grandma Lin to let her go out after making Lin Huihui complete most of her homework.
• Lin Huihui spotted Lin Er’s little cake and yelled to Grandma Lin that her sister had money to buy treats, so Lin Er slapped her and escaped through the old neighbor’s house.

Lin Er sold her seasoned river snails outside Experimental High and made a profit, then bought food and study supplies for her pen pal. As she headed back, she spotted a five-yuan note in the corridor and hesitated over whether to pick it up.

• Lin Er took a bucket of cooked river snails to Experimental High and sold them for one yuan per cup as students returned to school.
• Lin Er sold out, promised her repeat customers she would return the following week, and calculated that she had made at least a hundred yuan in profit.
• Lin Er bought stir-fried rice noodles for herself and her pen pal, then shopped for more food to send him.
• Her pen pal requested a notebook and pen, so Lin Er bought those along with several English dictionaries and sent them through the magic book.
• Lin Er spotted a five-yuan note in the corridor near the school gate and worried that everyone would see her pick it up.

Lin Er accidentally used the Summoning Charm to take a man's fifty yuan, then returned home with a large fish and money she had earned selling river snails. Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin counted her earnings, and Grandma Lin called someone after learning how much she had made.

• Lin Er cast the Summoning Charm for paper money, accidentally summoned a nearby man's fifty yuan, and used Obliviate after he saw her catch it.
• Lin Er returned home with a large fish, and Grandma Lin helped prepare it while Lin Huihui tried to snoop through Lin Er's backpack.
• Lin Er asked her grandparents if they would sell food, then revealed a bag of small bills from her backpack.
• Lin Er told Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin that she had sold a bucket of river snails for one yuan a cup outside Experimental High.
• Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin counted 134 yuan, and Grandma Lin went to make a phone call.

Lin Er introduced her grandparents to selling river snails so her family could earn money, while keeping quiet about the cash she had gathered with magic. After her grandmother caught her hiding how she got a fish, Lin Er left for school with extra spending money and a growing sense that her family’s habits might hold them back.

• After Lin Er was scolded for selling river snails, Dad Lin suggested Grandma Lin could make and sell them, and Lin Er decided to teach her grandparents the business.
• The next morning, Lin Er found Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin had gathered two basins of snails, then hurried to retrieve her bucket, pot, and seasonings from the new house.
• Lin Er explained how to prepare the snails and defended her secret cooking, but Grandma Lin soon asked where her fish had come from and struck her with a rag when she confessed she had picked it up.
• Grandma Lin made Lin Er wash her hair and continued scolding her, while Grandpa Lin packed her some fish to take to school.
• Grandma Lin gave Lin Er another ten yuan for school, and Lin Er argued that she needed money for daily expenses and to reciprocate friends’ snacks before leaving.

Lin Er settled into school life with more confidence, while her classmates remained curious about how much she had changed. She recited her Chinese assignment and was praised by the English teacher for scoring over 110 on a test.

• Lin Er saw teachers carrying down the peanuts she had forgotten to collect from the roof, and they guessed a bird had stored them there.
• Lin Er paid her living expenses, and the class monitor noticed how different she looked from when she first enrolled.
• Lin Er joined the line to recite her Chinese homework, completed it successfully, and left after the group leader checked her name.
• Lin Er reflected on old classmates and decided not to force friendships in her new life.
• Lin Er's English teacher praised her score of over 110 on an in-class test, leaving her blushing for much of the lesson.

Lin Er used high test scores to dispel rumors that she was intellectually disabled while keeping busy with magic, school, and nighttime excursions. As she began taking weekly tests, she sent her pen pal Chinese-learning tapes and a tape repeater to help him study.

• Lin Er scored highly on English tests, causing rumors about her intellectual disability to collapse, though classmates and teachers later speculated that she had trouble concentrating.
• Lin Er used the Summoning Charm to collect lost money and spent evenings cleaning snails, expanding her cave, and flying to the outskirts of the city to gather more money.
• Lin Er stored the items she summoned, including jewelry, coins, and low-denomination notes, in a wooden box.
• Lin Er continued asking teachers questions after class despite often daydreaming, while her test results remained above average in the main subjects.
• Lin Er began taking weekly tests and sent her pen pal her primary-school Chinese tapes and tape repeater so he could learn Chinese.

Lin Er spent the National Day holiday helping her grandparents sell river snails, while learning why their business succeeded and why their elderly neighbor had stopped visiting. The chapter left the family’s snail business thriving despite a relative’s attempt to copy it.

• Lin Er learned that Xu Duoduo had left school because her mother was taking her to have surgery.
• Lin Er’s grandparents spent the holiday selling cooked river snails in the city, and Grandma Lin claimed their rivals had quit because customers avoided their poorly cleaned snails.
• Lin Er realized her magic was cleaning the snails and secretly used it when Grandma Lin’s salt failed to remove the grit.
• Grandma Lin told Lin Er that the elderly aunt’s daughter had copied their snail business, but her dirty, inferior snails and false claim to their name drove customers away.

Lin Er watched her grandparents leave to sell snails and let Lin Huihui take their share to play with friends, then secretly sent snails to her pen pal. She reflected on discovering that he lived in the Harry Potter world in 1967 and chose not to reveal the dangers ahead, leaving their friendship growing closer through their letters.

• Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin rode into the city to sell river snails, leaving Lin Er to watch Lin Huihui.
• Lin Huihui took the snails Grandma Lin had left for them and went to share them with her friends, while Lin Er let her go.
• Lin Er secretly sent her pen pal half a portion of snails and recalled that he had sent her pain-relieving Potions.
• Lin Er realized her pen pal lived in 1967 and confirmed his world was the Harry Potter world after he mentioned Hogwarts.
• Lin Er decided not to warn her seven-year-old pen pal about future dangers or ask him to save anyone, and their letters grew more frequent.

Lin Er realized she could use a cell phone to communicate with her young pen pal, so she flew to the city and bought one. After learning about translation options from a fellow customer, she gave him her saved spicy river snails and headed back toward the park.

• Lin Er counted her 4,032 yuan and 60 fen and decided to buy a cell phone.
• Lin Er used a Disillusionment Charm and flew by broom toward the city, avoiding houses, highways, and surveillance cameras.
• At a Samsung shop on East Street, Lin Er joined a man's purchase to bargain for two phones and gifts.
• The man questioned whether Lin Er had stolen her family's money, and she joked that she had stolen money for her little brother's excess-birth fine.
• Lin Er asked the man about English translation software, gave him her saved spicy river snails as thanks, and left without telling him her real name.

Lin Er explored the lively plaza, secretly bought gifts and supplies, and used her enchanted schoolbag and a magic book to bring her purchases home. She returned after dark and cheered up the tearful Lin Huihui with instant noodles.

• Lin Er watched Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin sell snacks at the plaza, then wandered through the stalls without letting them notice her.
• Lin Er bought toys, batteries, and game prizes for Prince, including a piggy bank, panda plush, tricycle toy, and pendant.
• Lin Er discovered Wenchang Tower and an underground supermarket, where she bought bedding, snacks, and clothes for her pen pal.
• Lin Er hid her purchases in her enchanted schoolbag and magic book passage, covering a restroom camera with levitated toilet paper as she left.
• Lin Er arrived home after dark and found Lin Huihui crying because she had thought Lin Er was missing.
• Lin Er gave Lin Huihui instant noodles, and Lin Huihui quickly stopped crying and followed her to prepare them.

Lin Er and her family earned over five hundred yuan selling river snails, then expanded their work with help from Grandma She and She Pengfei. Lin Er also began openly using her magic to find money in the city, where she discovered a secluded spot beside Wenchang Tower.

• Grandma Lin counted the money from four buckets of river snails and decided to focus on selling snails instead of peanuts.
• Lin Er and Grandpa Lin prepared snails at home while Grandma Lin collected more with Lin Huihui, then Grandma She and She Pengfei joined to help remove the tails.
• The family finished processing two basins of snails, and Grandma Lin began stir-frying them for sale.
• During the holiday, Grandma Lin’s family sold up to six buckets a day, and Lin Er helped deliver them as customers returned.
• Lin Er went to the city and used magic to find money, earning at least two or three hundred yuan a day from a secluded stairwell beside Wenchang Tower.

Lin Er asked an old martial arts teacher in the city to accept her as a student, hoping to learn self-defense, but he required an adult guardian’s approval. She persuaded Grandpa Lin to hear the teacher out, leaving the family’s decision unresolved as Xiao Qiang recognized her grandparents’ snail stall.

• Lin Er found an old man teaching children martial arts and asked to join his class, but he told her to bring an adult because lessons cost a hundred a day.
• Lin Er returned to the square and asked Grandpa Lin to take her to the teacher, explaining she would pay for lessons herself and attend on weekends.
• Grandpa Lin worried about Lin Er traveling alone, but she persuaded him that learning martial arts would help her protect herself and pursue her dreams.
• Lin Er and Grandpa Lin entered the alley, where the old teacher and another elderly man spoke while Xiao Qiang led the children through stretches.
• Xiao Qiang learned that Lin Er’s grandparents owned the snail stall in the park and said he had bought their snails before.

Lin Er forgot to return to school for evening study after visiting a martial arts master with her grandparents, then arrived late and took her monthly exams. Afterward, her class waited for exam results and a promised seat change that their homeroom teacher delayed.

• Lin Er learned that her apprenticeship ceremony would take place the following week, then realized she had forgotten evening study and hurried back with Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin.
• Grandma Lin scolded and smacked Lin Er for missing school, while Grandpa Lin explained that they had found her a martial arts master.
• Lin Er reached school late, apologized to Gao Bo, and returned to the dorm, where Shi Meng and Wang Juan asked why she had arrived so late.
• Lin Er took the monthly exams and estimated her total score at around 480 points across six subjects.
• The students waited for a seat change after the exams, but their homeroom teacher delayed it for another week because the results were not ready.

Lin Er balanced schoolwork and language lessons with her young pen pal while setting a goal of getting into First High. She began martial arts training as Master Li’s first outer disciple and learned the school’s etiquette from Li Qiang.

• Lin Er exchanged language recordings with her pen pal, improved her English, and resolved to study hard enough to aim for First High.
• Grandma Lin woke Lin Er early for her martial arts initiation after agreeing that the lessons could help her stay safe away from home.
• Lin Er traveled with her grandparents to Master Li’s home, completed the disciple ceremony, and became his first outer disciple.
• After her grandparents left, Li Qiang teased Lin Er and led her into the backyard for her first lesson.
• Master Li assigned Li Qiang to teach Lin Er etiquette and martial virtue, and Li Qiang demonstrated the fist-and-palm salute.

Lin Er began learning martial arts from Master Li and struggled to relax because of old family expectations that had taught her to suppress her energy. She committed to daily horse-stance practice while returning to her demanding school routine, though the bus ride down the mountain still made her pale.

• Lin Er struggled with martial arts postures until Li Qiang left her alone, after which she loosened up and performed the movements correctly.
• Li Chenghua explained to Li Qiang that Lin Er was thoughtful and driven, not naturally outgoing, and that she wanted to learn martial arts to prepare for the world.
• Li Qiang returned and found Lin Er practicing with correct movements and a fierce expression.
• Lin Er learned etiquette and the horse stance, then Master Li taught her school rules and precepts from an old handwritten book.
• Master Li let Lin Er take home writing supplies and set her a daily horse-stance practice routine, which she planned to fit around school.
• Lin Er rode the bus back to town and got off at the mountain pass feeling pale from the winter journey.

Lin Er balanced early-morning martial arts practice with school and her family's snail-cleaning work as her grades improved. After the school replaced its desks and chairs, she joined Shi Meng and her friends in a desirable seating group, where they invited her to celebrate after the midterms.

• Lin Er continued practicing horse stance before school and cleaning river snails for her family after evening study.
• Her classmates joked about Lin Er becoming an example used by another class's teacher, while their class took pride in its strong academic results.
• The school replaced its desks and chairs, and students chose new seats in rank order.
• Shi Meng invited Lin Er to sit near her and Yan Jingting, and Xu Wang joined their conversation.
• Shi Meng asked Lin Er whether she wanted to go into the city with the group after the midterms.

Lin Er began martial arts lessons and exchanged letters, food, and magical supplies with her young pen pal Prince and his mother. After Master Li warned her against using strengthening potions, Prince's mother traded Lin Er's gold for other remedies, while the two pen pals continued trying to communicate across their language barrier.

• Lin Er told her classmates she had started learning martial arts at the Li Family Martial Arts School, and Xu Wang showed interest in joining.
• The homeroom teacher asked Lin Er to make a seating chart, which she completed with Yan Jingting's help.
• Lin Er trained over the weekend while Prince's mother began helping Prince with food, and Lin Er agreed to exchange food for potions and magical supplies under a parchment agreement.
• Lin Er drank a strengthening potion from Prince's mother, but Master Li noticed something unusual and told her not to take medicine indiscriminately.
• Prince's mother exchanged Lin Er's gold for Dittany and an Improved Pepperup Potion after Master Li forbade her from using the strengthening potions.
• Lin Er and Prince continued studying Chinese and English and guessing at each other's words because they could not afford a magical translation solution.

Lin Er and Yan Jingting discovered that they and Ying Yuecheng and Ying Yuechi were all attending the same relative’s birthday banquet. At the banquet, Lin Er and the brothers ate separately from the other relatives, and Ying Yuecheng brought Yan Jingting to join them.

• Lin Er and Yan Jingting met while asking for leave and realized they were attending the same birthday banquet as Ying Yuecheng and Ying Yuechi.
• The four students told their teachers they were relatives, and Lin Er explained to Yan Jingting why she was not close to her cousins.
• Lin Er and the brothers left school together and arrived at the banquet, where Yan Jingting joined her family and Lin Er sat with her cousins.
• Ying Yuecheng led Lin Er and Ying Yuechi to the kitchen to eat separately, avoiding the relatives’ comments about Ying Yuechi.
• Ying Yuecheng found Yan Jingting and brought her to the kitchen table to eat with them.

Lin Er shared a feast and exchanged food with her young pen pal through the magic book, while she and her classmates stopped at an internet cafe to harvest crops. At school, Lin Er heard that her overly sweet cake had helped Wang Juan sleep and learned more about the varied romantic lives of her classmates.

• Lin Er realized her family had remembered her fondness for softshell turtle and packed a portion to share with her pen pal.
• Ying Yuechi, Ying Yuecheng, Yan Jingting, and Lin Er stopped at an internet cafe to steal crops before rushing back to class.
• Lin Er exchanged softshell turtle and strawberry cream cake with her young pen pal through the magic book, then sent him a gift bag of snacks and milk.
• Wang Juan told Lin Er that the cake had helped her fall asleep, and Lin Er kept quiet about having cast Stupefy on her.
• Xu Chao asked Lin Er to find out where the cake came from, then blushed and destroyed her reply when she exposed him.
• Yan Jingting asked Lin Er about the notes from her desk mates, and Lin Er warned her not to spread gossip that could reach their homeroom teacher.

Lin Er received an improvement certificate and a beauty potion from her young pen pal, which inspired her to make money through magical fishing. At school, her classmates noticed her lighter complexion, while her magical belongings continued to attract attention.

• Lin Er ranked eighty-eighth in the school midterms and received an improvement certificate.
• Her young pen pal ventured to Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley, so Lin Er took back the wizard set she had lent him.
• Lin Er drank the beauty potion her young pen pal had sent and found that it permanently lightened her skin.
• Lin Er grew enthusiastic about making money through nighttime fishing, and Prince's mother began sending her Potions in exchange for her catch.
• Yan Jingting noticed Lin Er's lighter complexion, and Lin Er attributed her thick hair and good skin to her family.
• Lin Er recalled that her classmates had asked about her wand after watching Kiki's Delivery Service, and she had claimed a relative gave it to her.

Lin Er balanced school life, chores, and studying while agreeing to compete in the winter sports meet. The chapter ended with her classmates teasing her for repeatedly interpreting literature as expressing longing for home.

• Lin Er collected unwanted milk, cooked simple meals, and downloaded anime for her young pen pal.
• Shi Meng took over bringing Lin Er hot water, while Lin Er carried cold water to their dormitory.
• Lin Er agreed to run the girls' 1,000 meters but refused the shot put, and she joined Shi Meng and Yan Jingting to exercise after evening study.
• Lin Er received another Chinese test score in the seventies, and Yan Jingting and Shi Meng teased her for answering that poems expressed longing for home.

After the class finished writing essays, Lin Er and her friends escaped the homeroom teacher’s punishment laps, then joined the winter sports meet. Lin Er wrote several anonymous cheering messages, and the broadcast grew increasingly provocative as the first-year classes joined in.

• The homeroom teacher made students who had not finished their essays run laps, and Lin Er and her three friends slipped away when he was on the far side of the track.
• Wang Juan told the others how the homeroom teacher chased and kicked the students, including throwing a shoe at Wu You.
• The first-year classes marched in the sports meet opening ceremony, and the athletes searched for their events afterward.
• When the first-year announcer rallied students to send cheering messages, Lin Er was assigned three despite having two events.
• Lin Er and her friends wrote anonymous messages, and the broadcast began airing cheers for Year One, Class One alongside messages from the older students.
• The cheering messages grew so brazen that students from a neighboring class wondered if they were picking a fight, while the four friends kept their authorship secret.