Chapter Summaries

After pursuing Mo Yuqing for seven years, Chen Lu confessed to her once more and was rejected, so he finally decided to stop chasing her. He left the school with his friend Jiang Chao, resolved not to look back.

• Chen Lu confessed to Mo Yuqing in front of a crowd and told her he had pursued her for exactly seven years.
• Mo Yuqing said she did not like Chen Lu and warned that they would not even remain friends if he brought it up again.
• Chen Lu shouted that he had loved Mo Yuqing for seven years, then said he would not love her anymore and walked away.
• Jiang Chao comforted Chen Lu and took him out of the school, while Chen Lu suggested giving his roses to children.
• Chen Lu told Jiang Chao he was done chasing Mo Yuqing and swore he would not look back.

After Mo Yuqing rejected Chen Lu’s confession, Chen Lu declined her call for the first time while Mo Yuqing insisted she did not like him and expected him to return. The chapter left their relationship strained as Chen Lu’s roommates tried to comfort him and Mo Yuqing remained convinced he would come back.

• Chen Lu sat silently with Jiang Chao, Li Sinian, and Zheng Haoyu after the events of the day, then declined Mo Yuqing’s call.
• Jiang Chao tried to distract Chen Lu by commenting on a flyer girl, while Chen Lu reflected on how many times Mo Yuqing had ignored his calls.
• Mo Yuqing complained to Liu Yan that Chen Lu had not answered and nearly went to find him before deciding against it.
• Liu Yan reminded Mo Yuqing how much Chen Lu had done for her, but Mo Yuqing denied ever liking him and insisted he would return.
• Jiang Chao urged Chen Lu to stop investing his youth in Mo Yuqing, and an angry shout suddenly rang out nearby.

Chen Lu defended a part-time worker from a drunken student, then later found her alone in a park and treated her burn. As he gazed at her, Chen Lu realized how beautiful she was, while she shyly asked him to stop looking.

• Chen Lu stepped in when a drunken young man yelled at a part-time worker, and talked him into backing down.
• Chen Lu advised the girl to treat her burn and stand up for herself, then left with his roommates after dinner.
• Jiang Chao received a message from Mo Yuqing asking where Chen Lu was, but deleted her contact after replying that it was too late.
• Chen Lu wandered to a park and found the flyer-distributing girl crying alone on a bench.
• Chen Lu bought ointment and treated the girl's burn after learning she had skipped the pharmacy because medicine cost too much.
• Chen Lu became captivated by the girl's appearance, and she bashfully asked him not to keep looking at her.

Chen Lu walked Liang Zhirou home after helping her, then began cutting ties with Mo Yuqing while reflecting on their one-sided relationship. Liang Zhirou dreamed of the boy who had comforted her as a child and realized he had once been Chen Lu, though she still did not expect to meet him again.

• Chen Lu walked Liang Zhirou through the late-night streets, learned her name, and told her not to worry about repaying him for the medicine.
• Chen Lu unpinned Mo Yuqing's chat and removed her from his special care list while reviewing their old messages in a taxi.
• Chen Lu messaged Jiang Chao, then discarded his belongings connected to Mo Yuqing but kept a one-bead wooden bracelet.
• Liang Zhirou dreamed of her childhood in Hangcheng, when a boy comforted her by giving her a bubble machine and fruit candies.
• The young Liang Zhirou gave the boy her wooden bracelet, and he introduced himself as Flame Dragon before a well-dressed girl pulled him away.
• Liang Zhirou tucked the blanket around her mother and remembered that she had chosen her university to return to Hangcheng, where she and the boy could see the same clouds.

After Mo Yuqing rejected Chen Lu, he tried to move on, but a freshman named Lin Miaomiao told him that Liang Zhirou wanted to thank him in person. Delayed by his counselor, Chen Lu rushed through the rain to find Liang Zhirou still waiting outside the library, and her patience softened his heart.

• Chen Lu resisted messaging Mo Yuqing and told his roommates he needed time to let go of his seven-year pursuit.
• Jiang Chao woke Chen Lu to meet Lin Miaomiao, who said Liang Zhirou wanted to thank him and would wait outside the library.
• Chen Lu agreed to meet Liang Zhirou after class, but his counselor kept him busy sorting rosters.
• Despite the rain and his hour-long delay, Chen Lu ran to the library and found Liang Zhirou waiting outside in the cold.
• Chen Lu moved Liang Zhirou to shelter, and her explanation that she feared he would not find her left him deeply touched.

Chen Lu took Liang Zhirou out to eat after she thanked him, and the two shared an umbrella as they walked through the rain. Over noodles, he learned she was saving for her mother’s surgery and exchanged WeChat contact information with her.

• Chen Lu accepted Liang Zhirou’s offer to treat him to a meal and asked Jiang Chao to bring umbrellas to the library.
• Jiang Chao arrived with one umbrella, and Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou walked together through the rain.
• Chen Lu took Liang Zhirou to a noodle shop he used to visit with his father, where she paid for their meal.
• Chen Lu asked Liang Zhirou why she was saving money, and she told him she needed to pay for her mother’s surgery.
• Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou added each other on WeChat, and he noticed her bubble-machine profile picture.

Mo Yuqing tried to prove she could manage without Chen Lu, but seeing him eating with another girl made her confront him. Chen Lu told her why he had ended his devotion to her, and Mo Yuqing left in tears while he resolved not to turn back.

• Mo Yuqing struggled with the cafeteria crowds as she tried to handle ordinary tasks herself and went out with Liu Yan.
• Mo Yuqing saw Chen Lu eating quietly with another girl and angrily asked why he was spending time with someone else.
• Chen Lu reminded Mo Yuqing that he had stopped liking her after she rejected him and described how she had repeatedly neglected and rejected him.
• Mo Yuqing cried, said she would stop answering his calls, and walked away in the wrong direction as Liu Yan followed her.
• Chen Lu stayed behind, played aimlessly on his phone, and told himself that he would not return to Mo Yuqing despite the pain of letting go.

After Mo Yuqing confronted Chen Lu, Liang Zhirou comforted him with candy, and he accompanied her to her part-time job. Mo Yuqing struggled through errands while expecting Chen Lu to apologize, and Chen Lu later noticed that Liang Zhirou had sent and unsent him a greeting.

• Chen Lu told Liang Zhirou that he had pursued Mo Yuqing for seven years, and Liang Zhirou gave him candy because she did not want him to be sad.
• Chen Lu learned that Liang Zhirou lived off campus to care for her mother and insisted on taking her to her part-time job.
• Mo Yuqing exhausted herself collecting packages and buying food, then assumed Chen Lu would eventually apologize as usual.
• Chen Lu returned to the dorm, denied that anything was happening between him and Liang Zhirou, and realized he had no one to send a good-night message to.
• Liang Zhirou sent Chen Lu a good-evening message and then unsent it before he could reply.

Liang Zhirou nervously messaged Chen Lu, then cared for her paralyzed mother, Xiao Xunfang, and insisted they would keep trying to treat her illness. The chapter ended with Liang Zhirou smiling over Chen Lu’s late-night message reminding her to rest and treat her burn.

• Liang Zhirou agonized over what to say to Chen Lu before sending him a brief good evening message.
• Liang Zhirou prepared Xiao Xunfang’s foot bath and refused her mother’s suggestions to stop treatment or return to their hometown.
• Xiao Xunfang asked about Liang Zhirou’s burn, and Liang Zhirou said Chen Lu had bought her medicine.
• Xiao Xunfang learned Chen Lu was a boy and gently comforted Liang Zhirou without pressing her about their relationship.
• Liang Zhirou saw Chen Lu’s message telling her to rest early and put medicine on her burn, then saved a screenshot.

Chen Lu agreed to help Li Sinian with preparations for the university’s centennial celebration, while Mo Yuqing struggled to manage the dance club’s performance without his help. Chen Lu arrived at the rehearsal with equipment and advice, leaving Mo Yuqing to face the person she had been thinking about.

• Li Sinian woke Chen Lu early and asked him to help the club prepare a centennial celebration performance, and Chen Lu agreed after Li Sinian called him Dad and promised seafood buffets.
• Mo Yuqing coached the dance club’s juniors and reflected on how Chen Lu used to support her rehearsals and handle performance arrangements.
• A junior asked Mo Yuqing to help obtain missing props and sound equipment, but Mo Yuqing admitted she did not know how to manage those tasks.
• Mo Yuqing remembered how Chen Lu used to bring milk tea for everyone at her rehearsals, then realized their relationship had changed.
• Chen Lu entered the lecture hall carrying a speaker alongside the dance club’s vice president, who carried a pile of clothes, and began advising the club on its preparations.

Chen Lu helped Mo Yuqing’s dance club and then visited the drama club, where he watched Liang Zhirou work while talking with Lin Miaomiao. Mo Yuqing decided not to lower her head and would wait for Chen Lu to apologize, while Lin Miaomiao invited Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou to a meal after they finished setting up.

• Chen Lu fixed the dance club’s sound system without speaking to Mo Yuqing, then left as a freshman tried and failed to get his WeChat.
• Mo Yuqing felt unsettled when the freshman pursued Chen Lu, but rejected Liu Yan’s advice and decided to wait for his apology.
• Chen Lu visited the drama club, recognized Lin Miaomiao in her Kamisato Ayaka cosplay, and watched Liang Zhirou help set up the performance.
• Lin Miaomiao explained that she wanted to protect Liang Zhirou from people who might hurt her, and Chen Lu said he was kind to her because she had waited for him and given him candy.
• Lin Miaomiao offered to treat Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou to a meal, and Chen Lu joked that he could eat without helping because he was suited to eating soft rice.

Liang Zhirou confessed that she felt guilty for spending over thirty yuan on lunch instead of saving the money for her mother's treatment, and Chen Lu comforted her before helping the drama club. The chapter left Chen Lu relaxing in the shade while Liang Zhirou gently fanned him.

• Lin Miaomiao and Chen Lu noticed Liang Zhirou was upset, and Chen Lu coaxed her into explaining that she regretted spending money on lunch.
• Chen Lu reassured Liang Zhirou, who told him she had no regrets about treating him because he was different.
• Chen Lu went to help the drama club and promised to ask his student council friend about missing props and costumes.
• Lin Miaomiao stopped Liang Zhirou from joining the work, explaining that Chen Lu was handling tasks she could not help with.
• Chen Lu returned to the shade, bickered with Lin Miaomiao, and persuaded Liang Zhirou to rest and fan him.

Chen Lu cared for Liang Zhirou after she spent two hours fanning him, then took her to her part-time job and confronted Li Sinian about the dance club. That night, he discarded an old performance video tied to his past and learned Liang Zhirou wanted to see him again.

• Chen Lu woke to find Liang Zhirou still fanning him, took over, and promised to accompany her to work after his mother urged him to visit home.
• Chen Lu learned Lin Miaomiao had left after calling him and Liang Zhirou an adulterous couple, then met her again while taking Liang Zhirou across campus.
• Chen Lu brought fruit tea back to the dorm, where Li Sinian denied knowing the dance club would ask Mo Yuqing for help and accused Chen Lu of dating Liang Zhirou again.
• Chen Lu watched an old video of Mo Yuqing performing, remembered how his efforts had gone unacknowledged, and deleted the video.
• Liang Zhirou asked Chen Lu to come earlier the next morning, and after he teased her, she took ten minutes to reply that she wanted to see him.

Chen Lu wondered what Liang Zhirou meant by the “mm” she sent him, then arrived early at the drama club to help with manual labor. Liang Zhirou brought him homemade century egg and pork congee, and Chen Lu ate it all despite usually hating century eggs, while she worried about her awkward message from the night before.

• Chen Lu woke early, stole one of Jiang Chao’s steamed buns, and told him he was going to help the drama club because he owed its vice president a favor.
• Chen Lu reached the drama club venue before Liang Zhirou and teased Lin Miaomiao into giving up her chair.
• Liang Zhirou arrived carrying a lunchbox and offered Chen Lu congee she had made because she knew his stomach was bad.
• Chen Lu noticed Liang Zhirou’s dark circles and realized she had stayed up late and risen early to make the congee for him.
• Chen Lu ate all the century egg and pork congee despite disliking century eggs, while Liang Zhirou wondered whether he was hinting at the “mm” she had sent him.

Chen Lu thanked Liang Zhirou for breakfast and hoped to make their friendship balanced, then waited while she went to hand out flyers. As evening fell, he helped the drama club revise its script, and Liang Zhirou returned to carry equipment beside him.

• Chen Lu thanked Liang Zhirou for the breakfast, and she was relieved that he genuinely liked it.
• Chen Lu said he wanted them to be very good friends and for what they gave and received to be equal; Liang Zhirou explained that she was going to hand out flyers for extra money.
• Chen Lu asked Liang Zhirou to come back after work, and she agreed before leaving for the bus stop.
• Liang Zhirou compared herself with a girl she had seen in the cafeteria, tied her hair into a ponytail, and continued to her job.
• Chen Lu helped the drama club revise its historical play and carried equipment with the group as evening fell.
• Liang Zhirou returned and struggled alongside Chen Lu with the things they were carrying.

Chen Lu comforted Liang Zhirou after she told him about her father’s death and her determination to support her ill mother. He played guitar for her and urged her to keep her head high, promising that he would be right behind her.

• Chen Lu asked Liang Zhirou about her family, and she explained that her father had died and she was working to save money for her mother’s surgery.
• Chen Lu borrowed a guitar and first pretended he could not play, then performed songs for Liang Zhirou after Lin Miaomiao left.
• Chen Lu encouraged Liang Zhirou to hold her head high, value herself, and believe she could build a better life for her mother.
• Chen Lu brushed Liang Zhirou’s bangs aside and told her that whenever she grew tired, she could look back because he was right behind her.

After Chen Lu reassured Liang Zhirou and played guitar for her, Mo Yuqing saw them together and felt afraid of losing him. She went home expecting her mother to be there, found the house empty, and called her.

• Chen Lu promised Liang Zhirou he would stay by her side and played one last song before taking her to work.
• Mo Yuqing spotted Chen Lu performing for Liang Zhirou and remembered how he had learned guitar because she liked it.
• Mo Yuqing felt a sense of crisis that Chen Lu might leave her, then left her dance-club friends and hurried home.
• Mo Yuqing found her home dark and empty, sat on the sofa, and called her mother.

Mo Yuqing regretted losing Chen Lu after her mother dismissed her loneliness, while Chen Lu told Jiang Chao he was giving up on his seven-year unrequited love. The chapter left Chen Lu reflecting that repeated hurt had slowly extinguished his feelings for Mo Yuqing.

• Mo Yuqing called her mother for comfort, but her mother said she was busy and urged Mo Yuqing to spend time with Uncle Lin.
• Mo Yuqing almost called Chen Lu and realized she missed his companionship, then cried as she accepted that he might never return to her.
• Chen Lu returned to the dorm after seeing Liang Zhirou off and told Jiang Chao that he and Liang Zhirou were taking things slowly.
• Chen Lu told Jiang Chao he was giving up on Mo Yuqing after seven years of unreturned love.
• A thunderstorm reminded Chen Lu of the night he searched for Mo Yuqing as a child, and he reflected that his feelings had died slowly after years of hurt.

Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou grew closer as he teased her after she fell asleep on his shoulder. When Chen Lu encouraged her to try on a vintage school uniform, Liang Zhirou reluctantly agreed to show it only to him.

• Chen Lu continued visiting the drama club and traded meals with Liang Zhirou, who kept learning what foods he liked.
• Lin Miaomiao brought the Republic of China-era costumes to Chen Lu and Liang Zhirou, finding Liang Zhirou asleep on Chen Lu's shoulder.
• Liang Zhirou woke up embarrassed, and Chen Lu teased her into agreeing to let him sleep on her shoulder another time.
• Chen Lu told Liang Zhirou she looked pretty with her hair down, and she agreed to stop tying it up when she was not working.
• Chen Lu urged Liang Zhirou to try on the women's uniform, and she finally agreed to show it only to him.

Chen Lu helped Liang Zhirou change into a revealing outfit, took her photo, and insisted she keep wearing it. Meanwhile, Liu Yan confronted Mo Yuqing about her feelings for Chen Lu, leaving Mo Yuqing wondering whether she had treated him badly and fearing he might choose someone else.

• Liang Zhirou changed into a tight light-blue top and black skirt in an empty classroom while Chen Lu waited outside.
• Chen Lu brushed Liang Zhirou's bangs aside, took a photo of her, and refused to let her change back.
• Liu Yan told Mo Yuqing that Chen Lu playing guitar for another girl mattered and urged her to stop being stubborn.
• Mo Yuqing admitted she felt uncomfortable at the thought of Chen Lu with someone else and asked whether she had been bad to him.
• Liu Yan told Mo Yuqing she owed Chen Lu and said she should focus on winning him back.
• Mo Yuqing watched Liu Yan leave and thought of her parents, who had also been childhood sweethearts.