« You don’t need to worry about me ; I am working now. I’m a mature adult »

Interning in a design company did not go exactly as SZ expected. Sang Yan was angry about his sister disobeying him and staying alone in the dorm in Yihe. SZ was troubled that she could not manage to set things straight with him, even though both her parents had agreed to her summer plan. A stress relief toy was useful, and eye-drops too : both Jiaxu and Sang Zhi were glossing over their troubles, while they went hungry and sleepless. Jiaxu was touched when he was sent a paper bag by SZ.. But next morning, Monday July 2, despite starting sweetly, saw worries and threats pile up, until the evening where SZ’s superior Xiaoyu arranged for an undesirable meeting.Puzzle : Jiaxu was talking with his team at a table. What were their plans ? Why did not he dig in with them? Did you find where this piece fits in the episode?« You don’t need to worry about me ; I am working now. I’m a mature adult» 你不用担心我的, 我现在已经上班了。我是个成熟的大人。

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First snow, wishes and old promises

This episode is about expectations, as the calendar New Year was at the doors. Zhi was expecting a quiet night out for dinner with Jiaxu, when everybody was going to noisy places. But the obnoxious Jiang Ying disrupted the harmony,, demanding from Jiaxu to honor impossible promises. Zhi showed her protective virtue in actions, but her latest one fell foul to an unexpected misunderstanding, caused by Jiaxu's own protective attitude. Imperfect communication proved that keeping thoughts silent was not the best way to make wishes on the first snow come true... Snippet puzzle before end credits : Jiaxu was examining the gift and installing it on the door. This puzzle part is easy to place. What is best, in a case-by-case approach of trouble in ypur opinion ? Recording and watching to guard well-barred doors, or talking things through to stay within reasonable expectations and leave a door open so as not to shut out someone by mistake ? Notice: On the rooftop, Jiaxu was considering adding 只只 to her name tag in his phone directory, but decided against it, keeping her full name in his friend circle 朋友圈

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When she learned how to spell her crush's name

Duan Jiaxu is an experienced tutor, as he proves to Sang Zhi when he lets her read his resume. He also has ideas about how to spark an interest for the subject in a bored but intelligent student : fun facts, that's what such kids like ! Sang Zhi felt daring but also somewhat worried that Brother n°1 and/or n°2 might guess her inner thoughts from a mislaid item or from her behavior, when she danced away from her secret picture taking, airily shouting an ambiguous "brother is handsome" at the two students who were playing video games. Did you check out the picture she had drawn in her notebook when she should have been reviewing her lesson? that snippet fit in before the pedagogical outing.Mischievous "Little Demon" Sang Zhi is sweet and innocent while the young men are clueless that she harbors a growing crush in her impish head. The episode is a delight to watch and rewatch.

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« What other girls have, my Zhi must have too » 別的小姑娘有的, 我们只只也得有

The relationship was still in the courting stage, but Sang Zhi was increasingly impressed by Jiaxu, who showed unknown to her skills that far outranked those of the college students on the sports field. She had retaliated with a peck to the cheeky trick he had performed during the lecture, but was still unsure about admitting the extent of her care to him. He did not want to hurry her, just to agree to "help him get married before his 27th birthday". She did not say no. His birthday was a very romantic experience.A few days later, he was carrying a bag of groceries and a watermelon when they got to a cooler place in the hot day, to let her do her studies in view of exam more comfortably... (Btw : that was a neat shift from the "central air conditioning" joke: Jiaxu was now turning on the "personal(ized) one" !).Puzzle! Did you find where the end scene fit in, when Sang Zhi booked the birthday gift and had her mom on the phone in view of a certain recipe ? Clue : it is not the dress.

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The unbearable lightness of living in the shade of the past

This episode was heavier in tone than the previous one, and loaded with past and present pain.CZY acted all the emotions of exhaustion, quiet exasperation, physical pain and mental torment from his workload and the harassment by Jiang Ying. ZLS was acting correspondingly as a conflicted young woman, still trying to free herself from the remnants of her former puppy love, unable to fit in with her roommates and fellow students' plans, and taking upon herself a sudden responsibility for her former tutor's health troubles. ***** Puzzle : Did you not skip the snippet where she was choosing a pair of tennis shoes instead of formal closed toe sandals with medium heels ? Did you find where it fit into the episode, and did you understand her meaning of making the dinner date casual by not dressing up too much ?Notice: it started out lighthearted with a phone exchange about her long and formal text message, after which Jiaxu playfully asked her if that meant she had him "in her heart", joking about the formal ideograph 您 (formal "you" with a 心heart key under the informal 你 "you") 您 being used to address elder, or unacquainted, people, in respect, such as teachers, directors etc, but not close friends and members of a family.

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Months skip by quickly

On the eve of Chinese New Year, Sang Zhi was still being tutored, but she was going to see him less in the next few months. Jiaxu moved to Yihe, from which he was encouraging her studies with rewards of toys for good grades. She prepared a thoughtful gift for him for his graduation ceremony, when he would be back for it in June. The four student friends had pictures taken, and one was with her. But she was too shy to hand over her gift in front of everybody. When could she slip it to him before he flew back? Did you check out the snippet in the end and find out his reaction to the other gift Sang Zhi had slipped to him, and did you see where that snippet fit in the timeline of the episode?In this episode, we can see the care they consciously or not have for each other. Jiaxi is too troubled by his complicated family matter and the annoying text harassment from the mysterious Jiang Ying to notice that his student has grown from childish 14 year old (looking 4 years shorter and younger) to sweet 16. He just seems surprised that she looks so much taller now.

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