He appears in every episode; the early ones show flashbacks of him as a child, and He Yu enters the scene in the fifth episode, appearing in all the subsequent ones.
Oh my god, I had to pause at episode 8, around 12:40. ðŸ˜I absolutely love Yan Fu Zhi. She is honestly the best…
I feel the same way; when the protagonist was walking through the city celebrating her first-place victory and Fuzhi was jumping for joy, that really touched my heart in that moment—because the only thing I could think was: please, she can't die, or else it'll be absolutely heartbreaking :(