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Your Highness, The Class Monitor (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

Chinese Drama 2019

Your Highness, The Class Monitor (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

✴️✴️¾ out of 5✴️


Your Highness, The Class Monitor poster

  • Genre: Youth, School, Feisty Female Lead, Arrogant Gorgeous Male Lead, Romance
  • Release Date: 30 May 2019
  • Origin: China, Adapted from a novel
  • Cdrama: 36 Episodes

Cast:

  • Xing Fei as Su Nian Nian
  • Niu Junfeng as Gu Zi Chen
  • Liu Yu Hang as Ye Xing Yu
  • Yang Xin Ying as Song Yu Xi
  • Li Yi Ling as Yin Chu Xia
  • Ma Li as Chen Yuan
  • Andy Wu as Tang Yu

Quick Precis:

This should be fun and really cute.

Apparently, a rather arrogant and spoilt chaebol meets a self-possessed girl.

Initially, they bickered until they found out they actually complete each other. 🙂


 Episode 1

It started at present time when Nian Nian was looking at a car to fix.  She seemed to have become a car mechanic?!!!

Nian Nian was with the man who gave her so much grief when she started as an engineering college.

They were looking at a car when someone came out from under the car which surprised Nian Nian so much.

Her friend scolded the man, who said I get it you are her boyfriend.

Her friend said not me, him, pointing to Gu Zi Chen.

Then two years previously…

Su Nian Nian was a bright girl.  She studied so vigorously because she dreams of going to one of the best universities in China.

She was on course with her plans but one day during an exam for comprehension and literature, she had an accident while cycling to the test centre.  She ended in the hospital and that put paid to her dreams.

Still, she prayed against hope that one good university will accept her but no such luck.

Instead, an acceptance letter arrived from a little known school.  It was Qun Ying Machinery & Electrical University, which she found out was the alma mater of both her father and mother.

Her father said that QYU is the best in Dong Zhou City.

Nian Nian did not have much hope or choice so she allowed her father to enroll her to the school.

Her trepidation increased when she learned that QYU mainly caters for boys, well it is a mechanical school.

The enrolment officer did try to allay her fears by saying that there are plenty of girls in this current enrolment period.  There are 8 girls.

Nian Nian just shook her had.  Anyway, she has a backup plan.  If she really hated the place, she has a plan of dropping out.

Her father took her to her dorm, which was quite nice.  She was then surprised by a pretty bubbly girl as a roommate.

The girl absolutely loved being in predominantly a boy’s college. She thought she could take time choosing her prince charming.

Also enrolled in the school was Xin Chen, a spoiled boy from a very rich family.  He is arrogant and takes no nonsense from anybody.

Episode 2

Strangely Zi Chen was apparently a graduate of Princeton University in IT and yet he was forced back to a third rate university by his rich father.

Anyway, Nian Nian was being shown the university Song Yu Xi when they saw a handsome guy reading at the almost deserted study room.

Xu Yi told her that the boy was Ye Xing Yu, known as 2nd Mr Wonderful.

And Second Wonderful then found them in the canteen.

He bought the girls some food and then Song Yu Xi suddenly exclaimed that the real Mr Wonderful is coming.

Nian Nian was so annoyed.

Mr Wonderful turned out to be the boy who caused her a good university.  He was the reason for his accident.

With further ado, with her fork she went to attack Mr Wonderful, who easily caught her arm.  She told him that he was scum and did a hit and run with her.

Mr Wonderful, Xin Chen, suddenly remembered her.  And he remembered differently what happened at that time.

She fell on the road by her own doing while on the bike.  He actually rescued her and took her to the hospital.

Nian Nian did not believe him and took her chance and slapped him hard.

In the first episode, the doctor gave a prognosis to her father that the accident was due to stress and over-study.

I don’t know why her father did not tell her this.

The news about them Nian Nian and Xin Chen became viral at the school.  A young student who thinks himself as a paparazzi made up stories that the two were former lovers who brought in their love problem to their university life.

Episode 3

Zi  Chen attended a party with his parents.  Also at the party were children of other business owners.

Zi  Chen encouraged everyone to drink and he got drunk.

His mother put him in a taxi, which coincidentally was being driven by Nian Nian’s father.

Zui Chen was too drunk to get out of the taxi unaided so the father spoke with Nian Nian who helped her father.

They left Zi Chen at the security office but he threw up.  The security guard insisted that Nian Nian clean up the mess.

She was so annoyed with him that she was telling off his prone body, she thought.  But he suddenly pulled her to him.

She was vengeful.  She wanted to beat him up but that might be a murder so the next best thing was…

Xin Chen walked refreshed.  He was arrogantly sauntering towards the school when he noticed that everyone was looking at him, happy.

He thought they have never seen a handsome guy like him.

The bully boys who called themselves The Remarkables were about to confront him but when he turned around to look at them, they started sniggering. One of them showed his mobile phone to Xin Chen and for the first time, he saw the drawings on his face.

He met Xing Yu at the gents who can’t help laughing as well.

Zi Chen said that whoever did this to him will pay.

It was the start of class.  Nian Nian found out that she was in a class with the Remarkables, Zi Chen, Xing Yu and Chu Xia.

Zi Chen was inciting her to be annoyed and she was.

Episode 4

Zhao Ming Yuan, the leader of the so-called Remarkables, desperately wanted to become the class monitor.  He would have been looking after his schoolmates for the next four years.

Mr Jiang, however, had other plans, he called Nian Nian aside and offered her the position of the monitor.

She was going to turn it down but Gu Xin Chen suddenly materialised and proceeded to challenge her competency.

Nian Nian got so annoyed she accepted the position.

But she would regret it…

Zhao Ming Yuan and his two sidekicks were doing everything for Nian Nian to give up being the monitor.

First they sent her an envelope full of insect, they then put superglue on her seat causing her pants to rip, they also change her water bottle with one with insect on it, which she drunk accidentally.  The last straw was the loss of her book given to her by her crush, Tang Yu, with his picture tucked among the pages.

Nian Nian has three potential boys fighting over her affection.

She had a rather cute moment with Ye Xing Yu when he lent her his long sleeve shirt, which he tied himself around her bottom half.  Awww

Episode 5

He Mei, a former high school classmate of Nian Nian visited her at QYU.  He Mei really wanted to see Gu Zi Chen again, who she previously learned was going at the same uni as Nian Nian.

He Mei was disappointed to note that she did not make any lasting impression with Gu Zi Chen, who she met during the businessmen and family gala.

Despite almost tortured daily for being a monitor, Nian Nian was not giving up.

Her homeroom professor had added a task to her duties as a monitor.

She has to inspect dorm rooms of everyone for health and safety.

As she went from room to room, she began to realise that boys are perversely perverted including Gu Zi Chen and the gentle Ye Xing Yu when she found him half-naked and bending over Gu Zi Chen.

This made her run away hysterically. 🙂

Episode 6

Nian Nian and Ye Xing Yu are falling for each other.  Xing Yu is gentle and caring and willing to lend her his jacket whenever she needed it.

Zi Chen’s father sent his assistant to spy on his son in order to find out if he was attending and behaving at school.

What the spy saw was Zi Chen was rather intimate with a girl (Nian Nian) by the loo.

The spy reported this to the parents who started planning a wedding.  LOL

Episode 7

Poor Nian Nian, she was convinced by her two dorm room friends to go to the gym to exercise and watch basketball.

Xing Yu and Zi Chen were playing against each other.  At a crucial point of the game, the ball bounced into Nian Nian’s head causing her to faint.

Zi  Chen was rather frustrated as he wanted to tend to Nian Nian but Xing Yu had her in his arm immediately.

The boy-mad YuXi pretended to faint as well but she as ignored.

When Nian Nian came to, it was Zi Chen who was watching over her.

Then ended up bickering again.

Nian Nian left the clinic still half-woozy.  She met the Remarkables who interrogated her who reported their messy dorm which earned them minus three in their grades which would mean repeating some subjects.

They were planning to punish her in some ways.

Nian Nian is becoming a victim of extreme bullying that Xin Chen had taken matters into his own hands and had an interview with the budding school paparazzi.

Epidose 8

Zi Chen revealed that it was true, the rumours are true that Nian Nian was his girlfriend in the past and because of a misunderstanding they’ve broken up but now they have reconciled!

The bullying continued and it really got creepy.

The Remarkables locked Nian Nian in a rat-infested stock room where the lights had gone off.

Nian Nian was beside herself with fright as she had claustrophobia.  The three guys then forgot all about her until 3-4 hours later.

Nian Nian was able to call Zi Chen who ran all the way from a nearby restaurant to rescue her.

But when he got there he found Xing Yu was keeping her company from the other side of the door, playing her his new song.

Feeling that he was redundant, left.

When Nian Nian was finally rescued, they found her unconscious.  The teacher and school doctor can see that Nian Nian was unwell so they gave her a couple of days to recover.

Nian Nian though had had enough and had a though with her school adviser that she wanted to drop out.

He was very surprised and did everything to change her mind.  Finally, he said that she actually needed the signature of her guardian to drop out.  The Teacher said that he will give her time to think things through with her father.

Episode 9

Nian Nian had always been half-hearted with the third rate university she was enrolled in.  So she took her chance to drop out.

She’s gone home and found her father scrimping on the food he eats.

He was shocked when he learned her decision to drop out.

Nian Nian thought that she could easily find a job to save money so she could retake the NCEE and go to a first-class university.

She found out fast that with just a high school diploma, jobs are rather scarce.

Her father was so stressed with money and now with Nian Nian determined to drop out from uni, he crashed his taxi to a rather expensive car.

Nian Nian quickly found out that the crash was all a hoax so she goes back to QYC

Episode 10

The school was so desperate to get her back that they made an enticing offer for Nian Nian to return as a monitor.  They will pay her as a school monitor.

Xing Yu was approached by the Remarkables and confessed that they were the ones who locked up Nian Nian.  They asked him to convince Nian Nian to come back and they then apologise to her.  For some reason, they miss her at school.  She gives them discipline.

This is a cute drama but there’s not enought interaction between the leads and it is already 10 episodes.  I hoped the script had been tighter.

Episode 11

Nian Nian had returned to QYU and everyone was happy until she announced her new study period as the class monitor.

The Remarkables had been warned by Zi Chen to behave.

The Remarkables were really sorry for what they did to Nian Nian so Zhu Cheng surprised her with pet mice in a nice container.

Nian Nian was so surprised she screamed her head off in fright.  Zhu Cheng was genuinely contrite; he really thought that she would appreciate the cute little mice. Yu Xi actually loved them.

The first night of the study period, Zhou Ming Yuan tripped Nian Nian.  He did not expect her to really get hurt but she was taken by Xing Yu to the infirmary as her hand was bleeding.

The doctor told her that she had now broken the record for the most visits to the infirmary.

Zhu Cheng and Chen Yuan asked Zhao Ming Yuan why he did it to Nian Nian.  They both thought that they will now give Nian Nian a break.

Zhao Ming Yuan said he did it to smoke out the one that would really bully Nian Nian.

Episode 12

The Remarkables had decided to protect Nian Nian from then on.  Zhao Ming Yuan caught the boy who wanted to have Nian Nian harmed.

Meanwhile,  Chu Xia was at the computer centre hanging out with the boys, playing boisterous computer games.  Ming Yuan jabbed her in the chest in jest.

Chu Xia suddenly became self-conscious and then Zhao Ming Yuan realised that she was a girl.  His surprised exclamation was overheard by everyone. who started teasing Chu Xia, who got upset because she thought they believe that she was a girl.

Ming Yuan came to seek her out to apologise.

Nian Nian was harassing  Zi Chen and they ended up falling into a lake.  He saved her and was gratified that she apologised to him.  He said she was actually rather reasonable,

Episode 13

NIan Nian was conducting the study group.  Some of her classmates complained that she seemed to be playing favouritism by allowing Zi Chen to sleep the whole time while they had to listen to her.

Nian Nian did not have a choice but to ask Zi Chen to recite what they had been learning.

He quickly read the text and then recited it.

The group were impressed and ignored it when he went back to sleep.

The students started feeling that Nian Nian’s study group was too regimental.  Some started skipping the class.

They did realise that they had to go back.

Episode 14

Zi Chen wanted to start his own business but his father was interfering.

His father said that he would stop meddling with Zi Chen business and might even invest if Zi Chen excelled at QYU.

Zi Chen was happy to accommodate his father.

He Mei wanted Zi Chen and she had been trying to pursue him through his parents.

Episode 15

Zi Chen’s mother was all for a marriage between Zi Chen and He Mei but his father was rather reluctant as Zi Chen was still too young.

His mother arranged for Zi Chen to have dinner at home, what he did not know was that He Mei was invited as well.

When he got home, he had a brief time with He Mei but opted to miss the dinner.

He then went to see Nian NIan.  He forced her to get into his car.

While driving, he got distracted by Nian Nian’s continued complaint and almost crashed into a truck but in the end, he crashed into a barrier and post instead.

While in the ambulance, he came to and told Nian NIan two things.  First, he did not cause her original accident and second he told her, “wo shi ai ni”.

When they were in the hospital, a random couple of policemen came to see NIan Nian with a laptop showing two footage from CCTV of her original accident.  It was obvious that instead of causing her accident, Zi Chen was her savior.

Poor Nian NIan was so overwhelmed with guilt with the way she had always treated Zi Chen including almost stabbing him with a fork in the university mess hall.

Xing Yu came to visit her in the hospital and told her that because Zi Chen took her to the hospital, he missed the college entrance test and that was why he also ended up at QYU.

Nian Nian was felt guiltier.  She went to visit Zi Chen who was suffering from concussion.

Nian Nian apologised for misjudging him and as well as being mean to him.

Zi Chen was so happy to see that she was well and so placid and gentle.

She ended up kissing him briefly which surprised but excited him.

He said to her that what he told her inside the ambulance was the truth and now she was his girlfriend.

Nian NIan was so embarrassed she left the room and met He Mei just outside.

He Mei was visiting Zi Chen.

Thinking that Nian Nian had come back, Zi Chen said now you agree to be my girlfriend.

He Mei quickly said sure.

Zi Chen retracted what he said immediately.

Episode 16

Zi Chen and Nian Nian relationship halted before it even started.

This was because of He Mei.

It was really Zi Chen’s fault.  He was not firm enough to tell He Mei to p****d off.  He was very accommodating towards her given that Nian Nian was next door to his hospital room and that He Mei was Nian Nian’s high school best friend.

Anyway He Mei did her worst.  She told NIan Nian that she had been seeing Zi Chen for quite some time and both families are quite happy with their relationship.

She then told Zi Chen that Nian Nian had a boyfriend already.

Epidose 17

Zi Chen can’t understand why Nian Nian seemed to be blowing hot and cold.  it looked like she accepted him when he was in the hospital and now she was behaving as he was enemy number one.

What he did not know was that He Mei told Nian Nian that Zi Chen confessed to her almost right after Nian Nian and Zi Chen shared a kiss.

Poor Xu Yi, who had just started working in a coffee shop and promptly fell in love with her handsome boss got a confession from her boss.

Unfortunately, unbeknown to Yu Xi, her new boyfriend, her boss, is a womaniser who had another woman funding his coffee shop.

Chu Xia was practically stalking Ming Yuan.

Chu Xia and Yu Xi convinced Nian Nian to have a make-over and took her shopping.

The predominantly boys in the class were blown away how pretty she was with her new dress, without her glasses and with a topknot hair-do instead of her usual pigtails.

Episode 18

Tang Yu came to visit Nian Nian at school which made Zi Chen jealous and not so secretly followed to them everywhere.

Tang Yu was so arrogant and looked down on QYU that in the end Nian Nian got annoyed with him and told him that he should leave.

Zi Chen doubled up his effort to pursue Nian Nian.

She was concerned that he had a girlfriend already and the girlfriend was her best friend in high school, Hei Mei.

Zi Chen was flabbergasted and said that He Mei was not his girlfriend.

Zi Chen was hugging Nian Nian when He Mei turned up.

Episode 19

He Mei shouted at Nian Nian.  She was upset with her because she had told Nian Nian that she liked Zi Chen.

Nian Nian tried to apologise but Zi Chen interrupted by saying that He Mei is not his girlfriend.  She might have confessed to him but he did not accept.  They had only ever met a few times with his parents.

He Mei back down for the moment but she was not giving up.  She went to Zi Chen’s mother to invite her of her dislike of Nian Nian.

Zi Chen and Nian Nian were so loved up and was witnessed by Xing Yu, who became very sad because liked Nian Nian himself.

Episode 20

Xing Yu really liked Nian Nian and asked how much Zi Chen’s feelings for her was real.  Apparently, Zi Chen only a three minutes attention span to things.

Zi Chen assured Xing Yi that he really liked Nian NIan.

Ming Yuan got into trouble at work and ended up beaten up.  He would have been worst if Nian Nian did not turn up with Xing Yu and Zi Chen.

Poor Xing Yu got badly hit in his right arm trying to protect Nian Nian.

Episode 21

The fight was heard by the dan of the school and had decided to expel Ming Yuan.

Everyone was concerned especially Nian Nian.

Ming Yuan being expelled was almost impossible to undo.

As a last recourse, Zi Chen dragged the perpetrator of the fight in front of QYU.  Zi Chen then said that Ming Yuan got caught in the fight which was really a revenge against Zi Chen having crashed to the perpetrator’s car.

Ming Yuan was safe now Zi Chen might be expelled instead.

Episode 22

Oh oh, it turned out that Nian Nian’s mother was Zi Chen’s father’s great love.

During his wedding, he left the party to go to Nian Nian’s mother to confess that he made a mistake that she was the one he truly loves.

Episode 23

Nian Nian’s class was doing a project for a competition.  The project was called Wisdom Pouch.

Zi Chen said that he would sort the finance part of it.

He took Nian Nian to meet his dad being the president of his company and had promised to sponsor the project.

The meeting between Nian Nian and Zi Chen’s father was rather eventful.   The father was stupefied to be looking at the face of his first love.  He found out that Nian Nian was the daughter of his first life in college.  The woman that he wished he married but didn’t.

Zi Chen was a little surprise but think nothing of it, until his mother called him while he was with Nian Nian.  They were going to Nian Nian’s dad’s birthday dinner.

As his mother sounded so distraught, he went home to her instead.

At home, his mother showed him documents from a private investigator.  She then showed Zi Chen a well-thumbed photograph of Nian Nian’s mother that was his father’s treasured possession which he would look at now and again and cry.

The mother then made Zi Chen to break it up with Nian Nian because she could be his sister.

Zi Chen said he was going to ask his father but his mother prevented him because all hell might break loose and she might lose her family, her husband, her house.

Zi Chen was gutted and went drinking.

Episode 24

He Mei rescued him from the bar and took him to her place, in her bed and then she took a selfie with him and sent it to Nian Nian.

Nian Nian was, of course, got upset but she gave Zi Chen a chance to explain himself.

Without any preamble, he said that it was real.  Again, Nian Nian said to explain it and he was resolute!  He said it was real.

Nian Nian then said that they should break up.

Zi Chen agreed and they walked away from each other with tears in their eyes.

Zi Chen was getting drunk everyday and He Mei was there to tend to him.

His mother told He Mei that Nian Nian and Zi Chen had broken up.

Now Zi Chen’s mother and He Mei had plotted to get Zi Chen well and truly.

He Mei, because an exchange student and now going at QYU.

Episode 25

Yu Xi met some girls who had told her that they were current girlfriends of her boyfriend.  As she would not readily believe them, she went to the coffee shop where her boyfriend was the owner.  She found him chatting up another girl.  Then she knew and was gutted.

Nian Nian started a fundraising for Ming Yan.  She was hoping to raise 80K to pay off his debt at the garage where he worked.

Meanwhile, Chu Xia met her mother, who came to see her at the university.

Episode 26

Nian Nian with Chu Xia and Xing Yu gave the money from the fundraising to Miny Yan, who refused the money point blank as he said he was not some charity case.

Chu Xia was really upset that her mother abandoned her as a little girl.  Her father used to give her money but not much else.  She grew up so lonely.

Chu Xia, through the behest of Nian Nian and Yu Xi, started talking to her mother.  She asked for 80K and paid off Ming Yan’s debt at the garage.

Episode 27

Mr Jiang, Nian NIan’s class’s homeroom teacher went on a blind date with his online girlfriend.  What he did not know was that the online girlfriend was the beautiful Dr Jin.

When Dr Jin saw him waiting with a rose, she changed her mind and pretended that she was just passing by.

Poor Dr Jin waited for three hours by the bridge.

Zi Chen and Min Yan went for a drink and they got talking about Chu Xia.

Zi Chen asked Min Yan that he must know that Chu Xia has got a crush on him and he can’t be ignoring the fact.

Min Yan admitted that he had noticed it.

Zi Chen’s mother came to see Nian Nian to warned her not to have any romantic feelings with Zi Chen because he was her biological brother.

Nian Nian was shocked and confused.  The nasty He Mei was there to enlighten her about the so-called facts.

He Mei said that Zi Chen’s father was Nian Nian’s boyfriend but continued to have an affair with the father and Nian Nian was the product of the affair.

Episode 28

Zi Chen’s father finally got back from his business trip and asked his wife to get Zi Chen to share family dinner with them.

During the dinner, Zi Chen could not help taking out his frustrations with his father, who was talking about who a good and intelligent girl Nian Nian was.

Zi Chen can’t take it anymore and blurted that Nian Nian was his sister, her father’s biological father.

His father went ballistic and told him in no uncertain manner that Nian Nian was not his daughter.  He was in a middle of his angry tirade when Zi Chen hugged him happily and thank him profusely and then he left.

He went immediately to Nian Nian house and was just happy to see her drawing her curtains.

Nian Nian was at home because she went to confront her father about the matter of her parenthood.

Her father told her that he has her biological father but he would not say anymore as he was still upset with the memory.

Zi Chen’s father and he were best friends in college, QYU,  they both fell for the beautiful girl Tang Xiao Ru  The more gregarious Gu got the girl at first but he had to give her up because he had to make a business marriage as his family was going bankrupt.

Nian Nian was upset with her father as he refused to elaborate on her mother’s cause of death.

Nian Nian was talking to Yu Xi and Chu Xia when they heard someone calling for Nian Nian.

It was Zi Chen with a huge bunch of roses.

Episode 29

Nian Nian listened to Zi Chen explanations about his cold treatment of her.  He said that he had cleared the issue of their being siblings with his father.

Zi Chen asked that they should get back together as he loves her.

Nian Nian said she could not be in any relationship at the moment as she just want to be with her father for now.  Also Zi Chen has He Mei.

Zi Chen said that he had only a pretend relationship with He Mei.

Nian Nian scolded Zi Chen.  She said that he might have faked it but He Mei really loves him.

Zi Chen parents are having marital problems.

His mother found his father crying over Nian Nian’s mother’s photograph.  She was heartbroken and very annoyed that she packed her bag and left the house.

He Mei was up to more mischief.  She told the school paparazzi that Nian Nian was being paid to be a monitor.  Everything that Nian Nian was doing for her classmates has a monetary value.

Episode 30

The news about Nian Nian being paid spread like wildfire and her classmates were not happy about it.  They felt let down.

Hu Mei made it worst by insulting Nian Nian as a money-grabbing girl.

Zi Chen was annoyed with Hu Mei but she threatened him with her father’s investment.

Nian Nian had decided to do away with her contract with the school. In front of her classmates, she ripped the contract which made them all happy.

Zi Chen was doing everything to reconcile her parents.  His mother asked him to give her time to think things through.

Episode 31

Zi Chen’s father went to ask his wife to return to their house but she refused and hinted she might want a divorce despite hearing the explanation why he was cried while looking at his ex-girlfriend’s photo.

He Mei told Nian Nian that Zi Chen’s father had a connection to her mother’s accident.

Nian Nian went home immediately to confront her father, who finally confessed the truth.

He said that he had let the past to be the past and does not blame his old friend for Nian Nian’s mother’s accident.

He Mei was harrassed by Chu Xia and Yu Ki into living the school all together but she warned Zi Chen that she would not allow him to be happy with Nian Nian.

Nian Nian and Zi Chen had a heart to heart.  She told him that she cannot afford to lose him again.

Episode 32

Nian Nian and her classmates went to a beach break as a treat for improved scholastic of QYU.

Nian Nian and Zi Chen had time to iron out all the kink in their relationship but despite their renewed good vibes, it might not last long as Zi Chen’s father was having problem with his business as Hu Mei’s father had threatened to pull out from their deal for humiliating his adored daughter.

The students were trying to match up Dr Jin and Prof Jiang.

Episdoe 33

Dr Jin and Prof Jiang had found out that they were each other online friend.

Nian NIan’s father formally met Zi Chen as Nian Nian’s boyfriend.

Zi Chen’s mother was beginning to thaw to the idea that Nian Nian might become her daughter in law.  She even told He Mei that as much as she would like her to be her daughter in law, you just can’f force love.

He Mei though just won’t give up.  Despite going back to her original school, she still dropped by at QYU to create mayhem.  She told Nian Nian that Zi Chen’ father will go bankrupt because she had asked her father to stop his investment to a huge project with Zi Chen’s dad.

Episode 34

Zi Chen’s father’s business was going down fast.  To minimize damage to his wife and Zi Chen, he asked his wife for divorce.  Not knowing the real reason for the divorce, the hurt wife signed the divorce paper.

Zi Chen got a call from the man he had trouble with at the garage where Ming Yuan used to work.  The man said that they have got Nian Nian.  To ransom her, they need 3Million.

Zi Chen went to his mother for who just found out about the real reason for the divorce.

He told Zi Chen that money was tight and they may go bankrupt.  But Zi Chen begged his mother who called the company secretary to release some funds.

With the money, he went to meet the kidnappers.

Meanwhile, Prof Jiang and the classmates got to find out about the kidnapping and were obviously worried.  They were just about to go follow Zi Chen when a happy Nian Nian came bounding in.

“Ahhh weren’t you kidnapped?”

Zi Chen was face to face with the mastermind of the pseudo-kidnapping.

It was He Mei.

Episode 35

Zi Chen found out that it was He Mei who masterminded everything.  She paid the kidnappers 100K, but in the end, the men decided that the 3 Million ransom was so much better and so they beat Zi Chen on the head with a baseball bat causing him to faint.  They also hit He Mei who stopped them further hurting Zi Chen.

Prof Jiang, the Remarkables,  Xing Yu and Nian Nian came to the rescue.

Poor Zi Chen was really in a pretty bad way.

The kidnappers were later apprehended together with He Mei.

Zi Chen’s mother at first blamed Nian Nian for what happened to her son by Xing Yu disabused her of that notion.

He said that He Mei was the one who caused the problem.

Zi Chen was treated by the doctors but he was in a coma.

Episode 36

Zi Chen remained in a coma for half a month.

When he woke up, he can’t remember Nian Nian.  He can’t believe that he would have been attracted to her.  Not her sort.

Nian Nian tried everything to make him remember.  She reenacted everything that they did or having been involved together, including the accident on the road which she blamed him for when they first met.

Zi Chen just did not remember anything, in fact, he felt guilty about Xing Yu, who had noticed had feelings for Nian Nian.  He told his mother that he wanted to go back to America.

His mother teased him.  She said that one day he will remember and hoped he won’t blame her for anything and that Nian Nian had been so very good to him, caring for him while he was in a coma.

Nian Nian was beginning to lose hope and was sitting by the bridge by the lake when Zi Chen wandered in.

He told her that he was going back to America.

Nian Nian did not say much but jumped into the lake.

Zi Chen dove in after her and rescued her into the bank. Still, he cannot remember anything that is until he was walking away, leaving Nian Nian looking alone and distraught by the lake.

He suddenly had an excruciating headache and started seeing quick images of his romance with Nian Nian.

He quickly went back to where Nian Nian was and helped her get up from where she was slumped and into his arms.

They reconciled.

The lovely Xing Yu was on his way of becoming a big star in the music business.

Prof Jiang and Dr Jin had registered their marriage and now expecting a baby.

The End.

I think the reason why this drama did not catch a wider audience was that the lead girl has not much exciting things happening to her.

He Mei got all the juicy bits and so much airtime and she got the best clothes and accessories.

He Mei was always there, and no matter how evil she becomes, both Nian Nian and Zi Chen indulged her; thus taking a huge shine off the developing chemistry of the leads.