Resumen del episodio 7 de Glaze of Love
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In the classroom, Mr. Yue turned to Xu Xiao to confirm the new grouping. Xu Xiao remained silent, offering no objection to Zhao Xiaocen’s sudden request to be his partner. Taking his silence as agreement, Mr. Yue finalized the teams and moved on with the lesson. However, the atmosphere turned cold as soon as class ended. Yan Xue, who had intended to pair Lin Yuexin with Xu Xiao, was livid.
She confronted Xiaocen, accusing her of being two-faced and playing games after they had all previously agreed to help Yuexin. Overwhelmed and unable to find the words to explain her impulsive decision, a guilt-ridden Xiaocen could only head home in silence. The tension followed them back to the dormitory. Yan Xue continued to vent her frustrations, feeling that Xiaocen had betrayed their friendship.
Lin Yuexin, ever the peacemaker, tried to calm her down by suggesting that Xiaocen might have simply wanted to focus on her studies. This only made Yan Xue angrier, as she felt her efforts to stand up for her friend were being dismissed as petty bullying. Meanwhile, Xiaocen was back at her own place, unable to sleep.
She confessed her feelings to her stuffed rabbit, admitting that while she felt terrible about hurting Yuexin, she was even more terrified of losing Xu Xiao as a friend. Her spiraling thoughts were interrupted by a phone call from Xu Xiao, asking to meet her. They met at Ceramic Art Avenue, where Xu Xiao apologized for his previous harsh attitude. He admitted he was surprised that she had volunteered to team up with him.
Xiaocen took the opportunity to be honest, explaining that since he was the first friend she made in Jingdezhen, she cherished their bond deeply. She confessed that she had been afraid he would only ever speak to her about work, so she had braced herself and raised her hand just to ensure they stayed connected.
As they walked through the market, Xu Xiao dropped a startling revelation: the vendor who had tried to trick her into buying fake porcelain shards a few days prior was actually his father, Xu Jinsong. The following day, Mr. Yue took the students to the university’s graduate research lab for a hands-on session. He explained that traditional ceramic making involved at least seventy-two intricate steps.
The students began with throwing the clay, then moved on to painting patterns and applying glaze. Finally, their pieces were placed into a traditional wood-fired kiln, a process that required thirty hours of constant monitoring by a kiln master to maintain the perfect temperature. Reflecting on the process in her diary, Xiaocen felt a sense of fulfillment, realizing that every step in pottery was as indispensable as the steps one takes in life.
A few days later, the class gathered to review their finished works. Mr. Yue praised several pieces, including the vase made by Xu Xiao and Xiaocen, noting the dedication evident in their craftsmanship. However, the session was violently interrupted when Mr. Zhang and his son barged into the lab. They were the same pair who had previously confronted Xu Xiao at the antique shop.
The son was still furious, claiming that after Xu Xiao had dismissed their blue-and-white porcelain bowl as a fake, they had sought a second opinion from a professional agency that declared the base to be a genuine piece from the Chenghua reign. Mr. Yue stepped in to mediate and carefully examined the remaining shard of the bowl.
He noted that while the base appeared to be authentic, the piece was likely a "joined" forgery—a deceptive technique where an old base is attached to a newly fired body. The explanation did nothing to soothe the elderly Mr. Zhang, who became hysterical. In a fit of rage, he began smashing the students' finished works on the table, shouting that Xu Xiao's appraisal had cost him 300,000 yuan.
The chaos only ended when the old man collapsed from the stress and had to be rushed to the hospital. The incident caused a scandal at the university. The principal expressed concern that students giving professional-level appraisals was damaging the school’s reputation, while Mr. Yue argued that punishing Xu Xiao would be an indirect admission that the boy was wrong. Ultimately, the administration decided to withhold any formal punishment for the time being but insisted on notifying Xu Xiao’s parents.
The other students were heartbroken over their destroyed projects, but Lin Yuexin tried to lift their spirits by offering to treat everyone to dinner. When Xu Xiao passed by and apologized for the trouble, the class monitor invited him to join them, but Xu Xiao quietly declined. Back at his house, Xu Xiao overheard his mother arguing with his stepfather.
She was terrified that he was following in the footsteps of his biological father, Xu Jinsong, whose obsession with the antique trade had once left the family buried in debt. She lamented that the industry was "poisonous" and feared for her son’s future. Unable to face them, Xu Xiao retreated to his room in silence. The situation escalated the next morning when Mr. Zhang and his son began livestreaming a protest outside the university gates.
They publicly branded Xu Jinsong a fraud and accused Xu Xiao of being a hack who ruined precious relics. Faced with the mounting public pressure, Xu Xiao's stepfather offered to pay 300,000 yuan to settle the matter quietly. However, Xu Xiao’s mother had a different condition: she demanded that Xu Xiao take a leave of absence and abandon his studies entirely to get away from the world of ceramics. Standing his ground, Xu Xiao refused to apologize for being right and made it clear he would not leave school.
