Love is Sweet Episode 14 Recap
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Xu Li watched as Jiang Jun arrived with Yuan Shuai and quickly pulled Jiang Jun aside. Li Xiaochuan and Yuan Shuai, observing the theatrical-looking exchange between Jiang Jun and Xu Li through the window, were utterly baffled. When the two returned, the conversation finally shifted back to Li Xiaochuan’s dating app. While Jiang Jun found his imaginative descriptions amusing, Yuan Shuai was visibly dismissive.
It wasn’t until Li Xiaochuan mentioned the substantial funding required that Yuan Shuai saw through his cousin’s true intentions. As an investment banker, Yuan Shuai proposed taking everyone to a mysterious location—a bar. There, Yuan Shuai deliberately set up a social scenario, using Jiang Jun as an example to demonstrate how real-life bar interactions couldn’t be quantified or calculated by a dating platform.
He bluntly pointed out Li Xiaochuan’s lack of social and romantic experience, criticizing him for reducing love to mere data while ignoring the unpredictable human elements. Under his cousin’s harsh critique, Li Xiaochuan stormed off in anger. When Xu Li found Li Xiaochuan sitting outside the bar, he was utterly dejected. Seeing his disappointment, Xu Li struggled to find the right words to comfort him and instead offered her entire savings to support his project.
Touched by her small gesture, Li Xiaochuan felt a surge of warmth and instinctively grabbed Xu Li’s ice-cold hands, tucking them into his warm pockets. Once again, Xu Li’s heart raced at his seemingly casual act of kindness. As Jiang Jun and Yuan Shuai strolled together, she accused him of dismissing Li Xiaochuan’s project too quickly, believing his judgment of the person had clouded his view of the idea.
But Yuan Shuai countered that he knew his cousin’s lack of understanding about human love all too well. He also pointed out that Jiang Jun was blindly supportive without truly grasping the nature of Li Xiaochuan’s "Westworld" app—and that she herself had no profound insight into love either. After lecturing her, Yuan Shuai admitted that while he understood love, he had no romantic experience.
When Jiang Jun pressed him on why he hadn’t pursued love, he confessed to having a crush. Startled, Jiang Jun couldn’t resist probing further. Yuan Shuai met her gaze and said he feared that confessing would ruin their friendship. Though both pretended not to understand the deeper meaning, the unspoken tension lingered. Under Yuan Shuai’s direct stare, Jiang Jun grew flustered and quickly changed the subject, fleeing like a startled rabbit.
Left with no choice, Yuan Shuai swallowed the words he longed to say. Thinking of Li Xiaochuan’s despondent expression, Xu Li felt uneasy. Remembering Jiang Jun’s mention of "Professor Du," she saw a glimmer of hope and rushed to Jiang Jun’s place, asking her to contact Du Lei to evaluate Li Xiaochuan’s "Westworld" project. Du Lei agreed without hesitation when Jiang Jun called. After receiving the app link, he studied it with keen interest.
Meanwhile, Yuan Shuai, recalling Jiang Jun’s accusation that he was "judging the person, not the project," reluctantly opened the app to review its strengths and weaknesses. Coincidentally, Du Lei was doing the same. Unbeknownst to each other, the two investment experts noted identical flaws. Jiang Jun, reflecting on Yuan Shuai’s words, decided to try the app herself.
In a twist of fate, all three activated the matching feature—only for Jiang Jun and Du Lei to fail while she matched perfectly with Yuan Shuai. Separated by just a wall, the two reunited in the app’s chatroom, bantering effortlessly. Yuan Shuai found himself intrigued by the "perfect match" on the other side. The next day, Du Lei met Li Xiaochuan at a café to discuss the project.
After learning that Li Xiaochuan had no romantic experience, Du Lei pinpointed the app’s flaw: overly data-driven and idealized algorithms. Rejected again, Li Xiaochuan fell into deep thought, grappling with his lack of real-world social experience. At the office, Jiang Jun received an ad Xu Li had made for Li Xiaochuan and was about to reply when Yuan Shuai appeared. Though inwardly curious, he feigned indifference and subtly probed Jiang Jun about the app.
Their usual bickering resumed—until an app notification reminded them to "maintain their connection." Jiang Jun asked if Yuan Shuai had confessed his crush, while he inquired if she’d met anyone special. Their playful rivalry spilled into the digital world, proving just how entangled their fates were. Li Xiaochuan visited the convenience store and asked Xu Li, an amateur romance novelist, about love.
Xu Li waxed poetic about love’s magic, but Li Xiaochuan kept linking it to technology and data, countering her points. Spurred by Du Lei’s critique, he was desperate to refine the app’s algorithm. Just then, Xu Li’s blind box order arrived. Though baffled by the randomness, Li Xiaochuan opened them under Xu Li’s urging. After several disappointing figurines, he finally found one he adored—and suddenly understood Xu Li’s earlier words. Inspired, he called Du Lei with a breakthrough idea.
Hearing Du Lei’s approval and commitment to invest, Li Xiaochuan rushed back to the store to share the news. Overwhelmed with joy, Xu Li hugged him tightly. As he held her, a strange new feeling stirred in his chest. At Xu Li’s suggestion, he decided to treat Jiang Jun and her to dinner. When Jiang Jun received Xu Li’s text, she gazed thoughtfully out the window.
Yuan Shuai approached, mentioning he might work late and asking her to walk his dog. When she heard his door passcode was 0905, she froze—it was the date he’d "eliminated" her years ago. But Yuan Shuai denied that, explaining after much teasing that it was the day they reunited. Stunned, Jiang Jun realized the deeper meaning behind the code and stood there, lost in thought. . .
