Please Classmate Episode 3 Recap
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On the first day of school, Director Ma greeted the academic students, including Yuan Caixi, and reminded them of the "crucial time" as PE students joined their class. He urged them to be role models and not be misled by Li He. Meanwhile, Li He and his friends, including Jiang Yuan and Yun Xiang, were already in the classroom playing a game. Jiang Yuan, who was playing a game called "Long is missing," tried to catch up.
When Miss Luo started class, most students were tired. Jiang Yuan put on an eye mask with eyes drawn on it and fell asleep. Miss Luo easily spotted him. The class burst into laughter as she walked over and removed his eye mask. Startled, Jiang Yuan stood up, mistakenly thinking Miss Luo had asked him a question, and blurted out "A. A. C. B. D. D."
Miss Luo commented on his creative eye mask and asked if he learned it from Mr. Bai, to which Jiang Yuan quickly denied and apologized. Miss Luo warned that if he dared to sleep in class again, he would be banned from training for two days. Jiang Yuan immediately promised to correct his behavior. After class, Miss Luo asked Yuan Caixi to come to the office to collect some heavy test papers and requested a PE student to help.
Li He initially showed no interest but quickly volunteered when he saw Ning Zeyu getting up to go. As they walked, Li He caught up to Yuan Caixi, suggesting they co-exist peacefully for their final year of high school. Yuan Caixi warned him that she wouldn't offend him if he didn't provoke her, but if he insisted, neither of them would have an easy time. Li He, undeterred, blocked her path and dared her to do something.
Yuan Caixi turned, and her hair whipped across his face as she walked away. Meanwhile, as Ning Zeyu was walking towards the door, a girl named Huang Yuan accidentally stumbled and fell into him. While their classmates chuckled, Huang Yuan, a bit flustered, explained that she usually had excellent balance from regular exercise but felt nervous and her heart raced when she saw Ning Zeyu.
Ning Zeyu calmly suggested her fast heart rate might be due to a lack of sleep and advised her to get more rest for a clearer mind. Jiang Yuan and Yun Xiang, who were looking at something amusing on a phone, burst into laughter. Annoyed, Huang Yuan confronted them, calling them "smelly sneakers." Jiang Yuan and Yun Xiang were angered by the insult. Huang Yuan then grabbed Yun Xiang’s shoe and threw it into a trash can.
Upon returning, Li He and Yuan Caixi found a crowd gathered. When Li He learned about Yun Xiang’s shoe, he immediately stepped forward to defend his friend. Pan Hao, however, stood up for Huang Yuan, arguing that the shoes were smelly and shouldn't be in the classroom, implying they belonged in the trash. Li He became furious and almost came to blows with Pan Hao. To prevent a major fight, Ning Zeyu quickly retrieved Yun Xiang's shoe from the trash.
Although the immediate conflict seemed resolved, Li He insisted that Huang Yuan apologize for her actions. Yuan Caixi also agreed that Huang Yuan was in the wrong and should apologize. After Huang Yuan begrudgingly said "sorry," Yuan Caixi then turned to Li He, reminding him that he also needed to apologize for kicking the trash can. Li He apologized.
To prevent similar incidents, Yuan Caixi suggested that Li He and his friends give their athletic shoes to her for safekeeping, explaining that it would protect them from being damaged or dirtied by others in the busy classroom. Later, after Yuan Caixi had collected the shoes and placed them on a cabinet, Pan Hao secretly returned and hid them.
When Li He and his friends came back from their running exercise and discovered their shoes were missing, Pan Hao started making sarcastic remarks, implying that "trash belongs in the trash can" and was likely in the "refuse storage area." Misunderstanding Pan Hao’s taunt, Li He and his friends rushed to the garbage station to search.
While they were frantically sifting through trash, Pan Hao confronted Yuan Caixi again, questioning her concern for the PE students given her initial opposition to the class merger. Yuan Caixi retorted that she despised those who made sneak attacks from behind, like him.
Yuan Caixi, having interpreted Pan Hao’s words differently than Li He, realized that Pan Hao meant the PE students and their belongings didn’t belong in the North Campus, suggesting their shoes would be in their old South Campus classroom. She and Ning Zeyu went to the South Campus and successfully retrieved all the shoes. They returned to Li He and his friends, who were still at the garbage station, presenting the found shoes.
Ning Zeyu explained that Pan Hao had deliberately moved the shoes to their old classroom, believing that "PE students’ things should be at the place of them," and had intended for them to disappear along with the South Campus. Li He then passionately explained to everyone that these shoes were not just ordinary items but held deep personal significance and memories, like medals, far more precious than any trophy.
He revealed his own running shoes were worn when he achieved his first championship and broke a record. Jiang Yuan's fluorescent green shoes symbolized his first long-distance running victory, while Lin Chuan's were his lucky charm, essential for his best performance. Most poignantly, Yun Xiang's white sneakers were a precious gift from his deceased grandmother after his first competition win, a treasure they never dared to touch.
He then apologized to Yuan Caixi for his earlier misunderstanding and thanked both her and Ning Zeyu for their help. Yuan Caixi also apologized for failing in her duty to safeguard their shoes. Later that day, while Li He was at a restaurant with his friends, he went to the restroom and saw Yuan Caixi exiting a supermarket with her younger brother, Yuan Haoxi, appearing to be very close.
The next morning, he saw them again, and also witnessed several girls giving Yuan Haoxi gifts and love letters, which the boy politely declined, saying they should focus on their studies. Misinterpreting the situation, Li He assumed that Yuan Caixi was dating Yuan Haoxi, and that Yuan Haoxi was a "bad guy" two-timing her, and that Yuan Caixi, as the "monitor," was "stupid" for not realizing.
In class, Li He repeatedly tried to talk to Yuan Caixi, eventually telling her directly that she was a student who should focus on her studies and that she shouldn't be "cheated by the bad guy," implying her "poor eyesight" in choosing a partner. Yuan Caixi, completely confused, thought he was being absurd. During PE class, Yuan Caixi, who was on her period and feeling unwell, fainted while attempting stretches. She was taken to the infirmary.
Ning Zeyu learned from the nurse that Yuan Caixi was suffering from hypoglycemia in addition to her period. Li He, still believing his earlier assumptions, insisted on staying to tell Yuan Caixi "something very important." Ning Zeyu tried to send him away, arguing that Li He was partly responsible for her fainting and that his presence would only upset her further.
Despite Ning Zeyu's attempts to relay the message, Li He insisted it had to be told to Yuan Caixi directly. When Yuan Caixi woke up, Li He, after making her some brown sugar water and bandaging her "small arm," again launched into his misguided lecture. He accused her of not focusing on her studies and being "cheated by a big bad guy."
He recounted seeing her with Yuan Haoxi that morning and then Yuan Haoxi receiving gifts and letters from other girls. Li He offered to "teach him a lesson" if Yuan Caixi couldn't accept it. At that moment, Yuan Haoxi rushed into the infirmary, calling out "Sister, are you okay?" Li He was stunned, finally realizing that Yuan Haoxi was Yuan Caixi’s younger brother.
Embarrassed, Li He quickly backtracked, awkwardly praising Yuan Haoxi and retracting his "bad guy" comments, realizing his grave misunderstanding. He then tried to make amends by offering to tie Yuan Caixi's shoelaces. Later, he even tried to get Yuan Caixi's QQ number under the pretense of "study." In a separate conversation, Miss Luo and Mr. Bai spoke on the phone, with Mr. Bai affectionately calling Miss Luo 'Darling'while joking about his students causing drama in her class.
He defended his "free-spirited" PE students, who were now "caged" in the academic class, and asked Miss Luo to go easy on their punishments. Miss Luo, however, turned the tables, blaming Mr. Bai for his students' poor physical health (as their PE coach), which led to one fainting. She chastised him for not making his "academic class" students exercise enough, scoffing at his notion that it was "no big deal." Mr. Bai tried to calm her down, dismissing his own rough demeanor as typical of a sports coach, but Miss Luo was clearly not appeased by his excuses.
