Take My Brother Away Episode 8 Recap
> Take My Brother Away Recap
As midterm exams approach, teachers at a local middle school are motivated by the principal to improve student performance. Meanwhile, Shi Miao diligently studies math, only to be disturbed by her brother Shi Fen loudly playing video games, leading her to beat him up in frustration. The next day, Shi Fen arrives late to school, but he is not alone. To everyone's shock, the school's top student, You Le, is also late.
Swarmed by classmates asking for exam tips, You Le confides in Shi Fen about the immense pressure she feels to always be number one. To help her relax, Shi Fen makes a bet with her: if he can improve his rank by five places in the midterms, she must go to the beach with him. If he fails, he will stay fifty meters away from her at all times.
You Le agrees, and Shi Fen immediately begins to study with intense focus, much to the surprise of his teachers who are encouraged to see him and his friend Zhen Kaixin studying so diligently. At the same time, Shi Miao's friend, Miao Miaomiao, loses her voice after eating spicy hot pot for a week.
Desperate because her new career as an online voice actor is at risk, she convinces Shi Miao to do a voice-over for her in exchange for a hot pot meal. Shi Miao struggles until she channels her rage towards her brother, producing a perfect recording. The voice-over becomes an online sensation, and Shi Miao becomes obsessed with her new hobby, practicing everywhere and completely neglecting her studies.
This role reversal, with the studious Shi Miao now playing around while the slacker Shi Fen studies, is noted by their father, who finds the scene amusing. Elsewhere in the class, Wan Sui is giddy about a text message he received from a supposed movie star who was lost and needed money. Shi Fen, realizing it's a scam, throws Wan Sui's phone out the window in frustration.
A security guard finds the phone but denies seeing it when a frantic Wan Sui comes looking for it. During the exams, Shi Fen is ecstatic to find a major question on the test that You Le had previously helped him with. After the exam, he confidently compares answers with her and, finding only one difference, assumes he has outperformed her.
He brazenly announces his plans to pick her up for their beach date on a peddler's tricycle, embarrassing You Le and causing an uproar in the class, while another student, Wang Keke, cries over her poor performance. Shi Miao remains entirely unconcerned with her results, focused only on voice acting, which worries Miao Miaomiao. Back home, Shi Fen researches fun, free activities for his beach date.
Shi Miao, seeing him, shyly assumes the trip is for her and is disappointed to learn the truth. When Shi Fen mocks her attempts at a male voice for a recording, she attacks him again. Through this experience, Shi Fen has a realization: the cost of doing something with effort is about the same as doing it lazily, and the resulting sense of accomplishment makes the hard work worthwhile. He concludes that people avoid trying not because of laziness, but because they fear that even with effort, they might still fail.
