Tender Light Episode 4 Recap, Plot

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Zhou Luo likes morning runs, and so does Lin Fanglu. They share the same hobby, but their paths are completely opposite. For some time now, Lin Fanglu has been deliberately paying attention to Zhou Luo's words and actions, trying to find flaws to confirm his inner suspicions. However, Zhou Luo has been too calm, as if the fire had nothing to do with him, and what he ignited was not a car, but just a faint hope in someone's heart.

Although Zhou Luo has been back in Qingshui Town for two months, he still hasn't adapted to the summer heat. It's like the gossiping mouths outside the door, making him restless. When Lin Guixiang goes out on weekdays, Zhou Luo stays by the small store with his walkman. After Lin Guixiang returns, he can't wait to escape this place. A group of people went to the library to study. Zhang Qingli was absent-minded, her gaze occasionally drifting towards Zhou Luo.

In the bloom of youth, she once wanted to confess her feelings, but hesitated at the crucial moment. For several days in a row, Zhou Luo was in a low mood and couldn't concentrate on studying. By chance, he found a rare poetry collection on the bookshelf that Nan Ya had once borrowed.

He casually flipped open a page and was instantly drawn in by the licentious and unrestrained words, making his mouth dry and his heart both astonished and excited. Zhang Qingli's sudden appearance startled Zhou Luo wide awake. He quickly closed the poetry collection, hid it under his jacket, and then, when no one was looking, slipped it into a thick book.

After returning home, Zhou Luo lay panting on the mat, feeling the cool breeze from the ceiling fan, his thoughts drifting into the clouds. He couldn't understand why Nan Ya would enjoy reading erotic poems. Afterwards, Zhou Luo and his friends agreed to go hiking and swimming in the suburbs.

A few teenagers, boys and girls, laughed and played with each other, rushing towards the stream in their thin clothes and not stopping until they had had their fill of fun. Zhou Luo got out of the water early and lay half-reclining on a stream rock, feigning sleep. In a daze, he heard the sound of feet stepping on stones, and in his mind's eye appeared the Nan Ya he longed for day and night.

Confused by passion, he took the initiative to kiss the other person. However, Zhang Qingli had not yet recovered from the brief touch, while Zhou Luo was already wide awake from his dream. He immediately got up and left without the slightest hesitation. When the exam results were announced this time, Liu Xun was completely surpassed by Zhou Luo again, feeling unwilling.

As the summer vacation approached, Zhou Luo delivered something for Lin Guixiang to Nan Ya, but through the window, he saw Jiang Zhi making physical advances towards Nan Ya, intending to do something improper. Zhou Luo rushed in in time to interrupt Jiang Zhi's subsequent actions and warned him. Jiang Zhi had no choice but to leave indignantly.

Nan Ya noticed that Zhou Luo's clothes were coming undone and asked him to take them off so she could sew a few stitches. Since there were no suitable men's clothes in the store, Zhou Luo could only cover his bare upper body with a scarf. Fearing that his classmates outside might notice, he turned and entered the partitioned room where Nan Ya was. The partitioned room was less than two square meters, narrow and stuffy.

Nan Ya wore a proper long dress, sitting focused at the sewing machine. Sunlight slanted in through the window, making Nan Ya's cheeks slightly red, and sweat beads were fine and dense on her collarbone. Looking at her made him feel hot all over, and his mind wandered. But in the next second, Nan Ya's gaze, full of desire, met Zhou Luo's head-on.

Zhou Luo felt as if he had been hit over the head, his self-esteem shattered into pieces, feeling ashamed and utterly mortified. But adolescence is a time of pride. Shame quickly turned into anger, and accompanied by malicious thoughts, he rapidly transformed it into harsh and insulting words, accusing Nan Ya of being as disreputable as the rumors claimed, and secretly reading vulgar erotic poems. As soon as he said this, Nan Ya's eyes gradually turned cold.

She told him to get out and stated directly that she would never say another word to him from then on. Zhou Luo then rushed out the door and walked wildly into the stream to vent his anger. --- Since then, Zhou Luo did not see Nan Ya for many days. He was absent-minded in class and felt anxious after class.

To get answers and guidance, Zhou Luo personally went to see his former teacher and confessed that he had been ordered to drop out of school for assaulting a teacher. Teacher Zheng believed Zhou Luo was a good child and advised him not to look at these poems in a one-sided way, because human life is full of passion, desires (lit. eating and drinking, men and women), and trivial matters.

Some things can be pursued as a lifelong career, while others are the meaning of their existence. At Teacher Zheng's recommendation, Zhou Luo watched the movie "Dead Poets Society" and was deeply inspired by it, gradually realizing his own narrow-mindedness and one-sided view. Finally, Zhou Luo caught butterflies and waited on the path Nan Ya had to take. When Nan Ya returned from the hospital with her daughter Wan Wan, he bravely apologized for what happened before.

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