The Love Equations Episode 24 Recap
> The Love Equations Recap
After Zhao Fanzhou's mother and Zhou Xiao finished their takeout, they planned to pack the leftovers to give to the stray dogs downstairs. Unexpectedly, Zhao Fanzhou suddenly came to the hospital. Zhao Fanzhou's mother gave the remaining food to Zhao Fanzhou to eat. Zhou Xiao saw this and wanted to say something but held back.
Zhao Fanzhou's mother noticed that the two of them weren't as close as before, so she deliberately asked Zhou Xiao to feed Zhao Fanzhou fruit and also asked Zhou Xiao to help her correct Zhao Fanzhou's habit of not eating fruit. To prevent Zhao Fanzhou's mother from noticing the subtle awkwardness between them, Zhou Xiao still fed Zhao Fanzhou fruit.
Because Zhou Xiao still had a splinter in her hand that hadn't been dealt with, it hurt a little, so Zhao Fanzhou's mother asked Zhao Fanzhou to help take a look. Zhao Fanzhou carefully helped Zhou Xiao check it. At the same time, Zhao Fanzhou's mother enthusiastically asked Zhou Xiao to accompany her for meals, but the replies she got were always that Zhou Xiao didn't have time to accompany her.
To avoid more lies and awkwardness, Zhao Fanzhou had to confess to his mother the fact that they had broken up. Just as she was about to ask what exactly had happened between the two of them, Zhou Xiao suddenly left the ward. Zhou Xiao walked and cried, getting lost in the hospital corridor. She called Cai Yasi downstairs to come up and pick her up. The two happened to meet in the elevator.
Just then, Zhao Fanzhou also chased after them with the backpack Zhou Xiao had left behind. Cai Yasi was worried Zhou Xiao would be upset seeing Zhao Fanzhou, so he blocked her view. The elevator doors slowly closed. Zhou Xiao couldn't take it anymore, she squatted down in the elevator and burst into tears. As Zhao Fanzhou looked at the tightly closed and descending elevator doors, it was as if all their past sweet memories were interrupted.
Zhou Xiao told herself that in certain moments, the pain was truly unbearable. Zhao Fanzhou's mother blamed their breakup on herself having a mental illness, feeling she was the culprit. However, Zhao Fanzhou comforted his mother, saying their breakup was his own problem. Due to the stimulus of the breakup incident, Zhao Fanzhou's mother's emotions went out of control again.
A doctor came to the room to check her condition and told Zhao Fanzhou and his father to be prepared for a relapse, suggesting they go back to a Beijing hospital for treatment and be mentally prepared for the long term. To comfort Zhou Xiao, Cai Yasi insisted on dragging her to play go-karts to vent her emotions. Unexpectedly, the go-kart place was closed.
Zhou Xiao, who had just returned from the restroom, also unexpectedly overheard Cai Yasi telling the go-kart owner that he liked her very much. For a moment, she was a little distracted. During their break after playing, Zhou Xiao suddenly asked Cai Yasi if he liked her and told Cai Yasi that if he liked her, he must tell her so she could properly reject him.
Hearing this, Cai Yasi lied to Zhou Xiao, saying he didn't like her, because he didn't want their relationship, which had been close since childhood, to suddenly become too awkward. But in his heart, Cai Yasi had long decided he could wait for the day Zhou Xiao would like him, because right now he didn't want to make Zhou Xiao feel troubled in her love life again.
Due to his mother's illness, Zhao Fanzhou was worried his father wouldn't be able to take good care of her, so he decided to go to school to apply for a leave of absence. While cleaning and messing around in the library, the moment Cai Yasi locked Zhou Xiao's glass door, Zhou Xiao was reminded of the scene when Zhao Fanzhou confessed to her. Emotions surged, and she left Cai Yasi to clean alone, leaving Cai Yasi feeling inexplicable.
Professor Hu was very happy to see Zhao Fanzhou return to school, thinking he was rejoining to be his assistant for experiments. Unexpectedly, Zhao Fanzhou told him that he needed to apply for a leave of absence due to his mother's illness. Professor Hu was a little regretful but told him to definitely come back and continue being his assistant when he returned.
It was clear that Professor Hu was very reluctant to part with Zhao Fanzhou and told Zhao Fanzhou that he would wait for him to come back. Zhao Fanzhou held the application form for a leave of absence and walked on campus, passing by Zhou Xiao and Cai Yasi, who were talking and laughing. At this moment, his world became lonely again, and today he was someone preparing to leave everything behind, a farewell-taker.
When Xie Yixing and Zhu Lu were eating in the cafeteria, Xie Yixing asked Zhu Lu to go with him to England for a competition. Just then, Cai Yasi and Zhou Xiao also sat down to eat together. Because the dormitory management planned to arrange someone to share a room with Xie Yixing, Xie Yixing told the management that his roommate could only be Zhao Fanzhou.
This is how Zhou Xiao also found out about Zhao Fanzhou taking a leave of absence. At the airport for Beijing, Zhao Fanzhou's phone still had the pink phone case on it, and the screen was still the sweet photo of him and Zhou Xiao. Tears couldn't help but fill his eyes. In his heart, he didn't know how long this trip to Beijing would separate him from Zhou Xiao.
Zhao Fanzhou was very happy scrolling through his social media in the hospital room and seeing that Zhou Xiao's book had finally been published. His mother was clamoring for other flavors of ice cream, so Zhao Fanzhou buried his head and bumped into a little girl who also liked Conan, knocking her to the ground. For a moment, he felt that this little girl was particularly like Zhou Xiao, so he decided to buy her some ice cream.
The little girl didn't refuse his kindness, but she asked Zhao Fanzhou to help her turn the pages of a book for her to read. Zhao Fanzhou readily did as she asked. The little girl suddenly asked Zhao Fanzhou if there was someone he missed dearly and wanted to see. That single sentence filled Zhao Fanzhou's heart with Zhou Xiao.
He really couldn't help but want to go back and see Zhou Xiao, so he impulsively bought a ticket back to school. Zhou Xiao and Cai Yasi stayed in the bookstore for almost a whole day. Zhou Xiao was really looking forward to someone buying her book, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. After waiting for a very long time, no one still bought her book "The Double-Faced Man: The Bloody Forensic Doctor".
As soon as Zhao Fanzhou got off the plane, he came to the girls' dormitory. He was hoping to see Zhou Xiao again, but he waited for a long, long time and saw no one. Just as he was feeling a bit disheartened, he finally saw Zhou Xiao and Cai Yasi fooling around on their way back to the dormitory.
But he didn't want Zhou Xiao to know that he had secretly come back to see her, so he stealthily hid behind a big tree again. For a moment, Zhou Xiao also thought she saw Zhao Fanzhou, but upon closer inspection, there was no one there, and she felt that she was probably just seeing things because she missed him too much.
