Go Go Squid!

When K&K only managed to get second place in the tournament, the members started quarreling on the bus. Feeling angry, Han Shang Yan gets down and ends up in an Internet cafe. He meets Tong Nian who is helping to look after the cafe for her cousin, Hu Dou Nan. Tong Nian immediately has a crush on Han Shang Yan when he steps into the cafe. Through devious means, Tong Nian manages to get Han’s WeChat number. She keeps sending him promotional messages for the Internet cafe hoping for a reply. But Han Shang Yan just ignores all her messages.

The next day, Tong Nian has to fly to Guangzhou for an online musical promotional event. She notices Han and his K&K team at the Guangzhou airport. They are there to attend a competition. Tong Nian tries to catch up with Han but they have already boarded a bus. After her event, Tong Nian rushes over to the gaming competition to try to look for Han. He notices her and they exchange a few words since he recognizes her as the girl from the Internet cafe. His team members assume that Tong Nian must be his girlfriend. After the competition, Tong Nian hears that Grunt is having stomach cramps. Feeling anxious, she sneaks back into the venue. A K&K team member, 97, notices her and lets her in. The members start referring to her as “Sister-In-Law”. Tong Nian then discovers that Grunt is not Han but another team member. On the other hand, Han thinks that Tong Nian is Grunt’s girlfriend and that she purposely flies to Guangzhou to watch them compete.

Tong Nian is invited to go for lunch with the K&K team. On arrival at the hotel, she is told to meet Han in his room. Once inside the room, she is questioned together with Grunt if they are in a relationship. This forces Tong Nian to admit that she is actually looking for Han rather than Grunt when she turns up at the competition and that she likes him. After clearing up the misunderstanding, they have lunch together with the team. She tells them that she is a graduate student as well as an online singer. Checks reveal that she has more than a million fan base online which leaves the youngsters impressed. However, Han appears indifferent and requests for a driver to send Tong Nian back to her hotel.

The next day, K&K is battling SP for the championship. Tong Nian is at the venue with her friend, Lan Mei, but they do not have tickets. Han Shang Yan allows his team members to admit Tong Nian. During the competition, Tong Nian sits next to Han Shang Yan which makes her uncomfortable as it will deepen the misunderstanding that she is Han Shang Yan’s girlfriend. She explains to Han Shang Yan that she should move away as it will create trouble between him and Ai Qing. However, Han Shang Yan tells her that her information is inaccurate as he is single and uninterested in any relationship.

It’s the Chinese New Year celebrations and everyone in K&K is going back to their hometown except for Demo. He has nowhere to go as his parents are divorced. Han Shang Yan brings him back to his house with Wu Bai. He thinks it will be good to have someone who can distract and make his grandfather happy. During dinner, when Demo offers Han a chicken drumstick, he turns moody and retreats to his room. The drumstick reminds him of the past when he was starting out with Solo, Ai Qing, Shao Fei, and Ou Qiang in the gaming field. It was a struggle then as they had little money and experience. They started out in Beijing and eventually moved to Shanghai. Han Shang Yan used his education trust fund set up by his late father to help with the team’s expenses. A knock on the door wakes Han Shang Yan up from his reverie.

On Chinese New Year’s Eve, Han Shang Yan and Wu Bai go together to pick up Grandpa Han from the airport. At night, Grandpa Han visits Tong Nian’s parents. They are old friends. The purpose of the visit is to matchmake Tong Nian’s cousin sister, Hu Yue Jiao, with Han Shang Yan. Han Shang Yan is forced to go with him into the house. When Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian see each other, both are completely taken by surprise. Grandpa Han thinks that Tong Nian will be a good match for his other grandson, Wu Bai. On the way to dinner, Yue Jiao, Dou Nan, and Tong Nian end up in Han Shang Yan’s car. Hang Shang Yan mentions to Tong Nian that there is no point acting that they are strangers because Wu Bai will be joining them for dinner and the secret would get exposed anyway. When Wu Bai turns up and Grandpa Han tries to matchmake him with Tong Nian, Han Shang Yan keeps quiet to enjoy the show.

On the first day of Chinese New Year, Grandpa Han orders Han to pick up Tong Nian and drive her over for dinner. Han goes over to Tong Nian’s house with fruits but her mother is not so welcoming while her father is more understanding. On the way to Han’s house, they stop by to do some grocery shopping with Demo. Han makes them dumplings for dinner. Tong Nian is also able to please Grandpa Han with her singing. Grandpa Han prepares a necklace as a gift for Tong Nian and asks Han to give it to her. After the new year holidays, all the team members are back at K&K Club. They find out that Demo had spent the new year with Han Shang Yan. An individual’s competition is going to be held in Norway and Grunt and 97 have been selected to participate. They will be traveling together with the SP team to Norway.

Han Shang Yan registered an account with an online music app and started following Tong Nian. She is ecstatic about it and calls Han Shang Yan. But he is already falling asleep then. Han Shang Yan informs Tong Nian that he will be flying to Norway the next day and also gives her his return date. On the flight to Norway, Han Shang Yan sits next to Ai Qing who is leading the SP team. He mainly ignores her for the duration of the flight. Ai Qing and Solo used to be lovers. But on the night before the finals of the national championship 10 years ago, Han Shang Yan already knew that Solo would quit the team after the competition for a wrong that he had done towards Ai Qing. Han Shang Yan was also angry that Ai Qing seemed to have forgiven Solo.

Han Shang Yan fights them off and then Shao Fei arrives asking him to calm down. There is still a lot of anger in Han towards things that happened in the past. Ai Qing had actually prepared a birthday cake for Han Shang Yan earlier. So, Shao Fei offers to bring it to Han Shang Yan. Han Shang Yan asks Shao Fei why he chooses to join SP instead of his team to which Shao Fei replies that it was where he started and he only knows Solo as team captain. Shao Fei also advises Han Shang Yan that he cannot be blaming Solo and Ai Qing forever for a mistake done in the past. In the competition, both SP and K&K are there to represent China. Shao Fei lost in the first round and Han Shang Yan offered some comforting words. Before the final, Ai Qing seeks out Wu Bai to encourage him. Wu Bai has always admired and liked Ai Qing since his days in high school. He hopes to win the tournament not only for the country but also for Ai Qing to personally witness his achievement.

When Han Shang Yan arrives back in China, Tong Nian goes to the airport to try to welcome him back. But she misses him and bumps into Wu Bai instead. Wu Bai brings her to their bus and she follows them back to K&K Club. During lunch, Tong Nian hears about reaction speed testing as a training method for the players. She offers to develop a software to help them out and works the whole night through to get it completed.

Tong Nian wants to show Han Shang Yan her software and so, they go back together to K&K Club. While Tong Nian installs the software and tests it out, Han Shang Yan returns to his room. But he falls asleep and by the time, he returns to the guest room, Tong Nian has been waiting for him. Han Shang Yan offers her beer while he tests out the software. It is Tong Nian’s first time drinking beer and she gulps it down. Then, she gets a little drunk and starts getting close to Han Shang Yan which makes him uncomfortable. Tong Nian then follows Han Shang Yan to his room when she is supposed to sit still. She notices the necklace Han Shang Yan collected for Han Jia Jia and thinks it is for her. Tong Nian grabs the necklace and then falls asleep in Han Shang Yan’s room. Han Shang Yan uses Tong Nian’s phone to call her friend to send her home.

The next day, Tong Nian recalls her embarrassing antics the previous night. She sends a message to Han Shang Yan to apologize and then suggests that they should break up. After all, their relationship is a fake one and she doesn’t want to trouble him anymore. Han Shang Yan’s stepmother requests for the necklace which is bought on Grandpa Han’s orders. But since he has given it to Tong Nian, he needs to pay back Han Jia Jia for it. As he is short of cash, he borrows from Wu Bai and tells Wu Bai not to say anything about the necklace. Tong Nian is feeling sad over the breakup. While Han Shang Yan agrees to break up, he also feels affected over the decision.

The CTF tournament wants to record a theme song and invites online singers for an audition. Tong Nian and Lan Mei are participating. Among the judges are Solo and Han Shang Yan. Han Shang Yan arrives late but is just in time to listen to Tong Nian. He suggests a song for her to sing and she sings it full of emotions. Tong Nian and Lan Mei are both chosen to be the singers as a result. Han Shang Yan falls sick and feels moody over the breakup. Grandpa Han wants to see Tong Nian as she has not dropped by for a while. On Tong Nian’s birthday, Grandpa Han insists that Han Shang Yan pick her up and drive her over to their house. Han Shang Yan agrees with the condition that Wu Bai follows him.

Upon reaching home, Wu Bai goes off and leaves Han Shang Yan with Tong Nian to entertain Grandpa Han. During their meal, Grandpa Han starts mentioning about marriage which leaves Han Shang Yan feeling frustrated. He leaves the table and Tong Nian tries to talk to Grandpa Han. She relates to him Han’s dream and experiences to make him understand his grandson better. Han Shang Yan hears Tong Nian’s explanations about him as she talks to his grandfather. Later, Han Shang Yan approaches Tong Nian and starts telling her more intimate details about himself. He informs her all his flaws and that all his time is spent on K&K. Han Shang Yan gives Tong Nian another chance to choose if she still wants to break up with him or otherwise given that he is not a romantic guy. Tong Nian chooses not to break up with him.

Both the SP and K&K teams make their way to Sanya for training. Zhou San is in charge of handling the event. She is the editor of CTF Weekly and also interested in Han Shang Yan. They have known each other for a long time. But Han Shang Yan has no interest in her at all. At night, Tong Nian messages Han Shang Yan for a chat but he is not the type who likes to communicate via messages. So, she suggests that they do a video call and just leave it on as they go about their activities since he doesn’t like to talk much. The doorbell rings and Zhou San forces her way in. She fawns over Han and tries to get him interested by mentioning that she can help Shao Fei. Being an editor, she can give Shao Fei more publicity to help him maintain his place in the team. Han Shang Yan gets angry over her unethical proposal and throws her out. But Tong Nian has seen Zhou San in Han Shang Yan’s room.

Zhou San finds Tong Nian sitting alone and invites her for a meal. But during the meal, Zhou San keeps telling Tong Nian that she is too young for Han Shang Yan and that they are incompatible. When Han Shang Yan arrives at the restaurant, he purposely shows Zhou San that he has a very close and sweet relationship with Tong Nian. When Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian arrive back at the hotel and stroll along the beach, they see Su Cheng having a serious discussion with Solo. Su Cheng wants back custody of Xiao Ai to which Solo says he will consider. Han Shang Yan asks Shao Fei to consider joining K&K because he knows SP might not be able to accommodate him due to his low rankings. But Shao Fei rejects him.

During the training session, Zhou San makes an appearance. Tong Nian feels a little jealous and finds out that she will often be around to monitor the training. As Han Shang Yan and Tong Nian spend more time together, she tells him about her projects and what she has achieved in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Tong Nian also accepts that Han Shang Yan has a busy schedule and often needs to work late. Thus, Han Shang Yan suggests that Tong Nian brings her laptop to his room so that they can have each other’s company as they work. After Tong Nian has left Sanya, Zhou San tries to hit on Han Shang Yan again but he rejects her outright. Back in university, Ya Ya is afraid that Tong Nian’s boyfriend might be a good-for-nothing fellow who is just lying to Tong Nian to impress her.

Sun Ya Ya finds it hard to believe that Tong Nian’s boyfriend is Han Shang Yan. When Tong Nian invites Ya Ya to play an online game together with members of the K&K team, then only she realizes that Tong Nian’s boyfriend is really Han Shang Yan. Ya Ya has been a long time fan of CTF since high school and is particularly fond of Shao Fei. Hence, Tong Nian asks Han Shang Yan to help her out. Tong Nian and Lan Mei are holding an autograph-signing session for fans. Han Shang Yan arrives a day earlier than expected from Sanya and surprises Tong Nian with his presence. After the session, Han Shang Yan brings Tong Nian to the university. Shao Fei is already there to give Ya Ya a surprise at Han Shang Yan’s request after Tong Nian asks him to help out. Ya Ya is ecstatic to meet her idols in person. Together with Ou Qiang, the five of them go back to Han’s house. Ya Ya asks Shao Fei about his past and what he has been doing since retiring 10 years ago.

The five of them go for a picnic. Tong Nian tells Han Shang Yan to open his heart a little to give space for himself and for her rather than always worrying about work. She holds his hand and asks him to concentrate on the present. Tong Nian also shows Han Shang Yan that she is wearing the necklace that he has given her as a bracelet. Zheng Hui’s mother is sick. He asks Tong Nian if her father could be kind enough to look at his mother’s ailment. Her father suggests Zheng Hui bring his mother to Shanghai for a checkup. They are also pleased to offer her a place to stay in their house while in Shanghai. Tong Nian’s mother is very fond of Zheng Hui and didn’t know that her daughter had gotten back together with Han Shang Yan. She doesn’t like Han Shang Yan and tells Tong Nian not to contact him again. Meanwhile, Solo informs Shao Fei that he is going to be demoted to the second team after the next competition. Shao Fei gives Ya Ya a ticket to the tournament after meeting her for a meal.

Tong Nian’s aunt tells Grandpa Han that Shang Yan and Tong Nian have broken up. Feeling anxious, he orders Shang Yan to send him to see Tong Nian’s parents that night. Tong Nian’s mother pulls Shang Yan aside and talks to him privately. She tells him that he is incompatible with Tong Nian and that her daughter is young and inexperienced. Hence, he should stay away from her as he will just end up hurting her. Shang Yan promises Tong Nian’s mother that he will do as she says. When Tong Nian finds out that Shang Yan has sent his grandfather over, she goes outside her house to look for him. But he is nowhere to be seen. Shang Yan sees her waiting for him but he chooses not to appear.

While Shang Yan ignores Tong Nian’s messages, he quietly goes to have a peek at her without her noticing. Tong Nian is clueless as to why Shang Yan is ignoring her and possibly angry with her. She goes to look for him at K&K Club the next day only to learn that he has gone to Norway. Shang Yan is in Norway as his stepmother is remarrying. Han Jia Jia pesters Shang Yan about his girlfriend and the necklace. He refuses to say much, leading his stepmother to guess that he has been dumped.

While Team SP wins the competition, Mi Shao Fei suddenly announces his retirement. Shang Yan is angry with Solo for not taking good care of Shao Fei. He starts scolding Solo but Shao Fei tells them not to fight anymore. Shang Yan tries to get Shao Fei to join him at K&K again but Shao Fei is not interested. He says that his score is too low and it will not do him any good to join Shang Yan’s team. Ou Qiang is sad that Shao Fei chooses to retire but respects his decision. Solo feels responsible and quietly doubles Shao Fei’s compensation by using his own money when SP terminates Shao Fei’s contract.

Shang Yan tells Tong Nian to forget him as he is not a good boyfriend and that she should spend her time doing something useful apart from dating. Feeling guilty for hurting Tong Nian, Shang Yan passes Lan Mei and her husband some money and asks them to use it to buy Tong Nian something to cheer her up. Lan Mei then tells Tong Nian about the money. However, Tong Nian doesn’t want any of it. When she hears that the team is at the airport en route to a competition in Beijing, she rushes there to return the money to Shang Yan. She tells Shang Yan that although their time together is short, she was happy while it lasted. While she doesn’t agree with his attitude towards relationships, she will still continue to support his team.