The Seventieth Day

第七十天

大风不是木偶 · Da Feng Bu Shi Mu Ou · SD

Synopsis

Shao Wu is the kind of student teachers trust: diligent, responsible, and always near the top of his class.

Yang Shuyi is almost his complete opposite.

He sleeps through lessons, skips homework, spends nights in internet cafés, and seems perfectly content to let everyone believe he is wasting his future. Shao Wu should probably keep his distance.

Instead, he keeps finding reasons to stay.

Tutoring becomes shared meals, walks home, quiet concern, and the kind of companionship that slips into everyday life so naturally that neither of them notices when it becomes indispensable. Their youth unfolds against the familiar rhythm of late-2000s school life: evening self-study, bicycles, cheap street food, exam pressure, and the looming gaokao.

Then the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake changes everything.

Forced to shoulder responsibilities far beyond his age, Yang Shuyi grows up almost overnight. From high school into university and adulthood, he and Shao Wu remain bound together through grief, family obligations, distance, missed timing, and choices that repeatedly pull them apart.

Shao Wu understands his feelings long before Yang Shuyi does.

But loving someone is not the same as being loved in return, and some realizations take years to arrive.

The Seventieth Day is a slow-burning coming-of-age romance about first love, growing up too soon, family responsibility, separation, and two boys who become men before they fully understand how deeply their lives have already become intertwined.

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Project Details

Author: 大风不是木偶 · Da Feng Bu Shi Mu Ou

Native Title: 第七十天

Genre: Drama · Psychological · Romance · School Life · Slice of Life · Coming-of-Age

Tags: Coming of Age · High School · College / University · Modern Day · First Love · Friends to Lovers · Long-Term Unrequited Love · Slow-Burn Romance · Straight Gong · Sexuality Awakening · Devoted Protagonist · Family Conflict · Family Responsibilities · Grief · Past Trauma · Natural Disaster · Separation and Reunion · Teacher Protagonist · Social Realism · Homophobia · Character Growth · 1v1 · Happy Ending

Table of Contents

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Prologue + Chapters 1–20

• Prologue
• Chapter 1: Xiaoyaosheng
• Chapter 2: But He Didn’t Remember
• Chapter 3: Are You Hungry?
• Chapter 4: Exercise Book
• Chapter 5: Scratch Paper
• Chapter 6: Lianggao
• Chapter 7: Buying Water
• Chapter 8: A Hint of a Smile
• Chapter 9: A Very Long Reflex Arc
• Chapter 10: Copico
• Chapter 11: Technical School Is Pretty Good Too
• Chapter 12: Let Me Warm Your Hand
• Chapter 13: Absolutely Devoted
• Chapter 14: Yang Shuyi… Beat Someone Up Last Night
• Chapter 15: The Hospital Cafeteria Has Pretty Good Food
• Chapter 16: I Bought It for Him
• Chapter 17: I’ll Stay Here With You
• Chapter 18: Between Buddies
• Chapter 19: That Name
• Chapter 20: See You This Afternoon

Chapters 21–40

• Chapter 21: Sick
• Chapter 22: Wang Yujun
• Chapter 23: Everything Is Different Now
• Chapter 24: Winter Break (1)
• Chapter 25: Winter Break (2)
• Chapter 26: The Beginning of 2008
• Chapter 27: The Second Day of New Year (1)
• Chapter 28: The Second Day of New Year (2)
• Chapter 29: The Second Day of New Year (3)
• Chapter 30: Let’s Go Eat Malatang
• Chapter 31: Chat for a Bit While We’re at It
• Chapter 32: “Reserved Seat”
• Chapter 33: Enrichment Class
• Chapter 34: Smart?
• Chapter 35: Get Out
• Chapter 36: Why Should He Have To?
• Chapter 37: Weightlessness
• Chapter 38: A Hazy Night
• Chapter 39: May
• Chapter 40: May 11

Chapters 41–43

• Chapter 41: Birthday (1)
• Chapter 42: Birthday (2)
• Chapter 43: Birthday (3)

Chapters 44–61

• Chapter 44: June 17
• Chapter 45: “Not Forgiving”
• Chapter 46: His Cigarette
• Chapter 47: Spring Festival 2009
• Chapter 48: Can’t Catch Up
• Chapter 49: Make a Call
• Chapter 50: What a Huge Bump
• Chapter 51: Daoxiangcun
• Chapter 52: It’s All Brother’s Fault
• Chapter 53: Never Again
• Chapter 54: Tea-cher, Good-bye!
• Chapter 55: Go On
• Chapter 56: They Embraced
• Chapter 57: Humanities Class 1 Study Group List
• Chapter 58: Do You Like…?
• Chapter 59: I Still Have to Stay in Chongqing
• Chapter 60: 631
• Chapter 61: I’m Going Too

Chapters 62–78

• Chapter 62: 2011
• Chapter 63: “The Umbrella’s Crooked”
• Chapter 64: I’m Exactly That Kind of Person
• Chapter 65: Guide to Majors at U.S. Ivy League Universities (CD Included)
• Chapter 66: Shao Wu Understands All of It
• Chapter 67: Try It with Me
• Chapter 68: Only His Hand Could Draw Out a Trill
• Chapter 69: Chen Yimang
• Chapter 70: A Rank Stench
• Chapter 71: Don’t Be Foolish
• Chapter 72: Yang Shuyi Actually Called Him?
• Chapter 73: Why Did I Come?
• Chapter 74: Light Bends Around Massive Objects
• Chapter 75: Wangjiang Road
• Chapter 76: Disenchantment
• Chapter 77: The Strongest Connection
• Chapter 78: Dear Wu

Chapters 79–93

• Chapter 79: Weather Service
• Chapter 80: “Ulterior Motives”
• Chapter 81: Idiot
• Chapter 82: Invitation
• Chapter 83: Angry
• Chapter 84: Five Percent
• Chapter 85: This Is Yang Shuyi’s Umbrella
• Chapter 86: Don’t Push Me
• Chapter 87: He Didn’t Push Him Away
• Chapter 88: I Like You a Little
• Chapter 89: Pity
• Chapter 90: Report
• Chapter 91: Wail
• Chapter 92: I Was Selfish
• Chapter 93: Selfish, Cold, and Violent

Volume Five · Chapters 94 onward

• Chapter 94: Zhuhai
• Chapter 95: Lunar New Year’s Eve, 2015