Let's Tug It! Recap, Plot, Synopsis

Let's Tug It! Synopsis

Former football star Guo Yan gave up his dream due to an accident and instead enrolled in Mingcheng University. After starting school, he accidentally became popular on campus by challenging the "training model" Xue Tian.

This caught the attention of coach Lei Ming. The "unreliable" coach Lei Ming, in order to keep his job, assembled a team of eight new students who each had their own motives to start an unpopular club, the Mingcheng University Tug-of-War team.

A group of newbies with little to no athletic background, spurred on by Lei Ming's sudden inspiration, decided to challenge the Tug-of-War professional competition - the New Star Competition. In their first battle, they were miserably defeated and ridiculed.

These ordinary people who had no presence on campus started the "rise of the salted fish" battle, stumbling and growing along the way. Although they had different personalities, they shared the same goal, the desire for victory, and the spirit of not giving up or being afraid of losing.

While gaining friendship, how will they continue to follow their original aspirations and fulfill their promises to each other?

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Guo Yan is a naturally gifted king of sports, but currently, he is at a low point. Meanwhile, the "training model soldier" Xue Tian has an unwavering belief that he is the "strongest in the universe."

Due to a small misunderstanding, the two got into a physical fight in the public shower room, ending up running naked while drenched. They not only received punishment but also became a laughingstock on campus.

The sports teacher Lei Ming used to be the coach of the school's football team but was fired by the students due to poor performance. In order to avoid being fired, Lei Ming resorted to "coercion and temptation" to form a tug-of-war team.

Only Guo Yan refused him after three invitations. Lei Ming challenged Guo Yan to a tug-of-war competition, during which Guo Yan discovered that Lei Ming actually knew his high school best friend who had died unexpectedly.

The tug-of-war team was successfully formed but offended the football team during the interview process.

Lu Yao, the vice captain of the football team, took Zhu Ge away with his teammates privately. Xue Tian, who noticed something was wrong, intervened and rescued Zhu Ge, but he also fell into the other side's tricks since he was not good at football.

Guo Yan stepped forward at a critical moment. Guo Yan took over the matter for Zhu Ge and Xue Tian. When Guo Yan was guarding the gate, he vaguely revealed his "special ability".

Shen Junshan, the captain of the football team, and his men found the tug-of-war team. Shen Junshan's dominance shook the whole scene, but Guo Yan still took on the challenge with a nonchalant attitude, and the challenge changed from football to tug-of-war.

Originally just a private gambling match, but it became known to everyone due to the promotion by the football team. In the first game, the tug-of-war team couldn't fully execute the tactics from training, and both sides just relied on brute force, resulting in a disastrous defeat. Guo Yan pointed out the root cause of the failure with one sentence, and warned his teammates to maintain their standing posture and implement the tactics no matter what. In the second game, the previously agreed-upon decision was almost overturned, but under the leadership of Guo Yan, everyone quickly adjusted and eventually won the game. Xue Tian, who wanted to show off, had a large piece of skin torn off his hand, making the third game precarious. Xue Tian, who usually had a confrontational personality, handed over the position of the head rope to Guo Yan.

At the decisive moment, Xiong Xiaoxiao arrived at the battlefield dragging the war drum. The tug-of-war team slowly moved to the beat of Xiong Xiaoxiao's drum, and the team's morale surged, leading them to victory in the competition. Lei Ming organized a hot pot celebration and announced a new task of preparing for the Star Tournament. Xue Tian was caught by his sister to do a gaming live stream and missed the opportunity to travel with Xiong Xiaoxiao.

Next, the tug-of-war team prepared for the Star Tournament. During training, a heroic "female classmate" suddenly burst in and pointed out the unprofessionalism of the training, leading to her being chased away by Lei Ming.

On the day of the Star Tournament, when the tug-of-war team arrived at the competition venue, a serious problem emerged. The team did not qualify to participate in the competition due to their weight not meeting the standard.

Everyone had to quickly gain weight by eating watermelon and drinking water in order to weigh in. Soon the competition began, and they were up against the car manufacturing team. They didn't even know how to properly grab the rope and their confidence, which had been buoyed after beating the soccer team, was quickly shattered.

In the second match, the Beikou Town team was very good at using the rules of the game, frequently lowering their position and even sitting on the ground. The team was penalized for fouling, and they still couldn't win a single game.

In the end, everyone's hands were all worn out, and they were defeated and in a sorry state. A huge crack appeared in the team, with members blaming each other, and Director Liu cursing Lei Ming outside the dressing room. Soon, Director Liu came in and announced that the tug-of-war team was disbanded!

Guo Yan and Xue Tian cleared up a misunderstanding and worked together to strategize and recruit members for their team. However, they found out that each member now had their own troubles, so they helped them solve their problems. Before they could completely help the other team members out of their predicaments, they received news that the tug-of-war training hall was going to be demolished. Everyone worked together to stop the school workers from demolishing the hall. They went to Director Liu's office to argue but it was ineffective. It was not until the faculty meeting that the principal personally praised the tug-of-war team, and Director Liu had no choice but to agree to the team's reorganization. However, Lei Ming could no longer be the coach, and he was replaced by the devilish female coach Zhou Tong.

Although the team reorganized their tug-of-war team, no one could truly be happy after learning about Lei Ming's departure. In order to find Lei Ming, they began to collectively protest against Zhou Tong. Not only did Zhou Tong forcefully pressure them, but she also proposed to find a replacement for Gao Shan due to his absence, which made everyone rebellious. Xue Tian even led the team to go on strike. In the end, Zhou Tong gave Guo Yan 36 hours to retrieve Gao Shan.

Xue Tian secretly followed Guo Yan on the journey to Gao Shan's home, where they learned about Gao Shan and Xiao Mi's love story. In order to bring Gao Shan back to the team, they had to find a way to resolve the issue between Gao Shan and Xiao Mi. With the help of Guo Yan and Xue Tian's misplaced assistance, a series of comical events occurred.

All the team members gathered together, and Zhou Tong officially began her devil training. Meanwhile, Xue Tian led everyone in a rebellion against Zhou Tong to find Lei Ming. Zhou Tong reluctantly turned to Lei Ming for advice, and to her surprise, Lei Ming, despite being kicked out of the tug-of-war team, had not given up learning about it. Lei Ming told Zhou Tong about each team member's strengths, personality, and reasons for joining the team, which impressed Zhou Tong and thawed their previous hostility. Zhou Tong led the team to challenge the provincial sports university. The overconfident university sent out their second team, but it turned out to be a tough match, and the university's second team lost. Seeing the situation was not good, their anchor Shi Lei suggested a substitution and decided to play himself.

With the help of Xue Tian, Guo Yan regained his form and narrowly defeated the Provincial Sports University team. Everyone's confidence grew, and they began to look at Zhou Tong in a new light. Just as Zhu Ge's business was thriving and he was preparing to sponsor more equipment for the tug-of-war team, news came that his grandmother's pig trotter shop had been vandalized. Seeing his grandmother injured, Zhu Ge was emotionally devastated. Under the questioning of the others, Zhu Ge finally revealed the truth - he had been deceived into taking out a high-interest loan and now had no money to repay it. The members of the tug-of-war team felt guilty as they were still wearing the new equipment that Zhu Ge had just provided. Although Zhu Ge refused to involve his teammates and insisted on resolving the issue himself, the team secretly observed and attempted to help him.

Lei Ming received timely information from Wu Qing and reported to the police, avoiding a bigger crisis. The tug-of-war team was also commended by the school for punishing evil and promoting good. During the team building camping trip, Lei Ming officially rejoined the team, and everyone learned that Shen Junhai mistakenly signed up the tug-of-war team for the campus culture week, which excited Lei Ming to encourage everyone to do a dance performance.

Guo Yan and Xiong Xiaoxiao reconciled, and Wu Qing finally learned that Lei Ming's illness was entirely due to his own misunderstanding. Back at school, in addition to training, the team also stepped up preparations for the campus culture week program. On the other hand, Xiong Xiaoxiao ran into a problem as she missed a band rehearsal because she went on the camping trip with the tug-of-war team, and the band had already found a replacement drummer.

The tug-of-war team shone in the school culture week, and it was only then that everyone learned that Xiong Xiaoxiao had been fired from the band for missing rehearsal due to the team building with the tug-of-war team. Xiong Xiaoxiao pretended to be strong.

On the other hand, there were serious differences in leadership philosophy between Lei Ming and Zhou Tong, causing conflicts. Lei Ming suggested going to learn from the teams at the New Star Competition, but Zhou Tong strongly opposed it. The coach's division also led to a disheartened team.

Despite Zhou Tong's objections, Lei Ming took four people to the car factory to challenge them, only to suffer a crushing defeat. Lei Ming lost confidence, but after being guided by Guo Yan, Zhou Tong realized her mistake and helped Lei Ming by taking him to learn from others.

Under Lei Ming's guidance, everyone achieved victory. Upon returning to school, Gao Shan and Wang Shulun, who were already in their final year, faced the issue of finding a job. Gao Shan received an interview invitation from the renowned Wang Group in their home province and began preparing diligently. On the other hand, Wang Shulun was leisurely indulging in games every day.

On the day of the interview, Gao Shan missed it because Wang Shulun borrowed his phone to play games and he overslept. After learning about this, Wang Shulun felt guilty and wanted to help Gao Shan resolve the matter. Gao Shan was surprised to find out that Wang Shulun was actually the son of the founder of the Wang Group. Feeling deceived, Gao Shan became angry and the two of them parted ways.

The group arrived at Beikou Town, known as the "hometown of century-old tug of war." However, they found that the village had no atmosphere of tug of war. Coach Ding refused to admit that he had sent an invitation letter to Xiangming Chengda, and this turned out to be a misunderstanding. The group was puzzled and planned to leave, but Coach Ding informed them that a typhoon was coming and it would be difficult to leave the village for a few days, so they had to stay and treat it as a tourist trip.

For some reason, Coach Ding's grandson, Ding Yinan, insisted that Guo Yan was the tug of war god Xuanlong Daxia and even took a relic belonging to Guo Yan's friend. Helplessly, Guo Yan had to follow Ding Yinan to search for the treasure mentioned in the mysterious book, and unexpectedly uncovered a moving secret about Coach Ding.

The video of the tug-of-war team's challenge in Beikou Town has attracted widespread attention. Zhou Tong told Lei Ming that her task of promoting the team had been completed and she could leave at any time. However, Lei Ming was not happy about it and he gathered the team members to plan a fake show to deceive Zhou Tong into staying with the tug-of-war team.

On the other hand, Wang Shulun became increasingly busy and often arrived late for training. Gao Shan then found out that his own interview opportunity was obtained through Wang Shulun's compromise with her father. Feeling guilty, Gao Shan approached Wang Zhicheng and voluntarily gave up the internship opportunity.

Just as Lei Ming's performance was in full swing, the door of the tug-of-war gym was pushed open, and it turned out to be the former U23 champion who came to challenge them.

During the game, the Star City talents kept imitating Ming Chengda's tactics, leaving him unable to resist and defeated within two minutes. Xue Tian was unhappy when facing his uninvited brother-in-law. With the upcoming winter vacation and Xiong Xiaoxiao's avoidance, Guo Yan's mood was also low. The two met and Guo Yan proposed taking Xue Tian to the swimming pool to find inspiration. Xue Tian agreed and the two poured out their troubles to each other at the swimming pool.

After the tense review and final exams, everyone embarked on their journey home. Guo Yan's parents told him that his high school was about to be demolished for renovation and asked him to take a look. To his surprise, Guo Yan met Xiong Xiaoxiao on the campus.

Guo Yan apologized to Xiong Xiaoxiao, and they reminisced together about their high school classmate's death. Xiong Xiaoxiao's story also reminded Guo Yan of his memories of Lin Yu. He didn't know that Xiong Xiaoxiao would choose to sing, and it was all due to his inadvertent encouragement.

Lei Ming secretly brought skincare products to the hospital to visit his father, but his father refused to see him and even got angry with Fangzhou, who spoke up for Lei Ming. Years ago, Lei Ming gave up his spot at the school to Fangzhou and deceived his father, causing Lei Tianming to fall ill. Fangzhou only recently found out the truth and wanted to repay Lei Ming by getting him an opportunity at the Provincial Sports University, leaving Lei Ming in a dilemma.

Zhou's father subjected Mingcheng to rigorous training, causing everyone to suffer. Zhou's father was not only extremely strict with everyone, but also targeted Guo Yan and Pang Ziqiu, using words to mock them like needles. As expected, Guo Yan's performance in the women's team's match was affected when Zhou's father pinpointed his weakness. Wu Qing also learned that Lei Ming planned to give up the tug-of-war team to work at the provincial sports university. Zhou's father, who had always disapproved of "amateur teams" like Mingcheng, felt that he was beyond help and decided to take his team and leave.

In the pouring rain, Guo Yan and his teammates stopped the Qichen women's team's bus and completed Zhou's father's car-pulling test. During this process, they all entered the rope sense space together for the first time.

Ming Chengda's feat moved Zhou father and made Lei Ming decide to give up the opportunity to join the provincial sports university and fight with the team in the U23. The usually arrogant football team unexpectedly lost in the school league, because Shen Junshan's aggressive attack led to his injury, and the team that had always played around Shen Junshan also suffered a series of defeats. Shen Junhai decided to replace his brother on the field, win the game for his injured brother, and prove his own growth to Shen Junshan. The tug-of-war team responded one after another. With the help of Lei Ming and his teammates, Shen Junhai difficultly won the game, regained respect, and also reconciled with Lei Ming and the football team.

Xue Tian and the tug-of-war team attended Xue Jing's wedding and gave an enthusiastic performance. Meanwhile, Wang Shulun learned that his long-time crush was getting married today and let out a big cry from the audience.

After intensive and close training, even though Guo Yan was not in good condition, Ming Chengda easily defeated the second team of the Provincial Sports University and advanced in the U23 pre-selection match under the arrangement of Guo-Xue rotation in taking the position of the head rope.

Xiong Xiaoxiao's debut concert was canceled due to venue issues. To help Xiong Xiaoxiao and encourage Guo Yan, Xue Tian gathered the members of the tug-of-war team to use the tug-of-war gym as a performance venue, giving Xiong Xiaoxiao and Guo Yan a surprise. To get rid of Zhou Tong, Xue Tian gave Lei Ming two tickets to a haunted house to buy time for the concert. Lei Ming had planned to confess his feelings to Zhou Tong, but was scared out of his wits in the haunted house. Zhou Tong also unexpectedly learned about Lei Ming's true feelings.

Meanwhile, Xiong Xiaoxiao finally realized her dream of stepping onto the stage and gave the song she had written for three years to Guo Yan. Xiong Xiaoxiao recalled Guo Yan and Lin Yu from high school and touched upon the pain that Guo Yan least wanted to mention.

It turns out that Guo Yan's recent abnormal behavior was due to the approaching anniversary of Lin Yu's death. Guo Yan returned to his hometown to pay his respects to Lin Yu on the anniversary of his death, and unexpectedly ran into Lin Yu's parents, which was unbearable for him. On the other hand, Xiong Xiaoxiao recalled the anniversary of Lin Yu's death and told everyone about it, and they all understood Guo Yan's abnormal behavior and called him to persuade him to come back to the team.

Inspired by the encouragement, Guo Yan decided to face his inner demons. Lin Yu's parents gave him a letter left by Lin Yu, and Guo Yan finally learned that Lin Yu knew about his heart problem and still chose to play, it was Lin Yu's own choice. Guo Yan finally released his knot.

To test Guo Yan's determination, Xue Tian once again challenged him to a rope jumping competition. Guo Yan proved to Xue Tian that he would not give up, and the two reconciled. In the group stage, Ming Chengda's score was on the verge of elimination after several matches, and he had to win the last game to advance. Li Cai and Shi Lei, who had been observing on the sidelines, also noticed Ming Chengda's changes and were secretly amazed.

Lei Ming thick-skinnedly stayed by his father Lei Tianxiang's bedside, not leaving no matter how his father mocked him. Father and son reminisced about their childhood memories, and Lei Ming felt that he owed his father a lot. Lei Tianxiang gradually came to understand his son's efforts and urged Lei Ming to return to the game.

The showdown between Xingcheng Elite and Ming Chengda began. In the first game, Ming Chengda set up a suspicious formation and then used a tactical reversal to completely disrupt Xingcheng Elite's rhythm, winning the first game. Li Cai tore off his gentle mask and cursed loudly. In the second game, he personally took the field, but Ming Chengda only focused on defense, giving away the game to maximize the consumption of Xingcheng Elite's strength, with the intention of winning the third game. Indeed, the unexpected tactical setup worked, and Ming Chengda barely won the third game, defeating an opponent that was impossible to beat. However, at the moment of celebration, Wu Qing collapsed, causing Guo Yan to break down again.

In order to carry on Wu Qing's belief, everyone completed the head-shaving ceremony together and faced their arch-enemy, the Provincial Sports College, with seven against eight. Along the way, Ming Chengda's perseverance and unity also deeply impressed the Provincial Sports College. Ming Chengda's almost fearless persistence made the Provincial Sports College re-evaluate this opponent who they once looked down upon.

In the dark space of the Rope Sense, Wu Qing's heart, which had stopped beating, began to beat weakly again. His "return" miraculously helped Ming Chengda win a round. When the whistle for the second round sounded, the time and space turned to one year later.

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