Chen Chou first met Xu Dong back when he and Zhang xiong were first preparing for the Capital Examination, when they all got drawn into the series of weird cases that led up to a failed coup and everyone in the capital nearly dying from a mist of red pollen.

Their relationship has only been like this since Chen Chou and Zhang Ping moved to Yiping County, though.

Chen Chou and Xu Dong's arrangement through the years, and how everyone else arranged themselves too.