Recaps

After deliberately spending the night with Gu Yanshen, Shi Zheng woke to find his favorability at -99 and a school forum post exposing her schemes. Facing imminent expulsion, she suspected someone important had orchestrated the leak, but an incoming phone call interrupted her investigation.

• Shi Zheng woke in Gu Yanshen's suite after their night together and checked that his favorability was -99.
• Shi Zheng recalled how she had changed the original plot by drugging herself and Gu Yanshen instead of pursuing Hua Jinchen.
• The system warned Shi Zheng that her scandal had been exposed and that she needed to resolve the expulsion crisis and complete the original host's wishes.
• Shi Zheng read the forum post detailing her rented luxury goods and relationships with rich heirs, and reasoned that a powerful person had arranged the evidence.
• Shi Zheng's phone rang just as the system began asking whom she suspected.

Shi Zheng rushed to Gu Yanshen for help after her homeroom teacher summoned her to the Academic Affairs Office over the forum scandal. When Gu Yanshen refused to take responsibility for her situation, she sat on his lap and directly asked him to help her.

• Teacher Wang summoned Shi Zheng to the Academic Affairs Office within half an hour because the school had noticed the forum posts.
• Shi Zheng learned that Gu Yanshen was in the Student Council office and went to seek his support before facing the school.
• Gu Yanshen said the Student Council was not at her service and that her predicament was largely her own doing.
• Shi Zheng sat on Gu Yanshen's lap and teased him about paying attention to her, while he struggled with memories of the previous night.
• Shi Zheng met Gu Yanshen's gaze and told him she was asking him to help her.

Shi Zheng provoked Gu Yanshen by invoking their intimate encounter, then gambled that his anger would keep him from letting her withdraw from school. At the academic affairs office, she challenged the school’s immediate suspension and demanded a disciplinary committee review, just as someone arrived at the door.

• Shi Zheng reminded Gu Yanshen that their bodies remembered the previous night and touched his hand, prompting him to fling her hand away and order her out as his favorability remained at -100.
• Shi Zheng reasoned to the system that Gu Yanshen’s anger would make him want to torment her rather than let her withdraw from school.
• Teacher Wang and the deputy director confronted Shi Zheng over the forum post and announced an immediate suspension pending further investigation.
• Shi Zheng cited school procedure and requested that the Student Council’s Disciplinary Committee review her case before any punishment took effect.
• The deputy director invited the person knocking at the office door to enter.

Su Qingqing argued that the Student Council and Gu Yanshen would not favor Shi Zheng, but Shi Zheng refused to accept suspension before the Disciplinary Committee reviewed her case and threatened legal and public complaints. A message confirmed that the committee had called an emergency meeting, leaving the deputy director wondering whether Shi Zheng really had a connection to Gu Yanshen.

• Su Qingqing delivered financial-aid review materials and told Shi Zheng that Gu Yanshen and the Student Council would judge her case impartially.
• Teacher Wang praised Su Qingqing and urged Shi Zheng to accept her suspension, but Shi Zheng insisted she would stay until the Disciplinary Committee ruled.
• Shi Zheng threatened to contact a lawyer, report the school to education authorities, and draw media attention if the school enforced the suspension unilaterally.
• The deputy director received notice that the Disciplinary Committee had called an emergency meeting to review Shi Zheng's case.
• The deputy director reconsidered Shi Zheng's claim that Gu Yanshen might help her and wondered whether they had an undisclosed connection.

Shi Zheng avoided suspension after the deputy director deferred to the Student Council’s review, then returned to class amid hostile gossip. A boy publicly offered her roses and his allowance, while Hua Jinchen passed by the classroom.

• The deputy director stopped Teacher Wang from pressing for Shi Zheng’s suspension and let her keep attending classes and living on campus until the Disciplinary Committee made a formal decision.
• Shi Zheng arrived late to class and ignored her classmates’ contemptuous whispers and a nearby girl moving her books away from her.
• After class, a yellow-haired boy offered Shi Zheng roses and promised to spend his monthly allowance on her if she dated him.
• Shi Zheng silently assessed the boy’s watch, shoes, and outfit as the classroom’s jeers faded.
• Hua Jinchen walked past the classroom with his friends on his way to the basketball court.

Shi Zheng rebuffed a boy who offered to support her, then declared that only someone like Hua Jinchen was worthy of keeping her. Hua Jinchen and his friends watched from outside the classroom, leaving everyone waiting to see how he would respond.

• Hua Jinchen spotted Shi Zheng in the classroom, and his friends urged him to pursue her while she was caught in a public scandal.
• Su Qingqing noticed Hua Jinchen watching Shi Zheng and felt uncomfortable about his interest.
• Shi Zheng mocked a boy who offered her a monthly allowance of thirty thousand, asking whether he could afford to keep her.
• After seeing Hua Jinchen outside the window, Shi Zheng said that a rich, handsome, and generous man like him might qualify to keep her.
• Hua Jinchen's friends teased him about Shi Zheng calling him out, while the onlookers waited for his reaction.

Su Qingqing intervened in Shi Zheng’s classroom confrontation, framing Shi Zheng as unreasonable and implying she had no business targeting Hua Jinchen. Shi Zheng challenged Su Qingqing’s authority to interfere or speak for Hua Jinchen, then asked Hua Jinchen directly what he thought.

• Su Qingqing stood up and urged Shi Zheng and the male classmate to resolve their dispute privately and preserve harmony.
• Su Qingqing criticized Shi Zheng for bringing Hua Jinchen into the joke, while Hua Jinchen said he did not remember her from the previous night.
• Shi Zheng asked Su Qingqing what the matter had to do with her and challenged her to prove she could speak for Hua Jinchen.
• Shi Zheng asked Hua Jinchen whether Su Qingqing could speak on his behalf.

Shi Zheng continued teasing Hua Jinchen, whose interest in her grew despite his low favorability score. After watching him play basketball, she followed him into the locker room to discuss something in private, leaving their conversation about to begin.

• Hua Jinchen told Su Qingqing he felt honored to be the subject of Shi Zheng's jokes, embarrassing Su Qingqing in front of their classmates.
• Hua Jinchen called Shi Zheng interesting after leaving the corridor, and his favorability toward her rose to 20.
• Shi Zheng watched Hua Jinchen play basketball, and he intensified his performance after noticing her in the stands.
• After the game, Hua Jinchen went to Shi Zheng, accepted the water she offered, and agreed to speak with her privately.
• Shi Zheng followed Hua Jinchen into the locker room, where he asked what she wanted to discuss.

Shi Zheng asked Hua Jinchen to help her avoid punishment, then challenged his playboy image by revealing that she knew he had never been intimate with his girlfriends. Hua Jinchen was left facing the fact that Shi Zheng had seen through his private defenses.

• Shi Zheng asked Hua Jinchen to speak up for her with the Student Council after the forum scandal put her at risk of being forced to withdraw.
• Hua Jinchen questioned why Gu Yanshen had made an exception for Shi Zheng and suggested the two might have left together the previous night.
• Shi Zheng denied having any relationship with Gu Yanshen, and Hua Jinchen dismissed the possibility of a secret affair.
• Shi Zheng sat beside Hua Jinchen and admitted she needed his help and protection, but also said he was not as in control as he appeared.
• Shi Zheng told Hua Jinchen that despite his frequent girlfriends, he had never crossed the line into intimate contact with any of them.

Shi Zheng used her knowledge of Hua Jinchen's secrets and flirted with him until he agreed to make her his girlfriend. She then used his jealousy as a reason to delete other men from her contacts, leaving Hua Jinchen as the only one.

• Shi Zheng told Hua Jinchen she had been watching him because she liked him, and he accused her of investigating his secrets before grabbing her wrist.
• Shi Zheng insisted she liked Hua Jinchen and praised his looks and generosity, prompting him to accept her as his girlfriend on the condition that she obey him.
• The system reported that Hua Jinchen's affection had risen to 25, and Shi Zheng began asking him for gifts and added him as a friend.
• Hua Jinchen noticed intimate names among Shi Zheng's pinned contacts and teased her about her busy social life.
• Shi Zheng claimed she barely knew those contacts, deleted them in front of Hua Jinchen, and told him he was the only one left.

Shi Zheng kissed Hua Jinchen repeatedly after he transferred her 100,000 yuan, despite his anger and the system’s warning that his favorability had fallen to zero. The two were interrupted in the lounge, and Hua Jinchen threatened the witness into silence.

• Hua Jinchen transferred Shi Zheng 100,000 yuan after she deleted the contacts he had ordered her to remove.
• Shi Zheng thanked Hua Jinchen with a kiss, causing his favorability to drop from 15 to zero and angering him.
• Shi Zheng challenged Hua Jinchen and kissed him again, then kissed him a third time as someone approached the lounge.
• A boy opened the door and saw Hua Jinchen and Shi Zheng kissing by the lockers.
• Hua Jinchen shielded Shi Zheng and ordered the boy to keep what he saw secret.

After kissing Shi Zheng, Hua Jinchen refused to make their relationship public but agreed to speak to the Disciplinary Committee to prevent her expulsion. Back in her dorm, Shi Zheng faced taunts from Li Wei and warnings from Su Qingqing, just as a new message arrived on her phone.

• Hua Jinchen told Shi Zheng not to expect their relationship to become public, but promised to speak to the Disciplinary Committee and prevent her expulsion.
• Shi Zheng's system reported that Hua Jinchen's affection had risen to 32, and she said his growing curiosity could be the start of liking her.
• Li Wei mocked Shi Zheng over the forum scandal and demanded that she drop out, while Wang Luning agreed and Su Qingqing studied quietly.
• Shi Zheng challenged Li Wei's authority to decide whether she should leave school and questioned whether Li Wei understood the school's disciplinary procedures.
• Su Qingqing warned Shi Zheng that the allegations could bring serious punishment, and Shi Zheng's phone chimed with a new message.

Shi Zheng learned that the Student Council would hold a disciplinary hearing into the Forum exposé, unsettling Su Qingqing and her friends. Shi Zheng thanked Hua Jinchen by message, and he reacted warmly while his friends noticed his apparent interest in her.

• Su Qingqing saw the notice for Shi Zheng’s Thursday disciplinary hearing and was shocked that the Student Council was investigating instead of issuing a penalty.
• Shi Zheng told Su Qingqing, Li Wei, and Wang Luning that Gu Yanshen had called the hearing to expose the slander and clear her name.
• Su Qingqing grew suspicious and fearful as Shi Zheng suggested that the investigation might uncover those who had plotted against her.
• Shi Zheng messaged Hua Jinchen to thank him for the hearing notice and tell him she missed him.
• Hua Jinchen saved Shi Zheng’s kitten sticker and smiled at her messages, prompting Zhao Yong and Huang Siyuan to tease him about having a girlfriend.

Shi Zheng received a warning instead of expulsion after the Student Council found some allegations unsubstantiated and vowed to investigate false claims. Gu Yanshen confronted her about Hua Jinchen’s intervention, and the chapter ended with him grabbing her wrist and trapping her by the door.

• Gu Yanshen led a disciplinary hearing that concluded Shi Zheng would receive a warning rather than be expelled, while the Student Council continued investigating the allegations.
• The council’s notice reignited forum speculation about who had spread the false claims and who had protected Shi Zheng.
• Su Qingqing read the notice and grew unsettled, unable to understand how Shi Zheng had persuaded Gu Yanshen to help her.
• After the meeting, Gu Yanshen told Shi Zheng that Hua Jinchen had asked him to handle her case fairly and demanded to know their relationship.
• Shi Zheng challenged Gu Yanshen about his concern and reminded him that she had asked someone willing to help her.
• Gu Yanshen grabbed Shi Zheng’s wrist, pulled her against him, and trapped her between himself and the door.

Gu Yanshen confronted Shi Zheng about her relationship with Hua Jinchen, then became jealous when Hua called her “baby” and offered to pick her up. Shi Zheng pushed Gu away and accused him of harassing her because she already had a boyfriend, but he responded with mocking laughter.

• Gu Yanshen held Shi Zheng by the wrist and demanded that she clarify her relationship with Hua Jinchen.
• Hua Jinchen called Shi Zheng, and Gu Yanshen ordered her to answer on speaker.
• Hua Jinchen called Shi Zheng “baby,” asked whether Gu Yanshen had bullied her, and offered to pick her up.
• Gu Yanshen hung up the call and accused Shi Zheng of pursuing Hua Jinchen as another target.
• Shi Zheng shoved Gu Yanshen away, declared Hua Jinchen her boyfriend, and accused Gu of harassing her.
• Gu Yanshen froze, then laughed mockingly at Shi Zheng's accusation.

Gu Yanshen confronted Shi Zheng about her intimate past with him and demanded that she break up with Hua Jinchen. Shi Zheng stayed silent rather than give up her conquest target, and Gu Yanshen released her with his last trace of reason gone.

• Gu Yanshen taunted Shi Zheng by revealing that he knew intimate details Hua Jinchen did not know.
• Gu Yanshen pressed his thumb against the wound on Shi Zheng's lip and claimed he was the one who was her man.
• Shi Zheng called Gu Yanshen shameless and struggled against him in the conference room.
• Gu Yanshen ordered Shi Zheng to break up with Hua Jinchen, but she turned away and remained silent.
• Gu Yanshen gave a cold laugh and released Shi Zheng.

Su Qingqing confronted Gu Yanshen about Shi Zheng receiving only a warning, but he defended the Student Council’s decision and rebuked her for questioning it. She noticed a faint handprint on his cheek and suspected Hua Jinchen had slapped him.

• After learning Shi Zheng would remain at school, Su Qingqing went to the Administration Building to find out why Gu Yanshen had changed the outcome.
• Hua Jinchen ignored Su Qingqing as he left the building, embarrassing her and deepening her resentment toward Shi Zheng.
• Su Qingqing questioned Gu Yanshen about Shi Zheng’s warning, arguing that the punishment was too lenient and might make the Student Council seem unfair.
• Gu Yanshen said the Disciplinary Inspection Department had reached its decision according to school rules and warned Su Qingqing not to make reckless accusations or she would be removed from the Student Council.
• Su Qingqing noticed a faint handprint on Gu Yanshen’s cheek and suspected Hua Jinchen had hit him.

Shi Zheng overheard Su Qingqing's conversation with Gu Yanshen and confronted Gu Yanshen over his possessiveness, refusing his offer to replace Hua Jinchen. Su Qingqing realized Shi Zheng had hit Gu Yanshen and resolved to get her expelled.

• Shi Zheng heard Su Qingqing apologize to Gu Yanshen and confirmed her suspicion that Su Qingqing had arranged the forum exposé.
• Gu Yanshen again told Shi Zheng to break up with Hua Jinchen and offered her even more money than Hua Jinchen could.
• Shi Zheng rejected Gu Yanshen's possessive demands and left, while Su Qingqing secretly watched from a corner.
• Su Qingqing concluded that Shi Zheng had slapped Gu Yanshen and that he had allowed it, leaving her resentful and humiliated.
• Su Qingqing decided to drive Shi Zheng out of school.

Shi Zheng called Hua Jinchen after ending her meeting with Gu Yanshen, and Hua Jinchen waited for her at Yunding Club while brooding over their suspected intimacy. When a message arrived, Hua Jinchen’s composure broke and he rushed out, leaving the others to follow him.

• Shi Zheng called Hua Jinchen and claimed she had needed to finish confirming details with President Gu, while Hua Jinchen gave her the address and room number of Yunding Club.
• Shi Zheng learned Hua Jinchen’s favorability had fallen to -50 and reasoned that he cared more about competing with Gu Yanshen than about her personally.
• Hua Jinchen drank alone at the club as the other guests speculated that he suspected Shi Zheng had been unfaithful.
• Hua Jinchen told the group someone was coming, then waited as they guessed who the visitor might be.
• Hua Jinchen received a message, reacted with fury, and stormed out of the private room while the others followed.

Shi Zheng went to Yunding Club to meet Hua Jinchen, where Zhang Hao and his friends cornered and humiliated her. She struck Zhang Hao with a liquor bottle, and the chapter ended as Hua Jinchen burst into the room to protect her.

• Shi Zheng arrived at Yunding Club and was led to the private room elevator after giving the receptionist Hua Jinchen's room number.
• Zhang Hao recognized Shi Zheng, insulted her, and demanded that she apologize and toast him and his friends.
• Shi Zheng pretended to submit while asking the System to summon Hua Jinchen and track his approach.
• After enduring Zhang Hao's taunts, Shi Zheng smashed a liquor bottle against his forehead as Hua Jinchen neared the room.
• Zhang Hao's friends moved to grab Shi Zheng, but Hua Jinchen kicked open the door and saw her surrounded.

Hua Jinchen rescued Shi Zheng from Zhang Hao and his companions, then publicly claimed she was his girlfriend while she called him a friend. They returned to the private room, where the others congratulated them and insinuated that Shi Zheng had used Hua Jinchen to solve her expulsion trouble.

• Hua Jinchen arrived as Zhang Hao threatened Shi Zheng, protected her, and rebuked Zhang Hao for harassing someone who belonged to him.
• Shi Zheng told Hua Jinchen that the men had tried to touch her, while Zhang Hao denied it and begged for forgiveness.
• Hua Jinchen left with Shi Zheng and met a group of people in the corridor, who greeted her and asked whether they were all right.
• In the private room, Shi Zheng called herself Hua Jinchen’s friend while Hua Jinchen called them a couple.
• Huang Siyuan and the others teased Hua Jinchen about winning Shi Zheng over, then congratulated them while hinting that Shi Zheng had relied on him to deal with her expulsion threat.

At a private gathering, Hua Jinchen angrily stopped his friends from insulting Shi Zheng, while Shi Zheng refused to perform and quietly left for the restroom. Her actions raised Hua Jinchen’s favorability to 15, but as she was leaving, someone hidden in the shadows grabbed her wrist.

• Hua Jinchen ordered everyone to stop discussing Shi Zheng and Gu Yanshen, then the group tried to restore the mood with songs.
• When the others urged Shi Zheng to perform, she modestly declined, and Hua Jinchen defended her right to refuse.
• Shi Zheng told Hua Jinchen she needed the restroom and left the private room.
• The system reported that Hua Jinchen’s favorability had risen to 15, and Shi Zheng remarked that a man’s guilt was useful.
• As Shi Zheng was about to leave the restroom, an unseen person seized her wrist from the shadows.

Gu Yanshen cornered Shi Zheng at the club and revealed his certainty that she liked him more than Hua Jinchen. He followed her toward Hua Jinchen’s private room while Su Qingqing secretly watched them.

• Gu Yanshen grabbed Shi Zheng from behind in the corridor, then released her and apologized when she complained that he was hurting her.
• Shi Zheng asked why Gu Yanshen was there and told him to stay away because she had a boyfriend.
• Gu Yanshen considered Shi Zheng’s taunt that he wanted to be a third wheel, then claimed she liked him more than Hua Jinchen, making Hua Jinchen the third wheel.
• Gu Yanshen offered to escort Shi Zheng, and she agreed to let him follow at a distance toward the private rooms.
• Su Qingqing hid behind a potted plant near the restroom corner and watched Shi Zheng and Gu Yanshen pass.

Su Qingqing secretly photographed Shi Zheng and Gu Yanshen in a way that made them appear intimate, planning to use the pictures against Shi Zheng. Outside the private room, Hua Jinchen confronted Gu Yanshen, claimed Shi Zheng as his girlfriend, and challenged Gu Yanshen to stay away from her, but Gu Yanshen refused.

• Su Qingqing photographed Shi Zheng and Gu Yanshen together and planned to expose the pictures at school.
• Shi Zheng found Hua Jinchen waiting outside the private room and worried that he had misunderstood her meeting with Gu Yanshen.
• Hua Jinchen mocked Gu Yanshen for appearing at Yunding and accused him of taking an unusual route past the women's restroom.
• Hua Jinchen ordered Shi Zheng to come to him, pulled her into his arms, and warned Gu Yanshen to stay away from her.
• Gu Yanshen said he would keep pursuing Shi Zheng, and Hua Jinchen challenged him to try.
• Shi Zheng tried to calm the two men while inwardly enjoying their rivalry.

Gu Yanshen followed Hua Jinchen and Shi Zheng into the private room and calmly sat beside Shi Zheng despite Hua's hostility. As the group discussed a possible trip to the racetrack, an unseen contact beneath the table left Gu Yanshen unusually tense.

• Hua Jinchen brought Shi Zheng back to the private room, and Gu Yanshen followed them inside.
• Huang Siyuan and Zhao Yong welcomed Gu Yanshen, while Hua Jinchen demanded that he leave.
• Gu Yanshen ignored Hua Jinchen and sat on Shi Zheng's other side, saying he had come to drink.
• Gu Yanshen rejected a waitress who approached him, and the group shifted to talking about an amateur race the following weekend.
• Shi Zheng asked Hua Jinchen if she could join them, and he absentmindedly agreed while keeping her close.
• Beneath the table, an unseen point of contact made Gu Yanshen stiffen as he drank his whiskey.