Chapter Summaries

Nan Xingyu saw Xi Jin win the world championship and learned he had returned to the country, a month after she sent him a breakup message. When they met at Peking University, Xi Jin confronted her as she tried to escape.

• Nan Xingyu watched Xi Jin claim the men's 10-meter air pistol championship while her roommates gossiped about his rumored feelings for a girl he had waited to attend Peking University with.
• Nan Xingyu received Xi Jin's message telling her not to leave after class and recalled that she had sent him a breakup message a month earlier.
• Nan Xingyu spent class worrying about Xi Jin, then accidentally shouted his name after Lin Piaopiao jabbed her awake and was lectured by Professor Li.
• Xi Jin arrived at Professor Li's office to collect coursework, and Nan Xingyu avoided looking at him before following him out.
• Nan Xingyu tried to leave Xi Jin in the corridor, but he turned and told her that doing it there would work too.

Xi Jin took Nan Xingyu to his apartment and ignored her pleas to let her go, while she insisted she wanted to break up and claimed her mother had arranged a blind date. He threatened to keep her from leaving and teased her until he stopped just as she was about to give in, leaving her furious and wanting more.

• Xi Jin drove Nan Xingyu to his apartment and pinned her against the entryway wall despite her protests.
• Nan Xingyu said she wanted to break up, but Xi Jin demanded to know who she wanted to be with and warned her not to run off again.
• Nan Xingyu claimed her mother wanted to set her up on a blind date, and Xi Jin said he would meet the man and judge whether he could satisfy her.
• Nan Xingyu threatened to find a male model, and Xi Jin taunted her about preferring him and continued touching her despite her resistance.
• Nan Xingyu slapped Xi Jin, and he responded with possessive tenderness and told her she was not allowed to leave him.
• Xi Jin stopped at the moment Nan Xingyu was about to give in and asked whether she wanted it.

Xi Jin controlled and cared for Nan Xingyu after being apart for a month, while Nan Xingyu wished he would let her go. As Xi Jin prepared fruit, she remembered their first meeting at the estate, when he defended her from boys throwing firecrackers.

• Xi Jin coaxed Nan Xingyu into saying she loved him, then bathed her and cared for her afterward.
• Xi Jin served Nan Xingyu dinner and asked if she had missed him; she nodded, though he accused her of lying.
• Xi Jin told Nan Xingyu that he had missed her and went to cut fruit while she noticed he seemed thinner.
• Nan Xingyu remembered arriving at the Xi estate at age seven and following fireworks into a forbidden area.
• Several boys frightened Nan Xingyu with firecrackers, and Xi Jin drove them away with a toy gun.
• Nan Xingyu thanked Xi Jin by calling him a cool young master brother, and he turned to look at her.

Nan Xingyu remembered how Xi Jin had controlled and pursued her since childhood, and she wanted to escape their secret relationship. When Xi Jin proposed making their relationship public to prevent his father arranging a marriage alliance, she refused and asked to part on good terms, leaving him furious.

• Nan Xingyu recalled Xi Jin's threats, possessiveness, and sexual demands as she grew up, and the insult his uncle had directed at her and her mother.
• Xi Jin told Nan Xingyu to come straight home after class on Friday, then questioned why she was not jealous about his dinner with President Jiang's daughter.
• Xi Jin offered to tell his father about their relationship so they could be together openly, but Nan Xingyu feared the consequences for her mother and refused.
• Xi Jin said his father would arrange a marriage alliance if they kept their relationship secret, while Nan Xingyu insisted they had no future and asked to part on good terms.
• Xi Jin responded with anger, threatening Nan Xingyu.

Xi Jin reassured Nan Xingyu that he would stay with her, then spent the night demanding her affection and reminding her it was his birthday. At lunch, Xi Kun confronted Xi Jin about their relationship, and their argument ended with Xi Kun leaving after striking and threatening him.

• Xi Jin told Nan Xingyu that they could elope and never be apart, even joking that he would make her a specimen if she died.
• Xi Jin kept Nan Xingyu awake through the night, and she arrived at school exhausted the next morning.
• Xi Jin messaged Nan Xingyu that she had not wished him a happy birthday, and she replied with defiant stickers.
• Xi Kun asked Xi Jin whether he was still with Nan Xingyu and demanded that he end the relationship.
• Xi Jin challenged Xi Kun to kill them both, and Xi Kun slapped him, threatened Nan Xingyu, and left the restaurant.
• Xi Jin calmly wiped himself off and finished his fish after Xi Kun left.

Nan Xingyu found Xi Jin drunk and standing under the shower fully clothed, and he demanded that she say she loved him and would never leave before they became intimate. Later, she searched for ways to make her boyfriend give up on her, but told Xi Jin she wanted to celebrate his birthday at Haili Lao; an hour later, he regretted agreeing.

• Nan Xingyu returned to Xi Jin's apartment for her jurisprudence notes and found him drunk, fully clothed under the shower.
• Xi Jin kissed Nan Xingyu and pleaded with her to say she loved him and would never abandon him, then asked her to elope with him.
• Nan Xingyu went back to class, where Lin Piaopiao and Li Ziyan teased her about a mark on her neck and invited her to go out again.
• Nan Xingyu reflected on how entangled she and Xi Jin remained and searched online for ways to make her boyfriend give up on her.
• When Xi Jin asked what she was searching for, Nan Xingyu claimed she was planning his birthday and suggested Haili Lao, which he accepted.
• An hour later, Xi Jin regretted agreeing to Nan Xingyu's birthday plan.

Nan Xingyu took Xi Jin to a crowded hot pot restaurant for his birthday, where he reluctantly accepted the public seating and cooked for her. She sprang her planned surprise by arranging a loud birthday-song performance that left him visibly embarrassed in front of the diners.

• Nan Xingyu insisted that Xi Jin sit in the restaurant’s main dining area despite his demand for a private room.
• Xi Jin gave in to the crowded setting and sat across from Nan Xingyu as other diners watched him.
• Xi Jin cooked the hot pot food for Nan Xingyu while she ordered wine and traded suggestive remarks with him.
• Nan Xingyu joined the restaurant staff in singing and waving glow sticks when they placed a glowing birthday hat on Xi Jin’s head.
• Xi Jin realized Nan Xingyu had set him up as the diners watched and recorded the birthday performance.

Nan Xingyu publicly embarrassed Xi Jin at his birthday celebration, then pretended to be drunk so he would carry her home and care for her. As she reflected on their secret relationship and her plans to end it, she used her drunken act to turn the tables on him in bed.

• Nan Xingyu sang and danced on the sofa to embarrass Xi Jin during his birthday celebration, then urged him to make a wish.
• Xi Jin returned from the restroom and found Nan Xingyu pretending to be passed out after finishing a bottle of liquor.
• Xi Jin carried Nan Xingyu to the car while restaurant patrons recognized him, and she secretly watched him as they drove home holding hands.
• Nan Xingyu recalled their hidden relationship, the Xi Family's judgment, and her intention to part with Xi Jin when her mother retired in six months.
• Xi Jin bathed Nan Xingyu and carried her to bed, where she pretended to be drunk and began to tease him.

Xi Jin confronted Nan Xingyu after discovering she had pretended to be drunk, then became consumed by possessive thoughts about keeping her with him. He asked her to elope and, when she refused, suggested they continue their affair, leaving her to face his question about which marriage would be more realistic.

• Xi Jin caught Nan Xingyu pretending to be drunk, but waited until she fell asleep before taking away her bath towel and confronting her.
• Xi Jin teased Nan Xingyu about faking drunkenness and punished her until she admitted she had been pretending.
• While they were bathing together, Xi Jin tightened his hand around Nan Xingyu's neck, then released her when she questioned him.
• Xi Jin asked Nan Xingyu to elope with him, but she refused because she considered it unrealistic.
• Xi Jin proposed that Nan Xingyu keep having an affair with him if she would not elope, and asked whether it was more realistic for them to marry other people they did not love.

After Nan Xingyu admitted she did not know whether she loved him, Xi Jin declared that she belonged to him. She dreamed of the night she first became involved with him, recalling how he cornered and pursued her after returning to the Xi Family Manor.

• Nan Xingyu told Xi Jin she could not ignore her parents’ feelings, and when he asked whether she loved him, she said she did not know.
• Xi Jin released Nan Xingyu’s wrist and told her that she was his whether she loved him or not.
• Nan Xingyu dreamed of Xi Jin returning from abroad after winning a shooting championship and finding her hiding at the manor reception.
• After the guests left, Xi Jin pulled Nan Xingyu into his bedroom and reminded her of their earlier conversations about making love.
• Xi Jin embraced Nan Xingyu, kissed her, carried her to the bed, and pinned her hands above her head as she struggled.

Nan Xingyu dreamed about her first night with Xi Jin, then woke beside him and escaped his embrace to get to class. When Xi Jin asked whether she wanted him to attend his dinner date, she insisted it was no big deal, and he teased her about how he had “eaten” her the night before.

• Nan Xingyu dreamed about her painful first night with Xi Jin and woke beside him the next morning.
• Xi Jin pulled Nan Xingyu back into his arms when she tried to get out of bed, but she struck him and escaped to the bathroom.
• Nan Xingyu went to class, where Lin Piaopiao asked why she seemed so exhausted and had been going home so often.
• Nan Xingyu called Xi Jin during class to wake him before his dinner engagement, and he asked whether she wanted him to miss it.
• Nan Xingyu said the dinner was no big deal, and Xi Jin teased her about eating with another woman in bed and reminded her how he had eaten her the night before.

Nan Xingyu ran into her former internship supervisor, Jiang Yu, and agreed to join him and her friends for dinner while Xi Jin went on a blind date with Jiang Yuexi. Xi Jin later encountered Jiang Yu at the restaurant, unaware that Nan Xingyu was among the junior schoolmates he had brought there.

• Nan Xingyu recognized Jiang Yu, who had supervised her law firm internship, and Lin Piaopiao insisted she join him for dinner.
• Xi Jin picked up Jiang Yuexi for their blind date and remained distant as she tried to make conversation and asked him to teach her shooting.
• Xi Jin remembered teaching Nan Xingyu to shoot and laughing about how she had cried when he threatened her for missing the target.
• Xi Jin and Jiang Yuexi arrived at a restaurant, where Xi Jin ran into Jiang Yu and learned he had brought junior schoolmates to eat there.
• Jiang Yu asked Xi Jin where the junior schoolmates were.

Xi Jin learned that Nan Xingyu would not be home for dinner, while Jiang Yu’s dinner with Nan Xingyu and her classmates turned toward a possible matchmaking setup. At a business dinner with the Jiang family, Xi Jin excused himself to make a call after discovering Nan Xingyu was away.

• In the elevator, Jiang Yu asked Xi Jin about his girlfriend, and Xi Jin said she was at home before encouraging Jiang Yu to pursue the junior he had run into.
• Jiang Yu returned to the private room and sat beside Nan Xingyu, quietly watching her while Lin Piaopiao complained about her unsuitable suitors.
• Jiang Yu said the handsome man he had met was Xi Jin and confirmed that Xi Jin had a girlfriend; Nan Xingyu paused at Xi Jin’s name but carried on eating.
• Lin Piaopiao asked Jiang Yu what he thought of Nan Xingyu, while Li Ziyan cautioned her against playing matchmaker.
• At the other private room, Xi Jin ignored Jiang Yuexi and messaged the cook to prepare prawns without alcohol for Nan Xingyu.
• The cook told Xi Jin that Nan Xingyu would not be home for dinner, and Xi Jin left the table after making a toast to Jiang Zheng to make a call.

Nan Xingyu panicked after declining Xi Jin’s call while out with Jiang Yu, Lin Piaopiao, and Li Ziyan, then learned Jiang Yu knew Xi Jin. Xi Jin arrived and teased Nan Xingyu with details about their secret relationship, leaving her tense as Lin Piaopiao asked for his girlfriend’s name.

• Nan Xingyu declined Xi Jin’s call and tried to hide her worry from Jiang Yu and the others.
• Jiang Yu revealed that his friend Xi Jin attended Peking University with Nan Xingyu, and Xi Jin entered the private room moments later.
• Xi Jin sat beside Nan Xingyu and hinted that they were close, while Jiang Yu introduced her as Nan Xingyu, his junior from high school.
• Xi Jin told the group that his girlfriend was a Peking University student whom he had known since they were seven and tutored for the entrance exam.
• Xi Jin teased Nan Xingyu about sneaking out, and Lin Piaopiao asked him whether his girlfriend really attended Peking University and what her name was.

At a restaurant with her classmates, Nan Xingyu tried to hide her connection to Xi Jin and avoid his jealousy, but he took her home and confronted her about Jiang Yu. Xi Jin caught her lying about not knowing Jiang Yu, leaving Nan Xingyu trapped under his interrogation.

• Nan Xingyu panicked when Jiang Yu helped her and fled to the restroom as Xi Jin watched coldly.
• Xi Jin left the restaurant, then texted Nan Xingyu to come out and threatened to kiss her in front of everyone if she did not.
• Nan Xingyu hurried out, and Xi Jin grabbed her wrist and drove her home at frightening speed.
• Xi Jin dragged Nan Xingyu into the bathroom, doused her with cold water, and demanded to know where Jiang Yu had touched her.
• Nan Xingyu denied knowing Jiang Yu, but Xi Jin revealed he knew Jiang Yu had supervised her internship and challenged her to explain her lie.

Xi Jin forced Nan Xingyu to bathe, then asked her to marry him and threatened to tell her parents about their past. Nan Xingyu resisted him and struck him, and the chapter ended with Xi Jin challenging her claim that their relationship made her shameless.

• Xi Jin discovered Nan Xingyu had lied about her boss and forcibly washed her while she struggled and pleaded with him.
• Nan Xingyu told Xi Jin she did not want his love or to be with him, but she eventually begged him to stop and said she loved him.
• Xi Jin washed Nan Xingyu three times, dried her hair, and proposed that they get married.
• Nan Xingyu rejected the proposal, and Xi Jin said he would tell her parents she had slept with him when she was eighteen.
• Nan Xingyu slapped Xi Jin and accused him of humiliating her mother, and Xi Jin retorted that he had always offered himself to her.

Nan Xingyu begged Xi Jin to end their relationship and let her live independently, but he threatened her and refused to release her. The chapter ended with Xi Jin forcibly assaulting her while she continued to reject him.

• Nan Xingyu told Xi Jin she wanted to break up, and he demanded they marry in six months.
• Xi Jin grabbed Nan Xingyu by the throat when she said she did not want to be with him, then threatened that she could never leave him.
• Xi Jin asked whether Nan Xingyu wanted to be with Jiang Yu, but she said she only wanted to live her own life.
• Nan Xingyu begged Xi Jin to let her go, and he threatened to expose her to her mother and destroy her.
• Xi Jin shoved Nan Xingyu onto the bed and forcibly assaulted her despite her repeated demands to break up.

Nan Xingyu took the birth control pill Xi Jin had prepared, then hid in the bedroom when his father arrived. Xi Jin confronted Xi Kun over the family’s demands and warned him not to harm Nan Xingyu, ending by reminding him that Xi Jin was the only heir he had left.

• Xi Jin crushed a birth control pill in his mouth after Nan Xingyu refused it, then left the medicine box for her when she asked for it.
• Nan Xingyu took a pill and brought Xi Jin his vibrating phone when Xi Kun called; after Xi Jin said his father was outside, she locked herself in the bedroom.
• Xi Kun confronted Xi Jin about leaving dinner with Jiang Yuexi and ordered him to break up with the woman he loved.
• Xi Jin refused to end the relationship and threatened Xi Kun after he said he would make Nan Xingyu pay for being with him.
• Xi Kun called Xi Jin a demon, bringing back Xi Jin’s memory of his mother trapping him in a fire and saying they should die together.
• Xi Jin seized Xi Kun’s raised hand and told him he had no other heir who could protect his position as chairman.

Nan Xingyu listened as Liu Meili recounted the tragic history of Xi Jin’s family, including the death of his older brother, Xi Song. The story ended with a chilling rumor that Xi Jin had pulled out Xi Song’s oxygen tube.

• Xi Jin reassured Nan Xingyu after his father left, but warned her not to think about escaping him.
• Nan Xingyu met Liu Meili and spoke with her father, Nan Zhiping, during their family’s weekend video call.
• Liu Meili tried to arrange a date for Nan Xingyu, who declined and noticed a photo of the ruined greenhouse at Xi Family Manor.
• Liu Meili explained that Mrs. Xi had tended the greenhouse before going abroad to recuperate.
• Nan Xingyu asked how Xi Jin’s older brother had died, and Liu Meili said Xi Song had a rare blood disease, briefly recovered after Xi Jin was born to provide a transplant match, then died after lung complications.
• Liu Meili revealed the rumor that Xi Jin had pulled out Xi Song’s oxygen tube as he lay dying.

Xi Jin defended his relationship with Nan Xingyu to Xi Kun by presenting a plan to increase the Xi Group’s profits, while Liu Meili revealed the painful circumstances of his birth and childhood. Nan Xingyu remembered finding Xi Jin sitting on a bridge railing after he left the manor following a fight with his father, and rushed toward him in fear.

• Xi Jin confronted Xi Kun with a proposal to expand the Xi Group’s profits and said he would handle cooperation with Jiang Corporation, while refusing the marriage alliance.
• When Xi Kun accused Nan Xingyu of seducing Xi Jin, Xi Jin said he had been the one who seduced her.
• Liu Meili told Nan Xingyu that Xi Jin had been born to save Xi Song and had grown up neglected by his parents.
• Nan Xingyu recalled that Xi Jin left the manor after an argument with Xi Kun, who had said he would be better off dead.
• Nan Xingyu found Xi Jin sitting on the bridge railing above the river and ran toward him, afraid he would jump.