Recaps

After transmigrating into Shen Yu’s body, Shen Yu woke up kidnapped by Seventeen and Qingjiu, who offered him a place at his side. Shen Yu spat blood in Qingjiu’s face, and Qingjiu strangled him until a message from Brother Luo made him let go.

• Shen Yu recalled his transmigration, his mother’s suicide attempt, and the system that left him with an Everyone’s Favorite Buff before disappearing.
• Seventeen told Qingjiu he had impulsively kidnapped Shen Yu and proposed covering up the crime as an ordinary kidnapping.
• Qingjiu examined Shen Yu and offered him money, power, and status if he left Ancheng and stayed by his side, calling him Nineteen.
• As the sleeping pills made him drowsy, Shen Yu forced himself alert and spat blood and saliva onto Qingjiu’s face.
• Qingjiu grabbed Shen Yu by the throat and strangled him until a notification sounded; he let go and found a message from Brother Luo asking where he was.

Qingjiu left Shen Yu bound in a remote house with explosives and taunted Luo Ningsang with a countdown. Luo Ningsang reached the house and heard Shen Yu warn him not to touch the water vat.

• Qingjiu photographed Shen Yu after drugging and overpowering him, then told Seventeen to leave Detective Luo a surprise with explosives.
• Luo Ningsang ordered his team to search for Shen Yu, and Lu Xianchang traced Shen Yu's phone to a house in the old town.
• Lin Xinluo got word that Shen Yu had been kidnapped and went to help notify his family.
• Luo Ningsang's team reached the house, where Qingjiu sent a picture of Shen Yu tied to a chair and claimed explosives would detonate in ten minutes.
• Luo Ningsang approached the locked house alone and heard Shen Yu warn him that explosives were in the water vat.

Shen Yu recovered from the bombing and pretended not to recognize Luo Ningsang to avoid revealing that he lacked the original owner’s memories. After panicking at the crowd in his hospital room, he accepted Dr. Xie’s reassurance, while Luo Ningsang watched from a distance.

• Shen Yu told Luo Ningsang that the explosives were in a water vat, and Luo Ningsang broke into the room and freed him.
• Luo Ningsang carried Shen Yu away before the explosives detonated, then ordered his team to search for traces and pursue the culprit.
• Shen Yu woke in the hospital and pulled away from Luo Ningsang, pretending he did not recognize him.
• Shen Yu panicked when Dr. Xie, Xu Shenzheng, and others crowded around his bed, and Dr. Xie cleared the room.
• Dr. Xie reassured Shen Yu and asked whether he could call him Xiao Yu, and Shen Yu nodded.

Xie Shuyang explained Shen Yu’s injuries, memory loss, and suspected post-traumatic stress disorder, while Luo Ningsang and the others arranged to protect him. After Luo Ningsang left the hospital, Shen Yu revealed he had been pretending to sleep and vowed to kill Qingjiu before drifting off.

• Xie Shuyang introduced himself to Shen Yu, removed his dislodged IV needle, and found Shen Yu cold and wary of being touched.
• Xie Shuyang told Luo Ningsang, Xu Shenzheng, Lu Xianchang, and Lu Yanjin that Shen Yu had overdosed on sleeping pills, suffered a head injury and throat wound, and might have post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Xie Shuyang advised them to keep Shen Yu away from triggers and said he would seek medication and counseling options for him.
• Xu Shenzheng, Lu Xianchang, and Lu Yanjin persuaded Luo Ningsang to go home and rest while they watched over Shen Yu.
• After Luo Ningsang left, Shen Yu opened his eyes, blamed Qingjiu for his condition, and fell asleep dreaming of killing him.

Lin Xinluo discovered that Aunt Jiang had died after attempting to kill Shen Yu, and Luo Ningsang decided to close the case as a suicide without questioning Shen Yu. While Shen Yu recovered in the hospital, nurse Kong Zhaoyue treated him, and the system played music to soothe him.

• Lin Xinluo found Aunt Jiang dead at home, with signs that she had tried to poison Shen Yu and then taken her own life.
• Lin Xinluo’s investigation found Shen Yu’s blood on a fruit knife and evidence that Aunt Jiang had induced vomiting and regularly bought sleeping pills.
• Luo Ningsang decided not to question Shen Yu because he had forgotten what happened, and he ordered the case closed as a suicide.
• Kong Zhaoyue inserted Shen Yu’s IV while he was awake, and Shen Yu was impressed by how little it hurt.
• Shen Yu asked the system to talk, then chose soothing music to calm himself in the quiet hospital ward.

As Shen Yu recovered in the hospital, he grew comfortable with Lu Yanjin and the others, who told him that the boss was his older brother. Shen Yu accepted the story and agreed to stay with the captain after leaving the hospital, then called the men by the brotherly names they wanted to hear.

• Lu Yanjin changed Shen Yu's dressing, and Shen Yu tugged his sleeve to ask him to stay; Lu Yanjin sat beside him quietly.
• Lu Xianchang and Xu Shenzheng entered and found Lu Yanjin keeping Shen Yu company, then teased him about neglecting his watch.
• Lu Xianchang brought Shen Yu a meal and explained that the boss had made fish soup because Shen Yu liked it.
• Shen Yu asked why the boss treated him so well, and Xu Shenzheng and Lu Xianchang told him they were blood brothers with different parents.
• Lu Xianchang explained that Shen Yu should stay with the captain after leaving the hospital and learn self-defense; Shen Yu agreed.
• Xu Shenzheng, Lu Xianchang, and Lu Yanjin asked Shen Yu to call them brothers, and he quietly called them Brother Zheng, Brother Xian, and Brother Jin.

After half a month without recovering his memory, Shen Yu was cleared to leave the hospital. His companions gave him a new phone and individual gifts, which he accepted after the system reassured him that the original owner wanted him to live in his place.

• Xie Shuyang cleared Shen Yu for discharge and gave him instructions for his recovery.
• Xie Shuyang told Luo Ningsang that a psychological expert was available to meet that afternoon.
• Lin Xinluo presented Shen Yu with a new phone from the group to replace the one confiscated as evidence.
• The system reassured Shen Yu that the original owner had wanted him to live in his place and accept the others' kindness.
• Shen Yu thanked the group and called Lin Xinluo Sister Luoluo after she promised him a computer.
• Lu Yanjin gave Shen Yu a ruby safety talisman, and Lu Xianchang gave him a watch, receiving affectionate forms of address in return.

Shen Yu visited Bright Insight Private Detective Agency after Luo Ningsang’s unprepared home forced the group to change plans, where he discovered a gruesome murder case that seemed familiar. He accepted a case consultant credential and agreed to help investigate while Luo Ningsang hurriedly prepared the house.

• Xu Shenzheng brought Shen Yu, Lin Xinluo, and Lu Xianchang to Bright Insight Private Detective Agency instead of Luo Ningsang’s home, claiming its righteous energy would help Shen Yu recover.
• Shen Yu calmly accepted the excuse and entered the agency, where Liu Wenzhang greeted him and Lin Xinluo showed him into the private office.
• Shen Yu read the file on the torture-murder of Jiang Lian and studied crime-scene photographs, recognizing that the killer’s method seemed familiar.
• Lin Xinluo offered Shen Yu a prepared case consultant credential, and he agreed to work on the investigation.
• Luo Ningsang bought supplies and tidied her home with Lu Yanjin, believing Shen Yu might be thinking of her.

Lin Xinluo and Shen Yu confronted Bai Xiaofan when he arrived at the Police Bureau with Ji Jingxing, who appeared to be taking the fall for a murder. Shen Yu remembered Bai torturing a stray cat and suspected he had committed the same kind of killing, while Bai became fixated on him; the chapter ended with Shen Yu asking Luo Ningsang to help find evidence.

• Liu Wenzhang told Lin Xinluo that a killer had turned himself in with Bai Xiaofan, who would only speak to Luo Ningsang.
• Lin Xinluo confronted Bai Xiaofan with her gun, and Shen Yu recognized him as the man he had caught torturing a stray cat.
• Shen Yu's memory returned, and he noticed Bai staring at him possessively as Lin Xinluo and Xu Shenzheng escorted Bai away.
• Luo Ningsang returned and learned that Bai Xiaofan and Ji Jingxing had attended Shen Yu's former class at Ancheng No. 7 High School.
• Shen Yu told Luo Ningsang that Bai had tortured the cat in the same way the murder victim had been killed and asked him to help find evidence.

Ji Jingxing repeated his confession to killing Jiang Lian while Bai Xiaofan taunted Luo Ningsang during questioning and threatened Shen Yu. Luo Ningsang fired at Bai Xiaofan, then agreed to let Shen Yu investigate the school with Lu Yanjin accompanying him.

• Ji Jingxing repeated that he had used Bai Xiaofan's phone to lure and kill Jiang Lian, but denied killing him when the officer questioned him directly.
• Bai Xiaofan mocked Luo Ningsang and revealed he had sold his parents' house to pay compensation for Shen Yu's school fire.
• Luo Ningsang shot Bai Xiaofan in the cheek after Bai Xiaofan threatened to involve Shen Yu, and Lin Xinluo dragged Luo Ningsang out and scolded him.
• Shen Yu appeared in the corridor, noticed the marks on Luo Ningsang's face, and asked what had happened.
• Shen Yu said he wanted to investigate the school with Brother Zheng, and Luo Ningsang agreed on the condition that Lu Yanjin stay beside him at all times.

Wen Wenyu, a young psychologist, agreed to lecture at Ancheng No. 7 High School after its principal described a series of student suicides. Shen Yu, Xu Shenzheng, and Lu Yanjin investigated the school, while Luo Ningsang was pulled away by news that the Bai family had bailed Bai Xiaofan out.

• Wen Wenyu met the principal, who explained that several students had died by suicide despite the school's efforts to prevent further incidents.
• Wen Wenyu declined to give a lecture that afternoon and agreed to speak at the school the next day.
• Shen Yu, Xu Shenzheng, and Lu Yanjin entered No. 7 High School to investigate, and Luo Ningsang arranged for Shen Yu to meet his friend at a coffee shop across the street.
• Xu Shenzheng accidentally sent Shen Yu's message calling Luo Ningsang "Brother," delighting Luo Ningsang and embarrassing Shen Yu.
• Lin Xinluo informed Luo Ningsang that the Bai family had bailed Bai Xiaofan out, so Luo Ningsang told Lu Xianchang to keep watch and went to investigate.

Shen Yu investigated rumors that Dream's Lament was connected to a wave of student suicides and learned that Jiang Lian was absent. After meeting Xu Yao, who treated him as an old friend, he told her he had forgotten their past and agreed to get to know her again.

• Shen Yu, Lu Yanjin, and Xu Shenzheng hid by the athletic field and overheard a couple discuss student suicides and Dream's Lament, a figure said to grant wishes sent at midnight.
• Shen Yu suspected Dream's Lament was linked to the deaths and asked Xu Shenzheng to have the couple watched and to check the deceased students' chat histories.
• Lu Yanjin offered to question students, but Xu Shenzheng volunteered instead, and Shen Yu told him to ask about Jiang Lian's recent activities and contacts.
• Xu Yao recognized Shen Yu and offered to help him return to school, but Shen Yu said he had forgotten his past and did not plan to come back.
• Xu Yao introduced herself and reached out to Shen Yu, who accepted her hand and agreed to meet her again as a new friend.

Shen Yu and his companions investigated rumors surrounding Jiang Lian’s death, while Xu Yao shared gossip about Ji Jingxing and Bai Xiaofan. After leaving the school, Shen Yu stopped for food and met a mysterious man in a dark green suit.

• Shen Yu questioned Xu Yao about Jiang Lian, and she described Ji Jingxing confronting him in the cafeteria before Bai Xiaofan intervened.
• Xu Yao spun a romantic rumor about Jiang Lian and Bai Xiaofan, which Shen Yu dismissed as pure slander before the group left.
• Luo Ningsang and Lu Xianchang revealed they were secretly monitoring Shen Yu as part of his gradual psychological care, and Xu Shenzheng joined them.
• At a jianbing guozi stall, Lu Yanjin refused Shen Yu’s request for spicy strips, but a mysterious man ordered them and greeted Shen Yu.

Shen Yu realized Wen Wenyu had been sent to assess him and confronted Luo Ningsang about whether he also thought something was wrong with him. Luo Ningsang tried to reassure Shen Yu and went to the coffee shop, but the private room was empty, prompting Lu Xianchang to call in the agency.

• Wen Wenyu followed Shen Yu and Lu Yanjin, revealed he was a psychological consultant, and began questioning Shen Yu despite Shen Yu's objections.
• Shen Yu learned Wen Wenyu's consultation fee was five thousand an hour and hurried to the coffee shop to keep the cost down.
• Shen Yu messaged Luo Ningsang, accusing him of arranging the consultation because he did not believe Shen Yu.
• Shen Yu asked Luo Ningsang whether he also thought something was wrong with him, and Luo Ningsang panicked before replying that they would stop and he would take Shen Yu home.
• Luo Ningsang, Lu Xianchang, and Xu Shenzheng arrived at the private room and found Shen Yu, Lu Yanjin, and Wen Wenyu gone; Lu Xianchang presented his credentials and demanded to see the manager.

Shen Yu was abducted from the café by Bai Yin, who hypnotized Wen Wenyu and Lu Yanjin with a pocket watch and took all three to meet his master, Bai Xiaofan. After finding Shen Yu's phone and reading his failed message, Luo Ningsang mobilized the police and prepared to pursue the kidnappers, while Xu Shenzheng warned Lin Xinluo that he could no longer be stopped.

• Wen Wenyu ordered drinks, and Shen Yu made Lu Yanjin drink bitter coffee despite his protests.
• Bai Yin returned to the private room, used a hypnotic pocket watch to incapacitate Wen Wenyu and Lu Yanjin, and forced Shen Yu out under threat to their safety.
• Bai Yin introduced himself and took Shen Yu through a staff passage to a van, saying his master wanted to see him.
• Luo Ningsang reviewed café surveillance, ordered police to trace the cloned-plate van, and found Shen Yu's phone beneath a sofa.
• Luo Ningsang read Shen Yu's unsent message, and Xu Shenzheng warned Lin Xinluo that Luo Ningsang had started cleaning his gun.

Shen Yu and his companions tried to escape from Bai Xiaofan’s men, but Bai Xiaofan caught Shen Yu just as they reached a public road. Bai Xiaofan kept Shen Yu captive and forced him to choose which of his companions would die.

• Wen Wenyu and Lu Yanjin opened the van doors and pulled Shen Yu out, then Lu Yanjin carried him away as Bai Yin signaled the pursuing men.
• Lu Yanjin ran through the alleys with Shen Yu while Wen Wenyu followed, and Shen Yu guided them toward a road by following overhead wires.
• Bai Yin stopped Lu Yanjin with a finger snap, but Lu Yanjin resisted long enough to shove Shen Yu toward safety.
• Bai Xiaofan caught Shen Yu, while Bai Yin subdued Lu Yanjin and the men in black dragged out the injured, unconscious Wen Wenyu at gunpoint.
• Shen Yu offered to go with Bai Xiaofan if he released his companions, then threatened to kill himself if Bai Xiaofan gave him a chance.
• Bai Xiaofan refused to release everyone and demanded that Shen Yu choose which companion would die.

Bai Xiaofan abducted Shen Yu after Shen Yu exposed Wen Wenyu and Bai Yin’s involvement, while Wen Wenyu and Bai Yin arranged to frame Lu Changfeng. Luo Ningsang and Lu Yanjin learned clues about the abduction, and Lu Yanjin ended the chapter claiming he had seen who took Shen Yu.

• Shen Yu chose Lu Yanjin to live and deduced that Wen Wenyu was working for Bai Xiaofan, while Bai Yin’s surveillance had given him away.
• Bai Xiaofan injected Shen Yu with an anesthetic and carried him off, leaving Bai Yin to handle the scene.
• Wen Wenyu and Bai Yin argued, then planned to alter Lu Yanjin’s memories and make Lu Changfeng take the blame for the kidnapping.
• Police found Lu Yanjin and Wen Wenyu, and Wen Wenyu named Lu Changfeng before falling unconscious.
• Luo Ningsang confronted the Bai family, threatened Bai Xiaofan, and learned that Lu Yanjin had woken up.
• Lu Yanjin asked about Shen Yu, then told Lin Xinluo that he had seen who took him; she guessed Lu Changfeng.

Shen Yu woke imprisoned in Bai Xiaofan’s laboratory and recognized the drug used to control him. Bai Xiaofan punished him by draining the air from his display case, then held the unconscious Shen Yu and called him beautiful.

• Lu Yanjin doubted that Wen Wenyu was the person he had mentioned, while Lin Xinluo demanded evidence; Xu Shenzheng arrived and told them Wen Wenyu had woken up.
• Shen Yu realized Bai Xiaofan had kidnapped him and identified Feimikaki as the drug used to cloud his awareness.
• Shen Yu woke inside a sealed glass display case surrounded by strange specimens and laboratory equipment.
• Bai Xiaofan entered, scolded Shen Yu for removing the ribbon, and activated a device that drained air from the case.
• Shen Yu collapsed from suffocation, and Bai Xiaofan entered the case, lifted him into his arms, and admired him.

Wen Wenyu clarified that his attacker had disguised their memories as Lu Changfeng, while Luo Ningsang obtained access to Skynet and moved to surround the Bai Family. Trapped with Bai Xiaofan, Shen Yu fought back and stabbed him, then continued attacking as the laboratory door burst open.

• Wen Wenyu told Xu Shenzheng and Luo Ningsang that someone had altered his memories to make him identify Lu Changfeng as the attacker, and asked Luo Ningsang to forgive him.
• Luo Ningsang contacted Xiaoyuan, who provided hacked surveillance footage from Xingwu Street and access to cameras at the Bai Family's old residence, prompting Luo Ningsang to order a police deployment around the Bai Family.
• Chief Zhang grew furious at Luo Ningsang's deployment, while Feng Zijin learned that Suyuan had breached Skynet; Zhang then exchanged messages with an unidentified person about making the situation worse for Luo Ningsang.
• Shen Yu regained his strength, stabbed Bai Xiaofan with a fountain pen, and attacked him with broken glass until he cut Bai Xiaofan's neck.
• As the laboratory alarm sounded, Shen Yu remembered Wen Wenyu's words about a hidden dark side and drove the glass shard into Bai Xiaofan's chest just as the door was smashed open.

Lu Changfeng agreed to receive his estranged older brother, while Lin Qi and Detective Luo arrived at the Bai Family residence to rescue Shen Yu. After Luo Ningsang found Shen Yu injured and unconscious, a stranger tried to persuade him to kill Bai Xiaofan, but Luo strangled the stranger instead.

• Lu Changfeng ordered Butler Lu to bring his older brother upstairs and obtain information about the person his brother wanted him to save.
• Butler Lu, Lin Qi, and Detective Luo confronted Butler Bai at the Bai Family residence, and Luo used a search warrant to lead the group into the laboratory.
• Luo Ningsang found Shen Yu wounded and barely conscious beside Bai Xiaofan, who had lost consciousness from his injuries.
• Shen Yu recognized Luo Ningsang as Brother Ningsang before passing out in his arms.
• A stranger gave Luo Ningsang a remote and urged him to kill Bai Xiaofan, but Luo attacked and strangled the stranger when he realized the man was trying to manipulate him.

Luo Ningsang was accused of killing Liu Wenzhang, but he forced the Police Bureau to take him, Shen Yu, and the corpse to the hospital. Shen Yu woke from a dark mental state in intensive care, where Lu Yanjin had stayed beside him for three days.

• Luo Ningsang recognized the corpse as Liu Wenzhang, an agency member who may have been turned or may have been a mole, and suspected a fifth faction was targeting him.
• Butler Bai challenged the Police Bureau to arrest Luo Ningsang, and Feng Xingyi tried to handcuff him.
• Luo Ningsang cuffed himself to Liu Wenzhang's corpse and made Feng Xingyi take them to the hospital, choosing to go to the bureau for questioning afterward.
• Shen Yu recalled his fear of his past memories and the affection of those caring for him before a voice urged him to wake up.
• Shen Yu woke in intensive care, and Lu Yanjin pressed the call button after finding him conscious.

Shen Yu woke from his dangerous, violent episodes and learned that Luo Ningsang was being held at the Police Bureau. Believing Luo Ningsang had taken responsibility for Bai Xiaofan’s death, Shen Yu’s panic triggered a medical emergency, and Xie Shuyang sedated him while sending Lu Yanjin away to rest.

• Lu Yanjin removed Shen Yu’s restraints, and Xie Shuyang confirmed that Shen Yu was truly awake and stable enough to be transferred to a regular ward the next day.
• Shen Yu remembered seeing Bai Xiaofan dead and feared he had killed him, then noticed Luo Ningsang was missing.
• Lu Yanjin told Shen Yu that Luo Ningsang was being held at the Police Bureau while Sister Luoluo and the others worked on the situation.
• Shen Yu believed Luo Ningsang was taking the blame for Bai Xiaofan’s death, panicked, and set off the heart monitor alarm.
• Xie Shuyang ordered diazepam for Shen Yu, then sent Lu Yanjin away to rest and warned him not to return until he had thought through what to say.

Xie Shuyang watched over Shen Yu and began considering how he could become Shen Yu’s older brother, while Lu Yanjin joined Lin Xinluo and the others at the Police Bureau as they confronted Zhang Pushan over Luo Ningsang’s case. The chapter ended with the group realizing Zhang Pushan’s move to bring in an investigation team was part of their plan, while Shen Yu remained in the hospital under Dr. Xie’s care.

• Xiao Yun gave Xie Shuyang ointment for his bruised mouth, and he wondered why he felt so drawn to protect Shen Yu.
• Xie Shuyang asked a lawyer friend how he could legally make Shen Yu his younger brother, then watched Shen Yu sleep.
• Lu Yanjin arrived at the Police Bureau as Lin Xinluo mocked Zhang Pushan and Feng Xingyi defended him.
• Zhang Pushan announced that an investigation team would arrive that night and left after Lin Xinluo and the others refused to cooperate.
• Lin Xinluo explained that Zhang Pushan had called in the investigation team as Boss had expected, and Feng Zijin pointed out that the bureau had an insider.
• Xu Shenzheng asked where Shen Yu was, and Lu Yanjin said he was at the hospital with Dr. Xie.

Shen Yu escaped the hospital to find out what was happening and went to the residential compound near the office. After helping Chu Jingsong win a go game, he asked the older man for a private favor, leaving Chu Jingsong to assume Shen Yu was connected to people plotting against him.

• Xie Shuyang discovered Shen Yu had escaped after Shen Yu tricked Xiao Yun and stole Xie Shuyang's phone.
• Shen Yu caught a ride to the shopping street, bought clothes, and concealed his blue hair with a hairpiece.
• Shen Yu went to the residential compound and drew the attention of a white-haired young man with golden eyes.
• Shen Yu gave Chu Jingsong a winning move in his go game against Gu Chongan, helping Chu secure victory.
• Shen Yu asked Chu Jingsong to speak with him privately, and Chu followed while suspecting Shen Yu was tied to a plot against him.

Shen Yu asked Chu Jingsong to help clear Luo Ningsang, revealing that he had killed Liu Wenzhang and his brother had taken the blame. As Luo Ningsang’s investigation stalled, Lin Xinluo told him that Shen Yu had run off.

• Shen Yu asked Chu Jingsong to find out what had happened to Luo Ningsang, and Chu Jingsong revealed that he was in charge of the Police Bureau.
• Shen Yu admitted that he had killed the person Luo Ningsang was accused of killing, and Chu Jingsong promised to stand up for him.
• Chu Sheng delayed the case against Luo Ningsang for one more day, while Zhang Pushan urged him to resolve it sooner.
• Lin Xinluo told Luo Ningsang that Liu Wenzhang had no clear motive or close connections, and the restored footage appeared to incriminate Luo Ningsang.
• Luo Ningsang said he would find someone who could detect what was wrong with Liu Wenzhang’s body, but Lin Xinluo’s call from Xie Shuyang revealed that Shen Yu had run off.